Bridge Capital Holdings, the parent of Bridge Bank, announced that it has expanded its Southern California presence by adding several professional business bankers to the team.

With this expansion, Bridge Bank's Southern California office offers a full complement of banking products for small- and mid-market companies. This includes corporate finance and asset-based lending (ABL), technology banking, and other commercial banking products.

Bridge Bank's recent hires in Southern California include Jorge Visitacion as Capital Financial Division (CFD) team leader. Additionally, Grant Simon has relocated from Bridge Bank's headquarters in San Jose as relationship manager in the Capital Finance Group.

Visitacion has almost 20 years of experience in commercial lending and for the past three years co-led East-West Bank's ABL Division in Pasadena where he was responsible for overseeing a portfolio of middle-market companies and was also an integral part of redefining and constructing the bank's ABL infrastructure by implementing guidelines and policies to improve bank-wide processes. Previous to East-West Bank, Visitacion spent seven years at Wells Fargo where he rose from AVP and senior sales associate through relationship manager to VP and senior underwriter in the Loan Originations Group of the Wells Fargo Trade Capital Group. He  has a B.S. in Business Administration with a Finance specialization from The University of San Francisco's McLaren School of Business.

Bridge Bank is a full-service professional business bank founded in the highly competitive climate of Silicon Valley in 2001.