Richard Castle Co-founder, President and COO, Cloudbeds

Richard Castle is the co-founder, President and COO of Cloudbeds. Richard wrote the first line of code for the Cloudbeds booking engine when he was frustrated booking a pousada while traveling in Brazil. Richard holds degrees in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Japanese Language from the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a Blakemore Fellow and completed the 2006 - 2007 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Program in Yokohama, Japan. He later earned an MBA from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego in 2013. Richard speaks English, Portuguese, and Japanese. He splits his time between San Diego and São Paulo with his wife Tania.