Bio

-Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Deputy Director and General Counsel. Part of the team that built the CFPB. -Trusted strategic advisor to Board of Directors and senior management on legal, public policy, compliance, and risk management matters. -Substantial corporate governance, policy affairs, and regulatory relations experience. -Former Officer on DC Bar Board of Governors and Board and Committee Member for several legal services organizations -Goal-driven leader with demonstrated success transforming and managing a complex organization comprised of sophisticated professional staff. -Successful developing and guiding diversity, inclusion, and belonging efforts in corporate and government settings. Meredith Fuchs is General Counsel of the financial technology firm Plaid, where she leads the Legal, Policy, Risk and Compliance functions. After serving as Deputy Director and General Counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Fuchs served as Chief Regulatory Counsel and led the enterprise regulatory, financial services, and loss mitigation legal teams at Capital One. Fuchs maintains strong consumer finance and banking industry relationships and drives well considered, strategic decisions. She has been a partner at a major Washington, D.C., law firm, Chief Investigative Counsel to a Congressional Committee, and a non-profit General Counsel. Fuchs maintains expertise in banking and financial services law, consumer finance (including fair and responsible banking, loss mitigation, privacy and data security, and marketing practices), financial crime, payments, administrative procedure, and information/technology law.