Peapack Private Appoints Ana Parra as Senior Managing Director, Group Director
Posted October 5, 2026
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack Private Bank & Trust are pleased to announce the appointment of Ana Parra as Senior Managing Director, Group Director. Based in the Bank’s Park Avenue office in Manhattan, she will focus on serving the complex financial needs of high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, and privately held businesses while leading a team dedicated to delivering customized private banking solutions.
Parra brings more than 35 years of banking experience in private banking, relationship management, client service, lending coordination, deposit growth, treasury management, and wealth management referrals. Throughout her career, she has built trusted client relationships and provided strategic guidance tailored to clients’ evolving financial needs through a highly personalized approach to banking.
Prior to joining Peapack Private, Parra served as Vice President, Relationship Manager and Private Banker at IDB Bank. In that role, she managed relationships for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and operating companies across deposit, credit, liquidity, treasury, and wealth management services.
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Peapack Private Appoints Kevin Bertscha as Senior Vice President, Chief Audit Executive
Posted September 22, 2026
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack Private Bank & Trust are pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Bertscha, CPA, as Senior Vice President, Chief Audit Executive. In this role, Bertscha will lead the Bank’s internal audit function, overseeing audit strategy, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, internal controls, and governance processes supporting the Company’s commitment to strong governance, effective risk management, regulatory compliance, and sustainable growth.
Bertscha brings more than 30 years of financial services and internal audit experience, with a distinguished track record of overseeing audit programs for complex financial institutions, broker-dealers, and critical government securities clearing operations. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated expertise in risk management, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, corporate governance, and the implementation of best practices designed to strengthen organizational effectiveness and transparency.
Prior to joining Peapack Private, Bertscha served as Managing Director and Deputy Audit Director at Oppenheimer & Co., where he partnered with executive leadership to modernize the firm’s annual risk assessment process, enhance audit reporting frameworks, and oversee the execution of high-risk regulatory audits covering broker-dealer operations and financial risk management.
Peapack Private Expands Specialty Lending Capabilities with Launch of Yacht Financing Business
Posted September 9, 2026
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack Private announced today its entrance into the yacht financing business, further expanding the Bank’s suite of customized lending solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families and their advisors. As part of the launch, Peapack Private has hired industry veterans, Jim Velez, and Derick Buffum, to lead the new Yacht Financing team.
Velez brings more than four decades of specialized yacht finance experience to Peapack Private, with a proven track record of building and leading successful yacht lending businesses. Buffum brings extensive expertise in yacht lending, credit, and underwriting, with significant experience structuring complex financing solutions for ultra-high-net-worth clients. Together, they bring complementary expertise spanning business development, credit, underwriting, portfolio management, and the development and execution of specialized yacht lending programs.
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Peapack Private Bank & Trust Opens New Garden City Office, Expanding Its Private Banking Presence on Long Island
Posted September 1, 2026
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack Private Bank & Trust are pleased to announce the opening of the Company’s newly completed Garden City office, marking another milestone in the Bank's strategic expansion throughout the New York metropolitan market. The new office reinforces Peapack Private's commitment to serving Long Island's successful individuals, families, business owners, professionals, and institutions with a highly personalized approach to private banking, lending, and wealth management.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
Posted July 27, 2026
The Company reported second quarter 2026 financial results that reflect continued execution of its private banking strategy and demonstrate accelerating earnings momentum. Revenue increased for the ninth consecutive quarter while expense growth continued to normalize, producing another quarter of meaningful positive operating leverage.
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