Ken Wilcox
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Ken Wilcox

Ken Wilcox was the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from 2001 to 2011, then the CEO of SVB's joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB-SVB) in Shanghai until 2015, followed by four years as its Vice Chairman. He currently serves on the boards of the Asia Society of Northern California, the Asian Art Museum, and UC San Diego's 21st Century China Center, as well as Columbia Lake Partners, a European venture-debt fund. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Fudan University School of Management in Shanghai and an Adjunct Professor at U.C. Berkeley.

Ken holds a PhD in German from Ohio State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has given numerous speeches in both English and Chinese, published a variety of articles in the banking press, and recently wrote the management book Leading Through Culture: How Real Leaders Create Cultures That Motivate People to Achieve Great Things (Waterside Productions, 2020) and its accompanying workbook, How About You? (Waterside Productions, 2023). He details his experiences of starting a technology lending bank in The China Business Conundrum (Wiley, 2024).

Living in California's Bay Area, Ken enjoys gardening, English cars from the 1950s, and wine.
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    • Leading Through Culture

    • How Real Leaders Create Cultures That Motivate People to Achieve Great Things
    • By: Ken Wilcox
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 min
    • Release date: 06/07/2021
    • Language: English
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