Ryan Peene

Ryan Peene has joined Unity Bank as senior vice president/chief depository officer, bringing extensive financial services industry leadership experience to the community bank. Peene leads the development and execution of Unity’s retail banking operations and is responsible for the growth and retention of municipal deposit relationships.

Most recently, Peene was senior vice president and director of market growth and development with Spencer Savings Bank. Previously, he was senior vice president of government banking and corporate development at SB One Bank. He also worked as a consultant with MBI Public Affairs, one of New Jersey’s largest public affairs firms.

In 2019, Peene received the 40 Under 40 award from NJBIZ magazine. He is a commissioner on the Hoboken Planning Board and served as vice chairman from 2017-2019. Peene is a member and treasurer of the Board of Directors of Greater Bergen Community Action and a board member of the Waterfront Project in Jersey City, which provides free legal services to those in need. He is a member of the NJBankers Government Relations Committee; an honorary member of the Hudson County Chiefs of Police Association; former member of the New Jersey Council on Local Mandates; and served as a trustee on the Board of Bergen Catholic High School from 2012-2015.

Peene graduated from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business with a master’s degree in nonprofit business administration and from Rutgers University with an undergraduate degree in political science. In 2018, he graduated from the Wharton University of Pennsylvania’s American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking.