Summary
Brian Victor is a seasoned legal executive and General Counsel with over a decade of experience structuring complex finance and fintech transactions, regulatory strategy, and product-focused compliance. He has built and led legal teams at high-growth fintechs and legacy banks—most recently overseeing legal and compliance for innovative payments at Branch after roles as Deputy GC at machine-learning lender Pagaya and VP/AGC at SoFi where he served as de facto GC for SoFi Bank and led product launches from credit cards to crypto. Brian pairs deep structured finance and securitization expertise (top-10 ABS programs) with hands-on regulatory navigation before the CFPB, state AGs and federal regulators, and practical product counsel across data privacy and ML-driven lending. Known for translating regulatory complexity into commercial solutions, he repeatedly guides cross-functional teams through product formation, audits and negotiations of warehouse, repo and unsecured facilities. Based in New York, he brings a rare combination of Big Law pedigree and startup agility that helps legal strategy enable rapid product innovation.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer