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Richie Lai Profile

Richie is Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer of Bittrex. He previously served as a leader in the Amazon Information Security Team.

In this role, he managed a global 24/7 Security Operations Center responsible for Security Operations, Incident Response, External Threat Intelligence, Advanced Monitoring and Analysis, Vulnerability Management, Application Security as well as a development organization that supported all these efforts.

Prior to joining Amazon, Lai spent 12 years at Microsoft building up their security engineering and Internet crimes division.

Current Work

Co-Founder and CIOBittrex

Previous Work

Senior Security ManagerAmazon
2013-2017
Director of Vulnerability ResearchQualys
2009-2010
Principal Development ManagerMicrosoft
2003-2009
Security EngineerMicrosoft
2000-2003

Education

University of Central FloridaComputer Science
1994-1996
✎ Last updated Aug. 4, 2026