Shawn Mcgowen

Shawn McGowen is a career commercial banker who joined Bank Leumi USA in 2015 as Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Banking, and has since risen to Chief Banking Officer. In that role he has directed the expansion of Leumi's U.S. commercial banking operations, targeting middle-market companies with annual revenues generally above $5 million. Bank Leumi USA was the American subsidiary of Israel's Bank Leumi; in 2022 it was acquired by and merged into Valley National Bancorp, with Leumi's parent taking a stake in Valley.

Before Leumi, McGowen spent roughly four years at Citibank (approximately 2011–2015), where he served as President of Citi Commercial Bank for the West and Central regions and as Managing Director and National Head of the Upper Middle Market segment, leading business and commercial banking teams. Earlier in his career he held commercial-lending, treasury-management, and sales-management leadership roles at Wells Fargo and Wachovia (as a Division Sales Manager and leader of the Mid-Atlantic Treasury Management Sales team), with assignments spanning New York, Florida, California, and Virginia.

McGowen earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Guilford College. He is active in nonprofit governance, joining the Board of Directors of Project Sunshine (a nonprofit serving hospitalized children), and has previously served on the boards of the Opportunity Fund, the Team Play Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and the California Chamber of Commerce.

Some investor and company aggregators (e.g., Crunchbase, Foundersuite) additionally associate his name with a CEO role at Leather Honey LLC and classify him as an angel/seed investor. These aggregator attributions are unverified against a primary source and should be confirmed directly before relying on them, as automated databases frequently conflate individuals with the same name.

• Classified by investor databases (PitchBook, Foundersuite) as an individual/angel investor active at the seed stage; no publicly stated thesis, sector preference, or check size is available.
• His professional expertise is in commercial and middle-market banking — treasury management, commercial lending, and business banking for companies with revenues above roughly $5 million — which is the lens he brings to evaluating businesses.
• No self-authored investment thesis or public quotes about his angel investing could be located; treat the "seed" and "angel" labels as aggregator-assigned rather than self-declared.