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Mike Devery
Market Manager, Silicon Valley Bank

Mike Devery is currently the market manager for Silicon Valley Banks Rocky Mountain region. He is responsible for all of the banks activities in the eight-state region that includes Arizona, Colorado and Utah, states where the bank has physical locations. A 12-year veteran of the bank, Devery was previously a managing director for Silicon Valley Bank Capitals private equity group, covering the central United States. SVB Capital is the private equity arm of SVB Financial Group. The groups family of funds exceeds $1.2 billion and includes funds of funds, co-investment funds, venture debt funds and specialty debt funds invested primarily on behalf of endowments and foundations.

Prior to this role, Devery was manager of the banks Colorado office from 1999 through 2004. He also served from 1996 to 1999 as a senior vice president and account officer in banks Palo Alto-based software practice. He worked with notable software companies such as Aurum Software, Chordiant Software, Brio Software and Tumbleweed Communications. Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Devery spent three years with Union Banks middle market group in San Francisco. He also served for two years in Sony Musics New York-based finance department.

Devery earned a bachelors degree in finance from the University of Colorado and a masters degree in business administration from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of Management.

Devery is on the board of the Impact on Education, a not-for-profit supplemental funding vehicle for public education where he chairs the board development dommittee.