Dan Pistone, Western Alliance Bank

Dan Pistone

Senior Managing Director, Commercial Banking

(408) 689-8502

[email protected]


Dan Pistone is senior managing director, commercial banking, for the Technology and Innovation group at Bridge Bank. Based in San Jose, he serves clients throughout the U.S., financing emerging, mid- and late-stage companies from inception to IPO and beyond. During his tenure, he helped establish the bank’s Equity Fund Resources, Life Sciences and Renewable Resource groups.

Mr. Pistone joined Bridge Bank in 2003, before which he was a managing director of Inspiration Capital Ventures, LLC, a private capital advisory firm. In all, he has 25 years of banking and financial industry experience.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Saint Mary’s College and graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.

Technology Finance
About Us

Bridge Bank’s Technology Finance group provides flexible financial solutions to emerging, mid- and late-stage technology companies throughout the U.S. The Technology Finance group works with venture- and non-venture-backed companies from inception through IPO and beyond. The team’s expertise spans multiple verticals including e-commerce, digital marketing, mobile, clean- and green-tech, telecommunications, infrastructure and more. Bridge Bank is a division of Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, the primary subsidiary of Phoenix-based Western Alliance Bancorporation, with approximately $50 billion in assets. Western Alliance is again #1 best-performing of the 50 largest public U.S. banks in the new S&P Global Market Intelligence listing for 2020 and ranks high on the Forbes “Best Banks in America” list year after year. Serving clients across the country wherever business happens, Western Alliance Bank operates individually branded, full-service banking divisions and has offices in key markets nationwide.