Robert F. Rivers is the Executive Chair and Chair of the Boards of Directors of the Company and Eastern Bank since the merger with Cambridge Bancorp and Cambridge Trust Company in July 2024. Prior to that merger, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Bank and its predecessor holding company, Eastern Bank Corporation since January 1, 2017. Mr. Rivers joined Eastern Bank in 2006 as its Vice Chair and Chief Banking Officer, becoming President in 2007, President and Chief Operating Officer in 2012, and was elected an Eastern Bank Director in 2015. Immediately prior to joining Eastern, he was an Executive Vice President for Retail Banking at the former Commercial Federal Bank in Omaha, Nebraska. From 1991 to 2005, Mr. Rivers held several staff and line leadership positions at M&T Bank in Buffalo, NY. Mr. Rivers has over 40 years of community banking experience and is a graduate of Stonehill College and the University of Rochester s Simon Business School. For the past four years, he has been appointed to the Federal Reserve s Federal Advisory Council. Mr. Rivers is involved extensively in the community, serving as Chair of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Board of Directors and is on the Board of Directors of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, The Lowell Plan, and The New England Council. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stonehill College, the Advisory Boards of the Lawrence Partnership and UTEC, as well as the Boston Women s Workforce Council and The Boston Club, and the Mass FinTech Hub. Mr. Rivers also Co-Chairs the Massachusetts Business Coalition for Early Childhood Education. Most recently, he was appointed by the Healey-Driscoll administration as Chair of MA250, commemorating the many events across the state that led to America s independence.