Silicon Valley Bank ex-CEO backed Big Tech lobbying groups that targeted Dodd Frank, sought corporate tax cuts

In buildup to Silicon Valley Bank's failure, the firm's then-CEO Greg Becker chaired a trade group called TechNet and was a board member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.

Both groups list tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta as members.

One took aim at elements of the Dodd-Frank reform bill and the other advocated for cutting corporate taxes.

Becker was chairman of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group from 2014 through 2017.

The organization boasts on its website that it supported comprehensive corporate tax reform.

Federal records show the group has not filed lobbying disclosure reports since 2009.

Even as it pursued policy goals that sometimes clashed with Democrats' priorities, SVB and Becker often gave money to candidates for office.