Aaron Cohen

Aaron Cohen is executive vice president and manager of City National Bank’s Specialty Banking division. He leads 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. Aaron also oversees four product areas that support the entire bank, including foreign exchange, interest rate risk management, syndications, and international banking and trade finance. He is also a member of the bank’s Executive Council. 

Aaron began his banking career at City National in 1996. He joined the bank’s structured finance unit in 2004, became manager in 2011 and executive vice president responsible for structured finance in 2016. He assumed his current position in 2020. 

Aaron serves as an executive sponsor of the bank’s Women’s Network and Asian American Network. He is also on the board of Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles, where he serves as treasurer, and he is an advisory board member with the Los Angeles chapter of Facing History and Ourselves.

Aaron earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Emory University and a master’s degree in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.