Cloudbeds CEO and leadership

Richard Castle is the Co-founder and COO of Cloudbeds. Together with Co-founder Adam Harris, Richard has led Cloudbeds from a small startup to a company that powers over 20,000 properties in 135 countries worldwide. Richard’s first travel experience was with a backpack after high school when he traveled from Wakkanai, a city on the Northernmost tip of Hokkaido, Japan, to Okinawa, staying in parks, train stations, karaoke rooms, and homes from the occasional encounter with a Japanese citizen who would lend him a room for the night. Richard fell in love with travel and has been traveling and living abroad ever since. Having lived for years in Japan, Brazil, and the United States, Richard believes in incorporating different cultures and perspectives into the fabric of Cloudbeds. Richard wrote the first line of code for the Cloudbeds booking engine in a Brazilian hotel room two years before the 2014 World Cup to fix a problem he had as a traveler trying to find and book a pousada while traveling in Northern 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.

Richard Castle is the Co-founder and COO of Cloudbeds. Together with Co-founder Adam Harris, Richard has led Cloudbeds from a small startup to a company that powers over 20,000 properties in 135 countries worldwide. Richard’s first travel experience was with a backpack after high school when he traveled from Wakkanai, a city on the Northernmost tip of Hokkaido, Japan, to Okinawa, staying in parks, train stations, karaoke rooms, and homes from the occasional encounter with a Japanese citizen who would lend him a room for the night. Richard fell in love with travel and has been traveling and living abroad ever since. Having lived for years in Japan, Brazil, and the United States, Richard believes in incorporating different cultures and perspectives into the fabric of Cloudbeds. Richard wrote the first line of code for the Cloudbeds booking engine in a Brazilian hotel room two years before the 2014 World Cup to fix a problem he had as a traveler trying to find and book a pousada while traveling in Northern 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.