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Ripple Board of Directors
5 Board of directors
Ripple has 5 board of directors, including Asheesh Birla.
Name | Firm | Work History | Other Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
Asheesh Birla | Asheesh Birla is a Board Member at Ripple. | Ripple | |
Christian Larsen | Chris Larsen is Executive Chairman of Ripple’s board of directors. He is a co-founder and former CEO of Ripple. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly-traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making E-LOAN the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. | Ripple | |
David Link | David Link is a payments and banking innovator with nearly three decades’ experience in the Financial Services industry. David spent 26 years in various leadership positions internationally with Accenture, including Managing Director in Accenture’s Financial Services practice. Through his extensive knowledge of the finance space, David recognises the need for growth and innovation in payments. Taking this to market, David founded Verrency, a global fintech company that provides ‘innovation-as-a-service’, enabling issuers to deliver the latest payment capabilities fast and cost effectively through their existing payments infrastructure. By giving its consumers unprecedented flexibility and control over how they pay, Verrency’s cutting-edge features drive growth and increase customer satisfaction. Verrency also enables innovation across the payments ecosystem, providing fintechs and other innovative payment services the ability to be easily connected and distributed through issuers at scale. In addition, David serves as an Honorary Fellow within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the prestigious University of Melbourne, as the Chair of the Australian Centre for Financial studies ‘Funding Australia’s Future IV’ and sits on a number of boards and advisory boards. | Ripple | |
Morris Miller | Morris Miller & Matt Rhodes-Kropf formed Tectonic Ventures in 2016 to invest in and act as advisors to founders, startups and established technology companies. Prior to founding Tectonic Ventures, Mr. Miller founded Sequel Ventures, LLC (Sequel - 2005) and Cutstone Ventures, LLC. Through Sequel, Mr. Miller invested in companies like Xenex Disinfection Services LLC, Golfballs.com and Adometry (acquired by Google). Mr. Miller co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting where he acted as Managing Director and Co-Chairman and helped build the company which now has annual revenues greater than two billion dollars. Previously, Miller formed a start-up company, Curtis Hill Publishing, a legal publishing firm that was the first to publish Texas case law on CD-ROM. Miller also held various positions at Matthews & Branscomb, which is now part of Cox, Smith & Matthews (now Dykema) San Antonio’s oldest and largest law firm. | Ripple | |
Zoe Cruz | Ripple |
Name | Asheesh Birla | Christian Larsen | David Link | Morris Miller | Zoe Cruz |
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Work History | Asheesh Birla is a Board Member at Ripple. | Chris Larsen is Executive Chairman of Ripple’s board of directors. He is a co-founder and former CEO of Ripple. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly-traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making E-LOAN the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. | David Link is a payments and banking innovator with nearly three decades’ experience in the Financial Services industry. David spent 26 years in various leadership positions internationally with Accenture, including Managing Director in Accenture’s Financial Services practice. Through his extensive knowledge of the finance space, David recognises the need for growth and innovation in payments. Taking this to market, David founded Verrency, a global fintech company that provides ‘innovation-as-a-service’, enabling issuers to deliver the latest payment capabilities fast and cost effectively through their existing payments infrastructure. By giving its consumers unprecedented flexibility and control over how they pay, Verrency’s cutting-edge features drive growth and increase customer satisfaction. Verrency also enables innovation across the payments ecosystem, providing fintechs and other innovative payment services the ability to be easily connected and distributed through issuers at scale. In addition, David serves as an Honorary Fellow within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the prestigious University of Melbourne, as the Chair of the Australian Centre for Financial studies ‘Funding Australia’s Future IV’ and sits on a number of boards and advisory boards. | Morris Miller & Matt Rhodes-Kropf formed Tectonic Ventures in 2016 to invest in and act as advisors to founders, startups and established technology companies. Prior to founding Tectonic Ventures, Mr. Miller founded Sequel Ventures, LLC (Sequel - 2005) and Cutstone Ventures, LLC. Through Sequel, Mr. Miller invested in companies like Xenex Disinfection Services LLC, Golfballs.com and Adometry (acquired by Google). Mr. Miller co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting where he acted as Managing Director and Co-Chairman and helped build the company which now has annual revenues greater than two billion dollars. Previously, Miller formed a start-up company, Curtis Hill Publishing, a legal publishing firm that was the first to publish Texas case law on CD-ROM. Miller also held various positions at Matthews & Branscomb, which is now part of Cox, Smith & Matthews (now Dykema) San Antonio’s oldest and largest law firm. | |
Other Seats | Ripple | Ripple | Ripple | Ripple | Ripple |
- Predict emerging trends
- See competitors' playbooks
- Stalk the smart money
- Identify tomorrow's challengers
- Spot growing industries
- Kill analyst data work
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