AARON COHEN
EVP, Commercial & Corporate Banking
City National Bank
After a distinguished 27-year career at City National, Aaron Cohen was appointed in March to a newly created position as the leader of the Commercial & Corporate Banking Division. This division encompasses all of the bank’s commercial lines of business: Commercial Banking, National Corporate Banking, Commercial Real Estate Banking, and Specialty Banking.
With this promotion, Cohen also joined the bank’s most senior leadership team, its Strategy & Planning Committee (S&P). Before taking on his new role, Cohen was the manager of the bank’s Specialty Banking division since 2020. He led colleagues across the division’s six lending groups, which include structured finance, mortgage warehouse lending, franchise finance, renewable energy project finance, municipal leasing and capital finance. He also oversaw four product areas that supported the entire bank, including foreign exchange, interest rate risk management, syndications, and international banking and trade finance.
