Signature Bank opened its first financial center on the West Coast in downtown San Francisco in the heart of the city’s financial district.

Signature Bank’s new banking offices will be home to three private client banking teams. Each team is headed by banking veterans, including Group Directors-Senior Vice Presidents Kelny Denebeim, Sumiko Sheaffer and Dale Zeigler.

Joe Petitti, head of West Coast Operations, will continue to lead Signature Bank’s West Coast expansion while John Knight, managing director – Cash Management Operations, oversees cash management products and services.

“For nearly 18 years, Signature Bank has been a leader in commercial banking throughout the New York metropolitan area. During this time, we built a strong and solid franchise, based on providing clients stellar relationship-based banking services, delivered by talented private client banking teams, equipped to handle all their needs. We determined that San Francisco would be a market ripe for our single-point-of contact model, based on the local penetration of privately-owned businesses including not-for-profit organizations – our niche target market – as well as mega bank market domination. Our differentiating service-oriented, client-centric model is most successful amid these types of business landscapes. We look forward to introducing our single-point-of-contact approach to the community,” said Signature President and CEO Joseph J. DePaolo.

The San Francisco private client banking office will provide a full suite of commercial banking products and services.