Gary Wang (executive)
Gary Wang is an American former businessperson who pleaded guilty for his former role as an executive at cryptocurrency firm FTX. Before co-founding FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried, he worked at Google Flights, building system for aggregating prices over millions of flights. Prior to FTX's collapse, he was ranked the 227th richest American in the Forbes 400, and the 431st richest person in the world by The World's Billionaires. Early life and education 
Wang grew up in New Jersey and graduated in 2011 from Cherry Hill High School East. He attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, where he met his future classmate and cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried in 2010. After high school, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied mathematics and computer science. At MIT, he was a member of Epsilon Theta, a coed fraternity with Sam Bankman-Fried. Career 
At FTX, he served as chief technology officer. He was the second-largest shareholder of FTX at the time of the collapse of the company. Wang owned 17% of FTX and 10% of Alameda Research, a sister firm of FTX and co-founded by Bankman-Fried. On December 18, 2022, Wang pleaded guilty in a plea bargain in the Southern District of New York to wire fraud and three counts of conspiracy involving wire, securities and commodities fraud relating to helping Bankman-Fried defraud FTX customers and for which he faces 50 years in prison. His lawyer, Ilan Graff, stated that "Gary has accepted responsibility for his actions and takes seriously his obligations as a cooperating witness." As part of his plea bargain, Wang testified in United States v. Sam Bankman-Fried that "with some simple tweaks to computer code," he helped Alameda Research take as much as $65 billion from FTX customers and that he "lied about this to the public." References 

Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American business executives
Former billionaires
Cherry Hill High School East alumni
1992 births