Blake Armstrong

Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank

Mr. Armstrong is currently a Vice President in the enterprise software growth division of Silicon Valley Bank and is based in San Francisco. Mr. Armstrong was formerly a Venture Partner at TheFamily, a growth catalyst to early stage European technology ventures. Prior to TheFamily, he was the founding Director of Business Development for Vapor Communications, a venture backed Harvard University technology spinout based in Paris, France. He co-founded Edify, a social enterprise that provides SME financing to entrepreneurs in the developing world and is the founding chairman of The Rural Health Collaborative, a non-profit organization that supports the health of communities in rural Ghana. Blake earned his MBA from the University of Oxford. A Dodger fan in a land of Giants, Mr. Armstrong is a dual US/French citizen and loves exploring the outdoors on the weekend with his wife Raphaëlle.