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Location

Obvious Ventures is located two blocks from The Embarcadero in San Francisco, on the northwest corner of Sydney Walton Park. If you see the red brick building where Pacific Avenue runs into Front Street, you're in the right place.

190 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94111

Brian Hamilton

Obvious Champion

Brian Hamilton is a seasoned fintech executive and business leader, with more than 25 years of experience in the banking, lending, payments spaces.

Brian is currently on the Board of Directors, and President of the CCBX fintech division, at Coastal Community Bank, one of the premier sponsor banks in the industry, enabling innovative products at companies such as Robinhood, Dave, Carta, Prosper and ONE/Walmart. A serial founder and entrepreneur, with deep expertise in domestic and international settlement systems and payment platforms, he has had successful exits to, and held senior leadership roles at Capital One, serving as President of their Merchant Services division, Wells Fargo and Verifone. Most recently Mr. Hamilton was co-founder and CEO of ONE which was acquired by a Walmart led joint venture in 2022. Prior to co-founding ONE, he was the founder of Azlo, a digital bank for small businesses, and helped to build out the BBVA Open Platform for sponsor banking services. Mr. Hamilton is an honors graduate of Oregon State University, with technical certifications from Wells Fargo’s commercial banking school and various industry groups.