New Jersey holding company Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation announced Joseph “Joe” Harpster has been named Senior Vice President and Senior Credit Officer at Peapack Private, a division of Peapack-Gladstone Bank.

A veteran private banking professional, Harpster joins Peapack Private from First Republic Bank, New York, NY, where since 2011, he served as Vice President, Senior Credit Officer, responsible for approving middle market, commercial and residential mortgage loans, and was a member of the bank’s Executive Loan Committee. He has held similar executive and senior level roles at HSBC Bank USA, and Republic National Bank, both in New York. Early in his career, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he conducted examinations of commercial banks and bank holding companies throughout the 2nd Federal Reserve District (NY State, Northern NJ, and Western Connecticut).

Harpster joins a team of private banking professionals recently hired by Peapack Private to develop and grow its presence in Manhattan and introduce its unique brand of banking and client service into the marketplace. He holds an MBA from St. John’s University in New York and a BA in Economics and History from Lafayette College, Easton, PA.