New York-based Signature Bank has taken on a five-strong private client team in Long Island, NY, led by James Young as group director/senior vice president.

New York-based Signature Bank has taken on a five-strong private client team in Long Island, NY, led by James Young as group director/senior vice president.

The other team members are associate group directors/vice presidents Michael Grubstein, Stephanie Bruno and Devon Kiernan, as well as Lourdes Mosquito, client associate. Many of the team members join after a 10-year period at HSBC in Long Island, the bank said.

At HSBC, Young was most recently a vice president and senior branch manager at offices in Carle Place and Garden City, while Grubstein was a premier relationship manager and assistant vice president for seven years at the Garden City branch. He previously served as a client financial analyst at Citibank NA in Mineola.

Before joining Signature Bruno served as branch service manager for 20 years in the Carle Place office, while Kiernan, who was also based there, was a senior premier relationship manager for six years, specializing in professional services and high net worth individuals. Meanwhile, Mosquito worked in Carle Place for 10 years, focusing on customer service and branch operations.

According to Joseph DePaolo, president and chief executive, the bank now has 19 teams operating from six private client banking offices and will also be launching a seventh office in Hauppauge soon. "Long Island has a concentration of privately-owned and entrepreneurial-led businesses that are the type of clients to whom Signature Bank caters," he said.