John Babcock

Mr. John P.
Babcock is a Senior EVP & President-Private Wealth Management at Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corp., a Senior Executive Vice President at Peapack-Gladstone Bank and a SEVP & President-Private Wealth Management at Peapack Private Bank & Trust.
He is on the Board of Directors at The Purnell School, Inc. He is responsible for all of the Company’s wealth management activities including investment management, trust and fiduciary services, financial planning, custody, banking and lending solutions for high net worth, institutional and not-for profit clients.
He is a member of the Company’s Senior Management Executive Committee, the Asset and Liability Committee, the Firm Risk Committee, the New Jersey Trust Wealth Oversight Committee and is a board member of PGB Trust and Investment of Delaware.
He has over 40 plus year career he has led commercial and wealth management/private bank businesses in New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia and surrounding markets.
Immediately prior to joining the bank in 2014, he was the managing director in charge of the Northeast Mid-Atlantic region for the HSBC Private Bank.
Prior to that, he was the New York Metro Market Executive for U.S.
Trust - the largest of U.S.
Trust’s 53 markets in the U.S.
He is a 1980 graduate of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and has an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.