Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation and Peapack-Gladstone Bank announce the appointment of Patrick R. Brocker to the position of Senior Vice President. Based in the bank's Princeton location, Brocker is responsible for establishing the cash flow leveraged finance and asset based lending product capabilities for the bank. These products will play a critical role in wealth creation, preservation, diversification and succession strategies for many of our private banking clients and prospects who own businesses by facilitating the purchase, sale, rapid expansion or rehabilitation of businesses.

Brocker brings over 30 years of financial services experience to Peapack-Gladstone Bank with a concentration in asset based and middle market leveraged finance and expertise in origination, underwriting and relationship management. Through the years, Patrick delivered value added solutions that created substantial wealth for prospects and clients as well as decades of exceptional returns for the institutions he represented, maximizing safe and profitable growth most recently as Chief Credit Officer at BNB Hana Bank, National Association - NY & NJ. Previously, he served in key roles in NYC as President and Executive Vice President at AmSouth Capital, a national Leveraged Lending and Asset Based Lending unit of AmSouth Bank; Senior Vice President, Northeast Marketing Manager, at Fleet Capital; and Senior Vice President, Division Head at NatWest Specialized Finance.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation is a New Jersey bank holding company with total assets of $2.70 billion as of December 31, 2014.