Signature Bank has hired a trio from Wells Fargo for its growing private client banking team.

Craig Anzalone is now group director and senior vice president leading the three-person team. Anzalone previously served as business banking manager at Wells Fargo in Long Island and had also worked as a manager at Chase in New Hyde Park.

He is joined by Patricia Modena as associate group director and vice president and Karen Perry-Taylor as senior client associate. Modena was a senior relationship manager at Wells Fargo, while Perry-Taylor was latterly a business client associate there. 

The appointments complement the recent hire of three executives for the firm's private client banking teams in Long Island. William Pyszczymuka has been named associate group director and vice president for the Jericho team, Veronica Higbie joined the Melville team, while Anna Walsh was hired for the Manhattan team. Pyszczymuka was previously a branch business manager at Capital One Bank in Hicksville; Higbie was a business relationship manager at HSBC's Melville branch, and Walsh used to be the operations manager and vice president for the premier corporate and professional services division of HSBC in Manhattan.

To date this year, Signature Bank has added seven private client teams to its network and expanded eight of its own teams. The company has 25 offices across the US and around $13.9 billion in assets as of 30 September 2011.