Brad Chase is the Head of Liquidity Products at Ripple, leading teams building products and services that determine and deliver optimal liquidity for Ripple’s global customer-base in a cost-effective, robust and scalable manner. Earlier in his tenure at Ripple, Brad was a core contributor to the XRP Ledger, developing a simulation framework to test the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol and co-authored a paper about the protocol’s theoretical safety properties. Prior to joining Ripple, Brad managed quantitative development and trading strategy research teams in the high-frequency trading industry for closer to a decade. He holds Bachelor degrees in computer science and physics from Rice University, and a Ph.D. in quantum information and control theory from the University of New Mexico.