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SVB Financial Group Facts

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Mission: Increasing innovative companies' probability of success worldwide

Target Industries: Technology, Life Sciences, Cleantech, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Premium Wine
Strategic Focus: Diversified and innovative financial services for companies of any size, doing business in the U.S. and internationally
Established: 1983
Nasdaq: SIVB
Employees: More than 1,500
Financials:  
  • 2011 Net Income available to common stockholders: $171.9 million
  • Q4 2011 Net Income available to common stockholders: $35.6 million
  • Q4 2011 Total Assets: $20.0 billion
  • Q4 2011 Total Deposits: $16.7 billion
  • Q4 2011 Loans (net of unearned income): $7.0 billion
  • Q4 2011 Total Client Investment Funds: $18.7 billion(Off balance sheet) 
  • Family of Funds: Exceeds $1 billion under management
 
Locations: Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. with 26 U.S. offices and international operations in China, India, Israel and the U.K.
SVB Clients: 
  • 50% of all venture capital-backed companies in the U.S. 
  • 600+ venture capital firms 
  • 70% of Businessweek's Top Entrepreneurs – 2011 
  • 68% of the Wall Street Journal's Top VC-backed companies - 2011 
  • 58% of the 2011 Venturewire FASTech 50 -2011  
 
Company Facts and Figures:   
Executive Team:   Greg Becker — President and CEO, Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Financial Group
John China — Head of Relationship Management
Brian Dennehy — Chief Marketing Officer
Mary Dent — General Counsel
Mike Descheneaux — Chief Financial Officer
Chris Edmonds-Waters — Head of Human Resources
Dave Jones — Chief Credit Officer
Harry Kellogg — Vice Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank and Head of Strategic Relationships
Joan Parsons — Head of U.S. Banking
Marc Verissimo — Chief Strategy and Risk Officer
Bruce Wallace — Chief Operations Officer and Principal Operating Officer
Ken Wilcox — Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank
Business Units:    
Silicon Valley Bank 
  Commercial Banking
  • Credit and global treasury management at every stage of business growth
  • Broker-dealer investment services via SVB Securities, a non-bank affiliate of Silicon Valley Bank
  • Corporate investment advisory via SVB Asset Management, a registered investment advisor and a non-bank affiliate of Silicon Valley Bank
 
  Venture Capital Services   Specialized banking services for venture capital firms and funds

  • Entrepreneur Services Group — Connects entrepreneurs to resources and people in the venture community and entrepreneurial ecosystem
  • Corporate Venture — Builds relationships with the venture capital arms of technology corporations
 
  Global Offices  
  • SVB Business Partners (Beijing) Co. Ltd. — Beijing, China
  • SVB Business Partners (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. — Shanghai, China
  • Silicon Valley Bank Representative Office — Shanghai, China
  • SVB India Advisors Pvt. Ltd. — Bangalore, India
  • SVB India Finance Pvt. Ltd. — Mumbai, India
  • SVB Israel Advisors Ltd. — Herzliya, Israel
  • SVB Financial Group UK — London
 
SVB Private Bank 
Personal financing solutions for venture capital and private equity investors

  • Refinancing executive loans, capital call lines, funding to support tax obligations, etc.
 
SVB Analytics 
Valuation, corporate equity administration services, benchmarking and insight

  • Fair market company valuations
  • Corporate equity administration services, including capitalization table data management
  • Technology and life science company benchmarking service
  • Proprietary research
 
SVB Capital 
Sven Weber, president

Oversees and manages more than $1billion of investment assets across four families of funds and special accounts

  • SVB Strategic Investors fund family — four fund of funds; invest in top-tier venture capital funds
  • SVB Capital Partners fund family — two co-investment funds; invest in U.S. venture-backed companies
  • SVB India Capital Partners — co-investment fund; focused on investing in India
  • SVB China Funds — a fund of funds and a co-investment fund; focused on investing in China and denominated in RMB
  • SVB Capital Separate Account Program
 
Other Funds Management 
Greg Becker, president, Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Financial Group

  • Strategic Investments

    • Gold Hill Funds — venture debt funds; SVB is a strategic investor
    • Partners for Growth — debt fund; SVB is the largest limited partner