Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He serves as the managing director of the Litecoin Foundation. As of July 2013, he also worked for Coinbase. Prior to joining Coinbase, he spent 6 years at Google working on YouTube Mobile, Chrome OS, and the Google Play Games platform. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.