Brad Garlinghouse lands in Van Nuys days after an SEC settlement anniversary trip to Miami

Brad Garlinghouse flew from McConville Airstrip in California’s Santa Clara Valley to Van Nuys Airport early Wednesday morning, a 39-minute hop in Ripple’s Bombardier Global 6000 that covered just 34 nautical miles at an unusually low altitude. The brief flight, arriving shortly after 7 p.m. local time, followed a pattern of short Los Angeles-area movements over the prior week and a Miami-to-San Francisco leg on May 30.

The trip lands Brad Garlinghouse in the Los Angeles Basin the same week that the annual Crypto ExpoEurope conference is gearing up for its mid-June start in Barcelona — an event where Ripple is a headline sponsor and where the company is expected to showcase its latest stablecoin and cross-border payment integrations, per the conference agenda published by the organizer. California has also been a focal point for state-level digital-asset regulatory proposals this spring, with a hearing on a crypto framework bill scheduled at the state capitol on June 5, reported by CoinDesk.

Brad Garlinghouse has kept Ripple’s headquarters in San Francisco while maintaining a frequent presence in South Florida and Southern California; recent flights show repeated hops around Van Nuys and Santa Barbara. The CEO’s home base remains the Bay Area, but this midweek Van Nuys arrival suggests a working visit tied to industry events or investor meetings rather than a simple return home.