Ripple appoints Brooks Entwistle as Southeast Asia MD

Ripple, the provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments, announced the appointment of Brooks Entwistle as Managing Director of Southeast Asia to lead and scale the company’s operations in the region. 

Based out of Ripple’s Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore, Brooks Entwistle brings three decades of senior management experience in both the financial services and technology industries, with the mission to drive digital asset and blockchain adoption in the region. His appointment comes at a time when the company is deepening and expanding its presence across this region for RippleNet, which includes 14 countries. 

Brooks was most recently the Chief Business Officer (International) at Uber, where he led its regional growth strategy, launching Uber in new markets and navigating through regulatory challenges across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Uber, he spent over two decades at Goldman Sachs, and was partner and chairman of the bank’s Southeast Asia business.