Partner, Valor Capital Group
Brian Brooks is a long-term partner of Valor, member of the Strategic Board of Advisors, and has recently joined the firm as a full-time Partner.
He is a globally recognized leader in financial technology and financial services. Brian served as the CEO of Bitfury, one the largest crypto miners in the world. Prior to joining Bitfury, he was the CEO of Binance US.
He most recently served as Acting U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, where he was the administrator of the federal banking system and the chief executive of the 3,500-employee federal agency responsible for chartering and supervising banks comprising 70 percent of all banking activity in the United States. Brooks was often referred to as the “first fintech Comptroller” and “CryptoComptroller” for his focus on financial innovation.
Brooks’s background before leading the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency included serving as Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase, the largest digital asset exchange in the United States; executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Fannie Mae, the $3.2 trillion housing finance giant; vice chairman of OneWest Bank, a regional bank based in Southern California; and Washington, D.C. managing partner of global law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP.
Brooks’s board experience includes service on the boards of directors of Fannie Mae; Avant, Inc., a major marketplace lending platform; and Spring Labs, a blockchain-enabled digital credit bureau; and numerous nonprofit boards. He has also been an advisor to and/or early stage investor in EarnUp, TextIQ, LoanSnap, and other technology companies. He holds an A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago.