Conway Ekpo

Conway Ekpo is a Director and Associate General Counsel at Brex, an integrated financial solution which provides corporate credit cards, business cash accounts and spend management software to tens of thousands of other venture-backed startups and mid-market businesses. At Brex, Conway is the head of product legal for Brex’s spend management SaaS business line. He also manages the regulatory legal team responsible for advising on Brex’s numerous financial and technology products. He previously served as Brex’s Chief Privacy Officer where he was responsible for establishing many of the company’s privacy functions.

Prior to joining the fintech industry, Conway began his legal career on Wall Street, first as a large law firm associate and subsequently as in-house counsel at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley where he was an Executive Director in the legal department. He is also a member of the DC-based Financial Technology Association and the Rutgers Law School Fintech and Blockchain Collaboratory which bring financial regulators and private industry together to propose policy.

Conway is the recipient of numerous awards for his leadership within the legal community including honors from the New York City Bar Association, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and the Council of Urban Professionals. Conway earned his B.S. in engineering at the University of Kansas and his J.D. at Rutgers School of Law where he was Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He and his wife reside in Manhattan with their two children.