City National hired James Bourque as a vice president and senior private client advisor, and Carine Krikorian as vice president and senior private banker. The pair will advise clients in the technology and venture capital industries.

City National’s Palo Alto office now has 16 colleagues, double the amount from a year ago, it said.

Bourque has nearly 20 years of experience managing assets for high net worth clients and serving technology executives and family offices. He most recently worked at BNY Mellon as a senior director in San Francisco. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at Morgan Stanley in the private wealth management division.

Krikorian was previously a private banker at Union Bank, as well as having worked at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America.