Andy Fitzpatrick Joins First Republic Bank

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

First Republic Bank, a leading private bank and wealth management
company, today announced that Andy Fitzpatrick, a business banker with
12 years of experience, has joined First Republic as Managing Director
and Business Banker in Boston.

Fitzpatrick will work with First Republic professionals providing lending
services, deposit
services, cash management, foreign exchange, online banking,
and business escrow. Fitzpatrick is located at First Republic’s Boston
office at 160 Federal Street.

Fitzpatrick is part of a team of bankers serving venture and private
equity clients in First Republic’s offices in Silicon Valley, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Boston. The bank has many
long-standing relationships with venture capital and private equity
firms, including the principals of those firms and senior executives of
venture- and private equity-backed companies.

“Andy Fitzpatrick strengthens our growing team of business bankers
dedicated to venture capital and private equity clients on both coasts,”
said Katherine
August-deWilde, President and Chief Operating Officer of
First Republic Bank. “First Republic continues to expand its business
banking capabilities to address the needs of growing, dynamic companies.
Andy shares First Republic’s commitment to exceptional client service.”

Prior to joining First Republic, Fitzpatrick was a Senior Vice President
for RBC Bank in Boston, where he worked with venture capital, private
equity and technology companies. Prior to that, he worked for Comerica
Bank, most recently as Vice President in the Venture Fund Services
Group. Fitzpatrick has an MBA from Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate
School of Business, and a Bachelor of Art’s degree in Economics from
College of the Holy Cross.

About First Republic Bank

First Republic Bank (NYSE:FRC – News) and its subsidiaries provide private
banking, private business banking and private wealth management. Founded
in 1985, First Republic specializes in exceptional, relationship-based
service offered through preferred banking or wealth management offices
primarily in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara,
Newport Beach, San Diego, Portland, Boston, Greenwich and New York City.
First Republic offers a complete line of banking products for
individuals and businesses, including deposit services, as well as
residential, commercial and personal loans. First Republic is a
component of the SP Total Market Index, the Wilshire 5000 Total Market
Index^SM, the Russell 1000®, Russell 3000® and Russell Global
indices and six Dow Jones indices.