Christopher Jerome Joins Imperial Bank's Venture Capital Services Group; Venture Financing Industry Leader Enhances Its Market Position.Business Editors MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000 Imperial Bank, the principal subsidiary of Imperial Bancorp (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IMP), today announced that Christopher Jerome has joined the Emerging Growth Division's Venture Capital Services group as vice president. Jerome's addition enhances Imperial Bank's position as a national leader in supplying innovative venture banking and financing services to venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] and early-stage technology companies. "The addition of Chris Jerome to our national venture services practice is a major step in continuing Imperial Bank's tradition of supplying customers with resources unavailable elsewhere in the market," said Michael David, managing director of the Venture Capital Services group. "Having Chris on board represents a significant development in our ongoing expansion of Imperial Bank's strategic marketing and business development efforts nationwide. "With his visibility in the venture capital community and significant experience structuring complex financial transactions, Chris' addition to our team is a major enhancement of Imperial Bank's world-class capabilities in the venture finance industry," David added. Jerome is a former vice president of Imperial Creditcorp, a lending and venture fund investing subsidiary of Imperial Bancorp. In his new role, he will continue to work closely with Imperial Creditcorp and Imperial Ventures, Imperial Bank's venture capital subsidiary. "The venture finance industry is becoming substantially more complex, so providing real value to customers today requires an in-depth familiarity with all aspects of the venture capital model," said Philip Sanderson, general partner of Walden VC and Chairman of the Young Venture Capital Association. "The best professionals are those people who can provide deep expertise and become an extension of your firm. Chris is one of the few guys out there who can pull all the pieces together for an investor or management team. He's a great addition to Imperial's Venture Capital Services group." Jerome holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. . He is also a graduate of the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB) is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California. It is one of the leading business schools in the United States. Administration. About Imperial Bank's Emerging Growth Division With $7 billion in assets, Imperial Bank is fueling the growth of the new economy. Imperial, founded in 1963, has been a technology banking leader for nearly a decade and offers a wide range of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs and professionals. Imperial's Emerging Growth Division provides credit and financial services and products to young, growing professionally backed technology companies in the computer products, Internet services, telecommunications, life sciences and e-commerce industries. Within the Emerging Growth Division is Venture Capital Services, which is dedicated to providing venture capitalists a full range of banking services. From offices located in Phoenix, Ariz.; Irvine, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Palo Alto and San Diego, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Boston, Mass.; Austin and Dallas, Texas; New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Reston, Va. and Kirkland, Wash., Imperial's senior level venture banking team serves all major technology centers nationwide. National clients include E-Stamp, Go2Net and ClearCommerce. Imperial Bank can be found on the Web at www.imperialbank.com. Imperial Bank Emerging Growth Division -- Fueling the Growth of the New Economy. |
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