Eric Halpern

Eric A. Halpern has been named the national head of healthcare lending at Leumi. He will oversee the bank’s healthcare commercial banking business in the U.S.

Halpern has spent the bulk of his career at Leumi, joining in 1987, and was most recently the group head in the New York Commercial Banking Division. He led that area’s healthcare lending growth with $300 million in the past few years.

He completed his bachelor’s degree at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and his MBA at Baruch College in New York.