City National Bank Hires Angel Chen as Pasadena Team Leader

City National Bank today announced that Angel Chen has joined Private Client Services as a senior vice president and team leader of its new satellite office in Pasadena. She will be part of an expanded private banking focus in Pasadena and will be joined by Michael Scott, a senior private client advisor, who joined the bank last year.

Chen will serve high-net-worth families, individuals, entrepreneurs and professional service firms in the Pasadena region to ensure that clients can take advantage of all the capabilities of City National, including credit, treasury and cash management, foreign exchange and private wealth management services. Chen, who speaks fluent Mandarin, will also focus on high-net-worth clients in the Chinese community in the San Gabriel Valley. She will report to Scott Witter, manager for Private Client Services in downtown Los Angeles.

“A veteran banker with more than a decade of experience in private banking, Angel will help City National establish deeper brand recognition in Pasadena and the surrounding communities, and create important relationships with the Asian population there,” said Witter.

Prior to joining City National, Chen was with Bank of the West in Los Angeles where she worked as a senior private client advisor on the wealth management team. She also worked at Wells Fargo and Union Bank of California in Los Angeles. Chen earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Irvine and her MBA from the University of Phoenix.

City National Bank is the wholly owned subsidiary of City National Corporation (NYSE:CYN). It is backed by $23.7 billion in total assets, and provides banking, investment and trust services through 79 offices, including 16 full-service regional centers, in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Nevada, New York City, Nashville, Tenn., and Atlanta. The company and its investment affiliates manage or administer $54.5 billion in client investment assets, including more than $31 billion under direct management. For more information about City National, visit the company’s Website at cnb.com.