Gary Walker
Senior Managing Director, Wealth Advisor, Peapack Private
Gary E. Walker is a Senior Managing Director, Wealth Private Banker for the wealth management division of Peapack-Gladstone Bank. He is a lead point of contact for the Bank’s new and existing individual client relationships in the development and coordination of comprehensive wealth management plans, offering the Bank’s full array of customized, private banking services. In working with individuals and family relationships, he is responsible for implementing and monitoring comprehensive estate, tax and financial planning while providing the Bank’s one-touch client service.
Mr. Walker has over 32 years of experience in both the financial services and legal arenas. Before joining Peapack-Gladstone Bank, he served as Vice President, Relationship Manager at Glenmede Trust Company, N.A. As the senior wealth advisor for their Morristown and Princeton, New Jersey offices, he worked with clients and their outside advisors on estate, tax and financial planning solutions for their most complex family relationships. Prior to that Gary served as an attorney in the private law sector most recently as a Partner at Herold and Haines, P.A., specializing in estate and tax planning as well as trust and estate litigation and administration. Mr. Walker’s former experience also includes service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a Special Agent.
A resident of Bernardsville, New Jersey, Mr. Walker holds a B.S. in Accounting, summa cum laude from Manhattan College, a JD, Cum Laude from Boston College Law School, a Masters of Law in Taxation (LL.M) from New York University School of Law and has earned the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification. Gary has served as Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Mid-Jersey Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Member, Board of Trustees of the Somerset Hills YMCA; Member, Board of Trustees of the Somerset Hills Handicapped Riding Center; and President of the Greater Middlesex/Somerset Estate Planning Council. He is currently a Member, Board of Trustees of the Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey and a Member, Bergen County Estate Planning Council. Gary was formerly active in coaching youth soccer, basketball, baseball and softball and has lectured for the New Jersey Skills and Methods Program for Newly Admitted Attorneys on the subjects of estate planning and administration.
