Signature Bank, a New York-based full-service commercial bank, has added a new private client banking team to be based in the Brooklyn area. This marks 10 teams now dedicated to serving the growing Brooklyn marketplace.
Leon Kratsberg and Gary Shulevich were each named senior vice president and group director while Deborah Raffone was appointed senior client associate.
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Kratsberg and Shulevich, who have worked together for eight years, will serve the entire Brooklyn marketplace from the bank’s office at 84 Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the bank further expands efforts across Brooklyn, the team will be relocating to another private client banking office in the area.
The team joins from the HSBC branch near Bensonhurst, Brooklyn at 6702 Bay Parkway. Most recently, Kratsberg, with a decade of banking experience, was a senior relationship manager and vice president, serving large commercial clients throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island. Prior to this, he was a business relationship manager at JP Morgan Chase covering the Brooklyn area.
Shulevich brings 11 years of banking experience to his new role, all spent with his former employer. Previously, he was a relationship manager and vice president, also catering to the Brooklyn and Staten Island markets, where he managed one of the largest deposit portfolios within that market.
Raffone’s 21-year banking career was primarily spent serving as assistant branch manager at various HSBC branches in Brooklyn and Staten Island, providing business support to relationship managers in both these geographic areas.
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By GlobalDataJoseph J DePaolo, president and chief executive officer, said: "The appointment of Leon, Gary and Debbie marks the seventh team we’ve added in the first half of the year and the 10th private client banking team we now have based in Brooklyn, serving this growing marketplace. Leon and Gary will cater to clients throughout Brooklyn as well as Staten Island, since during the past decade; they have focused on forging relationships throughout both areas.
"With the recent commercial and residential boom and changing landscape throughout many parts of Brooklyn, we are continuing to expand our presence in this vibrant marketplace. Our three established offices, along with another set to open soon, will extend our single-point-of-contact approach to additional clients throughout the borough," DePaolo added.
