Brad Garlinghouse serves as CEO and board member of Ripple Labs. He is an advisor at Handle. Before joining Ripple, he was the CEO of the file-sharing service Hightail. He was president of consumer applications at AOL from 2009 to 2012, and before that he held various leadership positions at Yahoo! Earlier in his career, he helped pioneer the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the board of directors of OutMatch and has also served on the boards of Ancestry.com and Tonic Health. He is a member of the board of directors of Raised In Space. He is also an angel investor. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Kansas and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard. He is an advisor to Linguastat.