Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has hired more than 20 people from Silicon Valley Bank as the Japanese firm builds out its technology, media and telecom banking group.
The move includes five senior executives and is part of MUFG’s expansion to support pre-IPO growth and middle-market public companies, according to Oksana Poltavets, a spokesperson for MUFG. The bank launched its emerging technology banking business three years ago, she added.
The hires mark the latest example of talent leaving troubled Silicon Valley Bank, which First Citizens BancShares Inc. agreed to buy after a run on deposits wiped out SVB in the biggest US bank failure in more than a decade. HSBC Holdings Plc’s US

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has hired more than 20 people from Silicon Valley Bank as the Japanese firm builds out its technology, media and telecom banking group.
The move includes five senior executives and is part of MUFG’s expansion to support pre-IPO growth and middle-market public companies, according to Oksana Poltavets, a spokesperson for MUFG. The bank launched its emerging technology banking business three years ago, she added.
The hires mark the latest example of talent leaving troubled Silicon Valley Bank, which First Citizens BancShares Inc. agreed to buy after a run on deposits wiped out SVB in the biggest US bank failure in more than a decade. HSBC Holdings Plc’s US arm recently hired more than 40 bankers from SVB to build out a new healthcare and technology banking practice, according to an HSBC spokesman.
“First Citizens acquired Silicon Valley Bank knowing it had the deepest bench of experts serving the innovation economy and that remains unchanged,” said John Moran, a spokesperson for First Citizens, in an emailed statement. 
The latest MUFG hires include Bob Blee, who has joined as a managing director and head of growth and middle-market technology banking for the Americas. He will report to Bill Davidson, global head of TMT banking, and be based in the Bay Area. Blee previously led SVB’s technology corporate banking division.
Other managing director hires, who will report to Blee, include:
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<li>Brian Boatman as head of sales, based in Seattle. He oversaw SVB’s corporate banking practice in the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, South, and the Midwest</li>
<li>Brian Fitzpatrick as head of venture capital relationship management and the Northern California Region, based in the Bay Area. He was responsible for SVB’s Northern California market, leading teams covering the software, consumer, internet, financial technology, and hardware sectors</li>
<li>Mike Shuhy as head of credit solutions, based in Boston. He was SVB’s head of corporate banking credit solutions</li>
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In addition, John Atanasoff is joining as a managing director and dedicated credit partner. He will report to chief credit officer Larry Bressler, and formerly held the role of credit risk manager at SVB.

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Raphael is the Head of Direct Lending Origination at Fidelity International, a position he has held since April 2022. Prior to this, he worked at Bank of Ireland from October 2012 to April 2022, where he served as Head of Leveraged & Acquisition Finance and CEO for France, as well as Deputy Global Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance. From August 2007 to September 2012, he was an Executive Director in Leveraged Capital Markets and Sponsor Coverage at RBS. Earlier in his career, from April 2000 to August 2007, he was a Director in Leveraged Finance Origination and Leveraged Capital Markets at HSBC.

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Genoveva is the Head of Global CIB Corporate Coverage at MUFG Bank Europe NV, a position she has held since her promotion in July 2022. She joined MUFG in October 2018, previously serving as Head of Global Corporate Banking for Spain & Portugal and then for Southern Europe. Prior to MUFG, she worked at BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking from September 1995 to October 2018, where she held various roles including Managing Director in Corporate Clients Financing & Advisory, Director in Investment Banking Europe, Deputy Head of the Corporate & Transaction Group, and Large Corporates Coverage.

Genoveva completed the MTIS Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2017 and participated in the Promociona 3.2 Programa Ejecutivo de Mujeres en la Alta Dirección at Esade from 2015 to 2016.

Yoshi Katsuda has been appointed as the regional head of Middle East at the Japanese bank MUFG, effective this week. He will be based in Dubai and will report into Hidefumi Yamamura, regional executive, MUFG EMEA. Katsuda has spent 25 years at the bank, including a stint in EMEA, a statement said on Wednesday.

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Katsuda first joined MUFG 25 years ago. He was most recently head of the global corporate banking office in the GCIB Planning Division in Tokyo, Japan.

Prior to that, Katsuda spent three years as head of business strategy management in the DIFC branch, from 2018 to 2021.

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