Wells Fargo & Co. has promoted John Epstein to executive vice president in its community lending and investment department.
The San Francisco company said Tuesday that Epstein, who was previously a senior vice president, manages 43 employees who provide financing to multi-family affordable housing construction projects throughout the U.S. He is based in Portland and oversees teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Fort Worth, New York, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Epstein began his career in 1988 at First Interstate Bancorp in Houston as a real estate workout relationship manager and later transferred to Oregon for a similar position. He joined the community lending and investment group in 1995. Wells Fargo acquired First Interstate in 1996.
