Signature Bank Welcomes Two Private Banking Teams From HSBC, JP Morgan

Eliane Chavagnon

11 April 2014

New York-listed Signature Bank has added two private client banking teams, increasing the total number of teams in its network to 94.

Both teams will be based in Forest Hills, Queens, NY, when the office opens its doors later this year.

Tamara Gavrielof, group director and senior vice president, will head a five-strong team previously of HSBC. Gavrielof spent the past seven years as cluster branch manager-vice president and before joining HSBC was a senior branch manager at Commerce Bank in Forest Hills.

Claudia Giraldo, associate group director and vice president, has worked with Gavrielof for the past ten years. Most recently, she was a business relationship manager and vice president in Glen Oaks, Queens. Before her stint at HSBC, she too worked at Commerce Bank as an assistant branch manager in Forest Hills.

Also joining Gavrielof’s team is Diego Pinzon, associate group director and vice president. Pinzon was formerly a senior international business relationship manager at the same location as Giraldo for ten years. Before that, he was an assistant vice president and small business relationship manager at Chase Bank.

Additionally, Lily Karim and Kamla Indarjit have been brought in as senior client associates.

Second team

Meanwhile, Ilya Weisbord, group director and senior vice president, will lead a three-person team who join from JP Morgan Chase. Weisbord was latterly a relationship manager in Kew Gardens, Queens, working with commercial clients.

Yan Tsukerman, associate group director and vice president, spent the last eight years as a relationship manager and vice president at Chase Bank.

Rosamaria Ferreira, senior client associate, was latterly a vice president and assistant branch manager in Great Neck.

Gavrielof and her team are temporarily working at Signature Bank’s office in Jamaica, Queens, while Weisbord and his team are in Long Island City, Queens.

In a similar move last month, Signature Bank added three private banking teams in New York.