Executive record
Victor Chang
Victor Chang is Chief Information Security Officer at Backstory. The appointment was announced on May 27, 2026, per Business Wire.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Victor Chang, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The appointment
Announced May 27, 2026 · Source: Business Wire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Backstory appointed Victor Chang as Chief Information Security Officer, framing the role around global security for its AI answers platform.
Another 2026 appointment where AI is written into the mandate itself — the security-of-AI brief has moved from research teams into the CISO job description within a single hiring cycle.
According to the Business Wire release, Chang will lead compliance programs, infrastructure security and comprehensive cybersecurity strategy across the organization. Chang also said he will establish a security program on which the company's large enterprise customers can depend.
According to the release, Chang has spent more than 20 years scaling site reliability engineering, infrastructure and cybersecurity at companies in Silicon Valley. The release says he was most recently a senior security leader at Meta, directing security and technical integrations for its global mergers and acquisitions. The release says Chang's expertise covers compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, NIST 800-171, ISO/IEC 27001 and PCI DSS. According to the release, Chang held board seats at the Silicon Valley Information Systems Security Association and the Society for Information Management SF Bay Chapter at the time of the announcement.
The company says it has trained AI models on billions of sales interactions for more than a decade, letting sales teams ask questions directly within their existing AI workflows. The release says the San Francisco company is backed by Mubadala Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Akkadian Ventures.
The company: Backstory
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Backstory: 1 confirmed move on the record
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Victor Chang's, nearest first (8 of 23). The Technology bench
Michael Kipp, Chief Information Security Officer at ChurnZero
Philip Martin, Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Uber Philip Martin, Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Paras Malhotra, Chief Information Security Officer at Starburst
Chaim Mazal, Chief Information Security Officer at GitLab
Justin Henkel, Chief Information Security Officer at SolarWinds
Jeremy Powell, Chief Information Security Officer at Sumo Logic
Doug Bowers, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at MongoDB
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 5 months since the appointment was announced (May 27, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- August 1, 2026
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Victor Chang
- Who is the CISO of Backstory?
- Victor Chang is Chief Information Security Officer at Backstory. The appointment was announced on May 27, 2026, per Business Wire.
- When did Victor Chang become CISO of Backstory?
- The appointment was announced on May 27, 2026, per Business Wire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.Business Wire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at Backstory, May 27, 2026
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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