SVB Financial Group has $40 billion in assets and o ces in the U.S., U.K., Israel, and China, and is the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank. Its analytics unit, SVB Analytics, supports SVB and its clients, which include half the venture-backed technology and life science companies in the U.S. It offers 409A compliance services to help private companies to value employee stock options, as well as provides strategic advisory services to help companies and their investors to benchmark key operational and valuation statistics.
Steve Allan joined the company in 2008 to run SVB Analytics. He spoke with MIT Sloan Management Review contributing editor, Michael Fitzgerald.