Maria Hamada
Bernadette Hamada is a Senior Vice President and Private Client Manager with Bank of America Private Bank in Florham Park, New Jersey. With more than 25 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, she advises high-net-worth individuals and families, delivering tailored strategies to help them manage, grow, and preserve their wealth. Bernadette partners with a team of specialists to provide comprehensive, customized financial solutions across investment management, structured credit and lending, and wealth planning. Her client-focused approach emphasizes thoughtful advice, disciplined execution, and long-term relationship management.
Prior to joining Bank of America Private Bank in 2023, Bernadette spent a decade at Wells Fargo as a Coverage Banker and Relationship Manager within the Commercial Real Estate group, where she primarily served real estate families and institutional clients. Earlier in her career, she developed deep expertise in commercial real estate finance at JPMorgan’s Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities group. She began her career in JPMorgan’s Private Bank, where she delivered creative credit and liquidity solutions to high-net-worth clients.
Bernadette earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Information Systems from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She resides in Bernardsville, New Jersey, with her husband and three children. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking and traveling.
For more than 200 years, Bank of America Private Bank has helped clients navigate the complex challenges of managing significant wealth. We draw on the Private Bank's personalized approach, as well as the resources of Bank of America, to help individuals and families, businesses, and institutions achieve their financial objectives. Whether you're looking to preserve and share wealth, build philanthropic legacies, or plan future growth, our commitment is to make your goals our priority. At Bank of America Private Bank, we take pride in our history and in serving our clients' best interest. We also value the continual pursuit of innovation in a constantly transforming world. We apply this perspective to help our clients anticipate and respond to evolving markets, changing environments and the growing complexities of the financial landscape. Mindful of the past, our focus in on providing today's clients with disciplined financial strategies and a bridge across generations.