Stifel Financial expanded its venture banking group by hiring Jake Moseley, Matt Trotter and Ted Wilson, who are former Silicon Valley Bank employees, as managing directors. They will be based in the San Francisco Bay area.
“Adding these talented new partners is yet another example of our commitment to growth companies, venture capital and the entire innovation ecosystem,” Ron Kruszewski, chairman and CEO of Stifel, said. “Jake, Matt and Ted represent the best in banking and we are thrilled to have them at Stifel.”
Moseley, Trotter and Wilson will join Stifel veterans Brad Ellis and Nat Stone as members of a five-person operating committee dedicated to delivering commercial banking and lending solutions to clients across all business sectors. In addition to venture banking, Stifel also provides fund banking, sponsor finance, securities-based lending, treasury, wealth management and investment banking across equity and debt products.
“We believe that Stifel is the best place for us to continue our mission of providing best-in-class financial services to entrepreneurs and their investors,” Moseley, Trotter and Wilson said in a joint statement.
Moseley has 20 years of experience working with technology, life science, cleantech, private equity and venture capital clients. Most recently, he was head of relationship management technology banking at Silicon Valley Bank. In that role, he was responsible for leading relationships with the bank’s core constituency of venture-backed and independent U.S. technology companies.
Prior to joining Stifel, Trotter was a senior market manager and head of frontier technologies and climate technology and sustainability at Silicon Valley Bank. In this position, he focused on building products to support the evolving business models and capital-expenditure needs for companies creating technologies in the transportation, industrials, aerospace, energy, agriculture, food and hardware infrastructure sectors.
Wilson has experience helping financial services and venture capital firms scale their businesses, previously serving as head of enterprise software at Silicon Valley Bank. In that role, Wilson focused on relationship management, debt financing, banking solutions and making connections for entrepreneurs and investors.
