---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000776901-25-000078"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "INDB"
cik: "0000776901"
company_name: "INDEPENDENT BANK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:36:51.899924+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Independent Bank Corp appoints O'Leary, Perry, Ramesh to board effective April 1, 2025

## Summary
- Board expands from 12 to 15 members; Class I and Class III directors increased accordingly.
- Leif O'Leary (CEO of Alegeus Technologies), Dawn Perry (Chief Risk & Audit Officer at BCBS), and Aparna Ramesh (CFO of Farmer Mac) join.
- Each new director is independent under Nasdaq rules and Company governance principles.
- No committee assignments yet; compensation follows standard non-employee director policies prorated for 2025.
- Appointments effective April 1, 2025 with staggered terms (Perry Class I through 2027; O'Leary and Ramesh Class III through 2026).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000776901-25-000078
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: INDB
- cik: 0000776901
- company_name: INDEPENDENT BANK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000078/0000776901-25-000078-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000078/indb-20250220.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000078.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dawn Perry was appointed as Director at INDEPENDENT BANK CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 20, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Independent Bank Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Leif O’Leary, Dawn Perry, and Aparna Ramesh (collectively, the “New Directors”) as members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000078/0000776901-25-000078-index.htm
- Executive change
  Leif O’Leary was appointed as Director at INDEPENDENT BANK CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 20, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Independent Bank Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Leif O’Leary, Dawn Perry, and Aparna Ramesh (collectively, the “New Directors”) as members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000078/0000776901-25-000078-index.htm
- Executive change
  Aparna Ramesh was appointed as Director at INDEPENDENT BANK CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 20, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Independent Bank Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Leif O’Leary, Dawn Perry, and Aparna Ramesh (collectively, the “New Directors”) as members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000078/0000776901-25-000078-index.htm

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