Key Points
The executive cut his teeth during the dotcom bubble and later steered the startup-focused lender in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis..
Greg Becker, the chief executive officer who presided over the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, joined the company three decades ago as a loan officer...
Becker, who served on the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, departed the board effective Friday, a spokesperson for the regional Fed bank said...
When his manager left to work for Silicon Valley Bank, Becker followed, he said in 2021 on a Bloomberg podcast...
Before becoming president and CEO of SVB Financial Group, Becker co-founded SVB Capital, the company's investment arm..
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