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Mr. Lambert (Ed) is a Senior Vice-President with Bridge Bank-focusing on creating and expanding relationships with Emerging Growth to Public High-Tech, Green and Life Science Companies. He began his 28 years of banking/lending experience with Bank of America and has achieved significant success wherever he has worked including Silicon Valley Bank, Imperial Bank and Comerica Bank. Ed also began the Tech Practice for Coast Business Credit, building to $20-30MM in annual commitments. He contributes this success to being an overall "solution source" partner to clients, prospects, referral partners and colleagues - for any problem. Ed has employed this focus on providing solutions to companies from seed to public-including such well known companies as Cisco, Atmel, CNET, Biomarin, Mattson and Solar City to name a few. At Bridge, his focus is to provide a combination of “virtual” and human support to clients that will allow them to grow domestically and internationally.

Ed holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Ed has sat on several boards, including the executive committee of the American Electronics Association, the Silicon Valley Assoc. of Software Entreprenuers (SVASE), Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley and the San Jose Downtown Business Association, where he was a founding member. He has spoken at Tech/Clean Tech events and conference in the U.S. and Europe and is a contributing blogger on banking and VC issues to AlwaysOn Networks