Silicon Valley Bank Appoints Hollins Head of Product Sales

Silicon Valley Bank appointed Christopher Hollins head of product sales. In this role, he will lead SVB’s product sales and implementation teams, which provide foreign exchange, treasury and global payments solutions to SVB clients.

“We are delighted to welcome Christopher to SVB,” Gagan Kanjlia, chief product officer at SVB, said. “He brings an impressive track record in financial services and technology to SVB, and his deep understanding of how global treasury, payments and foreign exchange solutions help clients achieve their business goals will be invaluable to our clients and our product and relationship teams.”

Hollins joined SVB from JPMorgan Chase, where he was a managing director and general manager responsible for treasury services sales, strategy and product management for Chase Business Banking. Previously, he was president of strategic partnerships at Worldpay (now FIS), focusing on marketing and sales for the firm’s U.S. merchant acquiring business. Prior to that, Hollins was a senior vice president of global merchant services at American Express. His earlier career is rooted in mobile telecom and IT with AT&T and IBM, respectively.