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Silicon Valley Bank Receives 2009 Best of Santa Clara Award
Silicon Valley Bank has been selected for the 2009 Best of Santa Clara Award in the State Commercial Banks category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 — Ken Wilcox, CEO, SVB Financial Group
SVB CEO Ken Wilcox received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award in the Financial Services category in Northern California. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Wilcox and SVB were selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a gala event at The San Jose Fairmont on June 13, 2009. The program honors entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptionality in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
SVB Honored with Green Business Award for Finance by the San Francisco Business Times
Silicon Valley Bank was honored with a Green Business Award for clean tech innovation in the finance category by the San Francisco Business Times for its work financing cleantech companies. Silicon Valley Bank estimates it works with approximately half of all venture capital-backed cleantech companies in the U.S. and holds deposits for nearly 200 cleantech companies. The company manages more than $1 billion in cleantech client investments and offers cleantech clients a broad range of commercial...
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Silicon Valley Bank has been selected for the 2009 Best of Santa Clara Award in the State Commercial Banks category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
SVB CEO Ken Wilcox received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award in the Financial Services category in Northern California. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Wilcox and SVB were selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a gala event at The San Jose Fairmont on June 13, 2009. The program honors entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptionality in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
Silicon Valley Bank was honored with a Green Business Award for clean tech innovation in the finance category by the San Francisco Business Times for its work financing cleantech companies. Silicon Valley Bank estimates it works with approximately half of all venture capital-backed cleantech companies in the U.S. and holds deposits for nearly 200 cleantech companies. The company manages more than $1 billion in cleantech client investments and offers cleantech clients a broad range of commercial banking products and services. The San Francisco Business Times rewarded the Bay Area's greenest and cleanest at its annual awards ceremony on June 11, 2009. Winners of the Green Business Awards were chosen by a panel of Bay Area experts and were honored in 14 categories for cleantech innovation and progressive green business practices.
Affordable Housing Finance Magazine named Silicon Valley Bank one of the top Affordable Housing Lenders in the country in February 2009. Since 2002, Silicon Valley Bank's Community Development Finance program has closed a total of more than $313 million in more than 2,100 affordable housing lending projects in the Northern California. Of those completed, over 1,200 units were financed directly by Silicon Valley Bank. SVB's Community Development Finance projects target tenants earning 30-60 percent and frequently lower levels of Area Median Income (AMI).
American Banker selected SVB President and CEO Ken Wilcox as a Banker of the Year 2008. Wilcox is recognized for leading SVB Financial Group's strong performance "in what has been the most challenging climate for banks since the savings and loan crisis … SVB Financial, the Santa Clara, Calif., parent of the $8.1 billion-asset Silicon Valley Bank, has thrived by sticking to what it does best: serving growing technology and life sciences firms and the venture capitalists that back them." Wilcox is among six banking industry leaders honored by American Banker.
Mary Toomy, managing director for SVB Private Client Services was listed among the private banking and wealth management industry's top 35 executives by the North Bay Business Journal May, 2008. SVB Private Client Services provides personal financing solutions to entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives in the technology, life science, venture capital and premium wine industries.
Pictured with the award from left to right:
Christine Carr, manager, SVB Community
Development Finance, Bernard T. Deasy,
president, Merritt Community Capital
Corporation, and Frank Bravo, senior
banker, SVB Community Development
FinanceSilicon Valley Bank's Community Development Finance Team is proud to announce that the company was named the 2007 Merritt Investor of the Year. The award was given at the Merritt Community Capital Corporation Awards Ceremony in Oakland honoring partners in affordable housing. Since 1989, Merritt Community Capital Corporation has created eleven equity partnerships that have raised $266 million through its pooled partnership funds and direct investments. This capital has financed the creation and rehabilitation of 3,542 units of affordable housing. SVB was given the award for its leadership in providing both debt and equity resources in support of Affordable Housing Developments.
SVB Financial Group CEO Ken Wilcox was selected to enter the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame in 2008 along with laureates Ned Barnholt of Agilent Technologies, Aart de Geus of Synopsys, Inc., Marilyn Pratt of The Tech Museum Board and John Thompson of Symantec. Since 1987, Junior Achievement's Business Hall of Fame has honored Silicon Valley's visionary leaders. Selected for their unique contributions to business and community service, the laureates have played a special role in making Silicon Valley a great place to live and do business, according to the organization.
Silicon Valley Bank was awarded Tech Titan's Technology Advocate Award in October 2007. The Dallas Business Journal covers the annual awards and highlighted Silicon Valley Bank's Market Manager Robert Sureck for his dedication and commitment to supporting the technology industry through his community involvement. The Tech Titans Awards were launched in 2001 by the Metroplex Technology Business Council, North Texas' most comprehensive organization supporting technology. The prestigious annual contest recognizes outstanding information technology companies and individuals in the North Texas area who have made contributions during the past year locally, as well as to the technology industry overall.
