R. Bryan Jadot is Head of Life Sciences Venture Lending and brings nearly 20 years of financial and credit structuring experience to Hercules.

Prior to joining Hercules in 2005, Jadot served as vice president of the Life Sciences Group at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Newton, MA where he co-managed a banking group dedicated to New England-based life science clients including biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare IT clients. Jadot also worked as the vice president of the Software Group at Silicon Valley Bank in Palo Alto, CA.

Prior to Silicon Valley Bank, Jadot worked with the Corporate Banking arm of the Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) in San Francisco, CA and was an assistant economist with the Department of Treasury’s Office of Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union in Washington DC.

Jadot earned a B.A. in economics and government from California State University at Sacramento, and completed the Wells Fargo Bank Credit Management Training Program. He served as a nuclear operations specialist with the US Army (Europe) and is fluent in French.