Ethan previously worked as a senior software engineer at Uber, T-Mobile, Aurora Innovation, and Mighty Ai. Family ties to the Philippines combined with a desire to be a part of the good that bitcoin offers to the world led him to founding Pouch.
The Pouch team is based 100% in the Philippines, with a headquarters in Cebu City.
Pouch Philippines, Inc. was founded in 2022, by Ethan Rose, with the purpose of bringing the benefits of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network to the Philippines. Pouch is a fully remote company, with a physical office address in Cebu I.T. Park. Pouch is regulated by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as an Operator of Payment Systems. Pouch's parent company is registered as a US-based money services business with FinCEN.
