Ben Davenport is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at BitGo. He was the Co-Founder and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Beluga. He is a technology entrepreneur and investor who has been deeply involved with Bitcoin since mid-2011. Prior to BitGo, Ben co-founded Beluga, which was sold to Facebook in 2011 and became Facebook Messenger. Prior to Beluga, Ben worked in engineering at Google and Microsoft, and spent several years doing algorithmic trading at high-frequency firm Hudson River Trading. He holds CS degrees from Princeton and the University of Washington. He also serves as Advisor at SignalFire. He is an Angel Investor.