New York-based Signature Bank has added two private client banking teams as well as a group director to one of its existing teams.

The first team to join are Vincent LoPreto, Keti Dervishi and Claudia Aviles, who all join the bank’s Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York private client office. LoPreto and Dervishi have both been appointed group directors and senior vice presidents, while Aviles is a senior client associate.

The team joined from Metropolitan National Bank and have worked together for a total of 10 years.

Meanwhile, joining the firm’s office in Jamaica, Queens, New York are George Taitt, as group director and senior vice president; John Millwood, as associate group director; and Cindy Sankar, as a senior client associate.

Taitt was latterly the branch manager and vice president for CapitalOne Bank in Jamaica, Queens, where he worked with Sankar for five years. Millwood joins from JP Morgan Chase.

The private client team is the second to join Signature’s recently-launched Jamaica, Queens office – its twenty-fourth in the New York metropolitan area – after the bank added a team in December.

Completing its recruitment drive, Signature Bank named Todd Flamenbaum as group director and senior vice president of its private banking team headed by David Saunders in Melville, Long Island, New York. Flamenbaum was previously a senior vice president/senior client relationship manager at Bank of America in Melville.