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Ken Wilcox

Ken Wilcox

Ken Wilcox was the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from 2001 to 2011, then the CEO of SVB's joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB-SVB) in Shanghai until 2015, followed by four years as its Vice Chairman. He currently serves on the boards of the Asia Society of Northern California, the Asian Art Museum, and UC San Diego's 21st Century China Center, as well as Columbia Lake Partners, a European venture-debt fund. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Fudan University School of Management in Shanghai and an Adjunct Professor at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of Leading Through Culture: How Real Leaders Create Cultures That Motivate People to Achieve Great and its accompanying workbook, How About You, and The China Business Conundrum: Ensure that Win-Win Doesn’t Mean Western Companies Lose Twice.

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Ken Wilcox
CEO Explainers

How Western Companies Fail in China— What Leaders Need to Know

CEO ExplainersKen Wilcox
I perceive three major themes in Silicon Valley Bank’s experience that explain why Western companies fail in China. They’re pretty obvious, but since I was caught in the bear trap, I didn’t see them. In short, China succeeds by: Deceit, manipulation, and leverage: These approaches stem directly from both The...