Dr. Zelleke has served as a director of the Company and Eastern Bank since the merger with Cambridge Bancorp and Cambridge Trust Company in July 2024. He had served on the boards of Cambridge Bancorp and Cambridge Trust Company since October 2022, and previously served as a director of Innodata Inc., a global data engineering company, from 2012 through 2018. He brings to the Board approximately three decades of experience with corporate governance, leadership and management, negotiation, and law. He currently serves as the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a role he has held since 2011, after previously serving on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2007-2011 and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2003-2007. He has also previously served as Project Director and Steering Committee member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Corporate Responsibility Project, and as Co-Director of the Harvard Kennedy School s Center for Public Leadership. Dr. Zelleke co-edited Restoring Trust in American Business (MIT Press, 2005) and has authored articles and cases on corporate governance and on international affairs. In July 2024, Dr. Zelleke was appointed the Faculty Chair of Harvard Business School s Middle East, North Africa & Central Asia Research Center, a Boston-based leadership role. He is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Early in his career, he practiced corporate law at two multinational law firms, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and White & Case LLP, and he also taught at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law. Dr. Zelleke received an A.B. in Government, A.M. in Sociology, J.D., and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University.