Dennis Brown functions as a Senior Trade Finance Advisor in the International Group responsible for providing guidance and delivering tools to clients as they venture into cross-border markets.
Brown joined Silicon Valley Bank in 2010. He has experience in both trade operations and business development from the beginning of his banking career in 1981 as an export letter of credit analyst. He later cross-trained to other international functions including import letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and bankers acceptances. In 1997, Brown settled to a business development role and has since remained in this field.
Brown obtained a Bachelors of Science from the University of San Francisco. He resides in Cypress, CA but makes the Bay Area his second home.