Victor Chang

Victor Chang is the Chief Information Security Officer of Backstory, appointed in May 2026.

Backstory, formerly People.ai, describes itself as an AI answers platform for revenue leaders. Its newsroom lists the People.ai renaming and the Chang appointment among its announcements.

Career path

Chang's career covers more than 20 years of scaling cybersecurity, infrastructure and site reliability engineering at Silicon Valley companies. The supplied sources do not give start or end dates for any role before Backstory.

His earlier work includes leadership roles at Amdocs and at high-growth startups in fintech, autonomous driving and critical infrastructure security. CSO Online's 2026 round-up of CISO appointments described his Amdocs post as CISO, one of several senior security roles he has held.

Before Backstory, Chang was a senior security leader at Meta. There he directed security and technical integrations for the company's global mergers and acquisitions activities across all business units.

Backstory announced his appointment as CISO on May 27, 2026.

Remit at Backstory

As CISO, Chang leads cybersecurity strategy, infrastructure security and compliance programs across the organization.

The announcement linked the role to customer demand. As AI-powered platforms become part of enterprise revenue workflows, customers increasingly require rigorous security governance and compliance assurance before deploying them at scale.

Backstory's chief executive said enterprise customers trust the company with their most sensitive revenue data, made up of deals, relationships and execution intelligence. He cited Chang's experience with complex compliance environments and with securing mission-critical systems at scale as the basis for giving him the function as the company grows.

Chang described the appeal of the post in one line: "The opportunity to secure a platform that sits at the intersection of sales technology and AI is genuinely compelling," said Victor Chang. In the same statement he said he planned to establish a security program that Backstory's large enterprise customers can rely on.

Compliance frameworks and community boards

Chang's expertise covers several compliance frameworks: ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and NIST 800-171.

He also works with the wider security community. He sits on the boards of the Silicon Valley Information Systems Security Association (SV ISSA) and the Society for Information Management (SIM) SF Bay Chapter. In those roles he facilitates strategic knowledge exchange among C-suite executives.

Trade press covered the appointment. Backstory's site lists articles from ITDigest and City Biz, including City Biz's Backstory Names Victor Chang CISO as AI Revenue Platform Expands Enterprise Security Infrastructure.

The supplied sources do not cover Chang's education, published papers or conference talks.