Bank Leumi hired Mario De Lecce as group head, U.S. Tech and John Bryson as a relationship manager. Both will join the bank’s growing technology banking team and lead its U.S.-focused tech business, helping to expand the client base beyond tech companies with Israeli roots.
De Lecce will serve as Group Head, U.S. Tech and joins Leumi from Wells Fargo; Bryson will be a Relationship Manager within the group and most recently worked at FastPay.
“Our ability to attract top talent like Mario and John speaks to Leumi’s leadership in the tech space, and we’re excited to have them on board to help expand our offerings and the pool of companies we can serve,” said Shawn McGowen, head of Commercial Banking. “This strategic expansion reflects our long-term commitment to supporting the U.S. tech sector under the direction of Eitan Sapir, head of International and Technology Banking.”
De Lecce comes to Leumi with extensive experience building and running technology groups for corporate and commercial divisions of several large banks. Most recently, he served as a director and senior relationship manager at Wells Fargo, where he established a Corporate Banking TMT Group in New York. Earlier, he helped form and build a nationwide large-cap TMT segment at HSBC in San Francisco, closing more than $400M in new commitments and onboarding 10 new clients.
Bryson joins Leumi from fintech platform FastPay, where he served as director of Business Development and established the company’s financial solutions segment for the New York office. Prior to that, Bryson spent several years in senior account roles at Onswipe, MaxPoint Interactive and Interclick/Genome.
