Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 22, 2000
KENNETH P. WILCOX is President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon
Valley Bank. Mr. Wilcox is responsible for all sales and marketing
activities of the bank's several lending practices, including software,
online, life sciences, semiconductor, computers and peripherals, and
special industries, as well as credit administration, human resources,
and operation. Mr. Wilcox joined the bank in 1990 as a co-Founder and
Manager of the Bank's East Coast Technology Group, known as Silicon
Valley East. From that office in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, he was
responsible for all lending activity east of the Mississippi River. In
December of 1993, Mr. Wilcox was named to the Managing Committee of the
Bank. Mr. Wilcox has been lending exclusively to technology and life
sciences companies since 1983. Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Mr.
Wilcox was a member of the Technology Lending Group with The Bank of New
England. He began his banking career in the Technology Lending Group
with Shawmut Bank. Mr. Wilcox attended Ohio State University and
received a PhD in German Studies in 1977. He also received his Master's
in Business with a specialty in Finance from Harvard University. Profile
Bancshares?
Mr. Wilcox: The company has been in existence for 17 years. It was
founded in 1983 with the explicit purpose of
