Founder & CEO
Austin Capital Bank

Erik Beguin is CEO and founder of Austin Capital Bank, which serves more than 1 million customers nationwide. Under his leadership, Austin Capital Bank has pioneered products including Fort Knox, the world’s first high-security banking platform built on proprietary closed-loop withdrawal architecture to combat the fraud pandemic, and CreditStrong, which helps consumers responsibly establish credit on their own terms.

He served as chairman of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Community Depository Institution Advisory Council; served a two-year term as member of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council; and is a former two-term appointee to the CFPB Community Bank Advisory Council.