Produced by SVB Financial Group's Multi-Media Director, Steve Norfleet, "Light the Night: Walking for a Cure" won the Fall 2006 award in the long format fundraising category at the International Digital Video (DV) competition. As an active supporter and fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, SVB Finanical Group devoted resources to produce a promotional piece for the organizations' annual Light the Night fundraising event. The video, highlighting Leukemia and Lymphoma Society events that took place in San Jose and San Francisco and included on-location interviews of participants, was designed to educate viewers and encourage their participation in Light the Night fundraising. The DV Awards is an international competition celebrating outstanding creative and technical achievements in digital video production that is judged by a panel of seasoned professionals with an average of 20 years experience in the video production industry.
Each year the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal names the top 35 corporate philanthropists in the area based on cash contributions to Silicon Valley-based charitable organizations. In 2006, SVB appeared as #20 on that list. SVB is committed to dedicating volunteer and financial resources to positively impact our local communities. Our employees participate in a variety of community building activities, ranging from triathlons for the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society's Team in Training, to volunteering time with children and families in the Salvation Army Adopt-a-Family Program, putting our hard hats on for the annual National Rebuilding Together Day every April and feeding the less fortunate during the holidays through food banks around the country. In addition to corporate sponsorships, the SVB Foundation makes grants on a quarterly basis to organizations and programs that share our goal of serving and improving the community in the areas of education, the arts, and the quality of life in our surrounding communities.
Silicon Valley Bank's Chief Operating Officer Greg Becker was honored by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal in October 2006 as one of the most interesting people in Silicon Valley business. The annual list showcases the top 40 "People to Watch" under the age of 40 as they take on growing responsibility and leadership within Silicon Valley. Greg and Silicon Valley Bank give SVB's entrepreneurial clients, in Silicon Valley and around the world, a better chance of success, and truly help drive innovation and business growth.
For the second year in a row, SVB Financial Group was ranked as one of the "Best Places to Work" in the Greater Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and East Bay Business Times. SVB Financial Group ranked 11th among big companies (those with over 501–3,000 employees) in the region. The Business Journal recognized SVB Financial Group for understanding the importance in investing in its most valuable asset — its employees.
SVB's 2005 Year In Review, titled "From Here To There" garnered the company and its agency partner on the project, VSA Partners, industry-wide recognition in two annual report competitions. The SVB Year In Review, which uses innovative photography and concepts to portray its unique business model and corporate strategy, was selected from hundreds of submissions for its outstanding use of illustration, photography, design, printing and effectively communicating the SVB story. For more information on the awards, visit www.mercommawards.com and www.blackbook.com/ar100/.
Dale Kirkland, senior relationship manager for Silicon Valley Bank's Atlanta office, was listed among the banking industry's 100 most influential figures in Georgia by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in April 2006. In all technology hubs in the U.S., Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science and private equity firms, but more importantly it strives to become a key part of the local community.
Silicon Valley Bank received the 2005 Small Business Bank of the Year Award from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) at Ex-Im Bank's 2005 annual conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 14. Long a leader in the use of Ex-Im Bank's products, Silicon Valley Bank utilized nearly $100 million in Ex-Im Bank authorizations to provide financing for export transactions that supported over 1,500 U.S. small business jobs in fiscal year 2004. For this period, Silicon Valley Bank provided 35 Ex-Im Bank-guaranteed working capital facilities totaling $77.5 million, and an additional $20 million using its Ex-Im Bank letter of credit insurance policy.
Silicon Valley Bank's director of multimedia, Steve Norfleet, has been recognized for his outstanding achievements as a filmmaker and has received multiple industry awards for his documentary about the company. In celebration of Silicon Valley Bank's twentieth anniversary in 2003, Norfleet lead the development and production of a documentary chronicling the history of the company, from concept and start-up to multi-billion-dollar, global financial institution. "Silicon Valley Bank: Reinventing an Industry, Financing the Future," has become part of the permanent collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the premier museum in the world devoted to exploring the computing revolution and its impact on people's lives.
Silicon Valley Bank set the record in 2003 as the leader among domestic U.S. banks in volume and value providing Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) working capital guaranteed loans, specializing in technology and life science companies. Silicon Valley Bank made 46 loans totaling $132 million, or 15 percent of the total loans guaranteed by Ex-Im in 2003, as part of its Working Capital Loan Guarantee Program.
Silicon Valley Bank was ranked as one of the 100 "Best Places to Work" in the Greater Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and East Bay Business Times. Silicon Valley Bank ranked 23rd among large companies (those with over 350 employees) in the region. The Business Journal recognized Silicon Valley Bank for understanding the importance in investing in its most valuable asset — its employees.
Alan Spurgin, Silicon Valley Bank's Southeast division manager, was listed among the leaders of the technology industry in Georgia by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in October 2003. In all technology hubs in the U.S., Silicon Valley Bank serves tech companies, but more importantly it strives to become a key part of the technology industry.
Silicon Valley Bank's Chief Banking Officer Joan Parsons was named the 2003 All-Star in Finance by Mass High Tech, the Journal of New England Technology. The All-Star program, in its eighth year, recognizes New Englanders from all sectors of the technology community who help make the region a center of innovation. Find more information about Joan's award in the press release and on www.masshightech.com.
Debbie Teryison, Silicon Valley Bank's head of operations, was honored in 2003 in the Santa Clara Valley YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry. The YWCA award has honored women who exemplify excellence in executive level positions and the companies who employ these women.