Vinny Lingham

Vinny Lingham is a serial entrepreneur and investor who is currently the co-founder and CEO of Waitroom. Vinny has also been a member of YPO since November 2015. Prior to that, they were the CEO of Gyft, which was acquired by First Data Corporation in August 2014. Vinny also has experience as a board member, having served on the board of The Bitcoin Foundation from December 2015 to October 2019.

Vinny Lingham is an entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the digital gift card platform Gyft and the bitcoin wallet Civic. Vinny also appeared as a shark on the South African version of Shark Tank.

Lingham graduated from Hudson Park High School and then studied information systems at the University of Cape Town, where they earned their B.Com. Vinny later pursued an executive education at Harvard Business School in entrepreneurial ventures.

Michael Gaylord - Technical Co-Founder & CTO, David Saxton - Head of Operations & BD report to Vinny Lingham.