Peapack-Gladstone Bank appointed Robert A. Plante to the position of executive vice president, chief operating officer, effective later this quarter.

Plante is a seasoned executive, proficient in tactical and operational leadership within the financial services industry.

He most recently served as executive vice president and chief operations officer/chief information officer at IDB New York, a $9.8 billion commercial bank, where he was a member of the credit risk, market risk and asset liability committees. In his role, he was responsible for all back-office support functions including payments, deposits, commercial and residential lending, treasury, custody, commercial cash management and information technology.

“Bob has a tremendous operations and technology background and is already familiar with all of our core vendors in both wealth and retail. His expertise in operations, project management and technology will add considerable depth to our executive team,” said Doug Kennedy, president and CEO.

An experienced banker, Plante has also held leadership positions at The CIT Group, a global commercial and consumer finance company with $5.6 billion in revenue and more than 7,000 employees in 31 countries, and at GE Capital Global Consumer Finance, where he was a member of the senior management team responsible for technical strategy development and integration, systems selection and implementation, data center consolidation, acquisition due diligence and organizational planning and recruiting.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial is a New Jersey bank holding company with total assets of $3.88 billion as of December 31, 2016.