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Chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank at its collapse
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Greg Becker grew up in Fort Wayne, on his family's 300-acre farm; his father ran a business-supply company in the city. He took a finance degree from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, started his career at Comerica Bank in Detroit, and in 1993 joined Silicon Valley Bank in California. He became chief executive of SVB Financial Group and its bank in 2011 and also sat on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In March 2023 the bank collapsed — the second-largest bank failure in United States history to that date — and Becker was removed as chief executive. Reference sources differ on his birth year, giving 1966 or 1967, and no fuller Fort Wayne record of his early life has been published; this profile sticks to what the profiles of him support.
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Sources: GeekWire (profile, June 1, 2012, describing Becker as "from Fort Wayne, Indiana"); business-press coverage of SVB, 2011–2023.