---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000776901-22-000128"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "INDB"
cik: "0000776901"
company_name: "INDEPENDENT BANK CORP"
filed_at: "2022-06-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T03:42:39.968987+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Independent Bank Corp. director Frederick Taw retires at age 72 under board governance policy

## Summary
- Frederick Taw retired from the Boards of Independent Bank Corp. and Rockland Trust effective June 8, 2022.
- Retirement is mandatory upon reaching age 72 per the Company's Governance Principles.
- Board size reduced from 15 to 14 directors; Class I directors decreased from 5 to 4.
- Taw had served as a director since 2015 following the merger of Peoples Federal Bancshares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000776901-22-000128
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: INDB
- cik: 0000776901
- company_name: INDEPENDENT BANK CORP
- filed_at: 2022-06-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690122000128/0000776901-22-000128-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690122000128/indb-20220608.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-22-000128
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-22-000128.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-22-000128.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Frederick Taw retired as Director at INDEPENDENT BANK CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: Frederick Taw, who has served as a Director of Rockland Trust Company ("Rockland Trust") and Independent Bank Corp. (the "Company") since 2015, will retire from the Board of Directors, effective June 8, 2022, in accordance with the Company's Governance Principles as Mr. Taw reaches the age of 72.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690122000128/0000776901-22-000128-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.