Signature Bank Hires Three Private Client Teams

Robbie Lawther

3 October 2018

Signature Bank, a New York-based full-service commercial bank, has hired three private client banking teams to join its offices in Manhattan and Long Island.

Lisa Vazquez-Kailey and Noel Vazquez were both named group directors and senior vice presidents as part of a three-person private client banking team, based at the bank’s private client banking office in its headquarters location in midtown Manhattan, it said in a statement.

The team worked together for seven years at Citibank before joining Signature Bank.

Vazquez-Kailey has more than 25 years of experience. She was a vice president and Citigold private client relationship manager at her former employer, based in Midtown. She managed clients with a team of specialists focused on serving high net worth professionals and business owners, particularly those in the medical and dental arenas.

Vazquez, with 24 years of banking and investment experience, spent the past six as vice president and Citigold private client relationship manager in Stamford, Connecticut. He was responsible for developing high net worth client relationships and focused on serving business owners and corporate executives.

Also joining the team is Milagros Rodriguez, who was named senior client associate. Rodriguez spent her entire 19-year banking career at Citibank in Midtown Manhattan. Most recently, she was an account specialist supporting 40 Citigold private client relationship managers across the US, including Vazquez-Kailey and Vazquez.

Second team
Jay Young and Ling Li, both named as group director and senior vice president, are part of a three-person team at the bank’s private client banking office at 261 Madison Avenue in New York City. The two have known each other for nearly 10 years while working at the same banks throughout their careers.

Young, with 15 years of banking experience, was a vice president and senior mid-corporate relationship manager at HSBC on Long Island, and earlier spent five years at Capital One Bank in New York City.

Most recently, Li, with more than a decade of business banking experience, served as vice president and senior business banker at Capital One Bank in Midtown Manhattan for more than five years. She also was a vice president and senior business relationship manager at HSBC.

Joining Young and Li’s team is Janet Bal as senior client associate. Bal was a relationship associate supporting a team of five relationship managers at HSBC.

Third team
Another team has joined the Woodmere private client banking office. It is headed by Naor Boxer, group director and senior vice president, and Lisa Murphy and Michael Weinberg are both group directors and vice presidents. The team worked together for the past five years at Citibank.

Boxer, having spent a decade in banking, was most recently a Citigold relationship manager. He originally joined Citibank as a personal banker and was promoted to Citigold relationship manager within several years.

Murphy spent nearly eight years at Citibank as a Citigold relationship manager in both Midtown Manhattan and Long Island. With 11 years in banking, previously she was a financial specialist at Wells Fargo.

Weinberg has 19 years of financial services experience. Before joining the bank, he was a Citigold relationship manager in Long Beach, Long Island for six years. Previously, he was a financial advisor and private banker at UBS.

“The appointment of these three veteran banking teams clearly demonstrates our ability to attract talented banking professionals who prefer Signature Bank’s distinctive single-point-of-contact model,” said Joseph DePaolo, president and chief executive of Signature Bank. “This approach affords them the opportunity to cater to their clients effectively. Since the start of the year, eight new teams have joined our institution, which is evidence of the solid reputation Signature Bank has built as well as the significant market opportunity that remains.”