---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000776901-25-000155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "INDB"
cik: "0000776901"
company_name: "INDEPENDENT BANK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T06:40:48.728182+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Independent Bank Corp. President Gerard F. Nadeau to retire; Jeffrey J. Tengel to add President role

## Summary
- Gerard F. Nadeau, age 66, President of Rockland Trust, notified retirement effective June 27, 2025.
- Nadeau will remain a director of the Company and Rockland Trust.
- Jeffrey J. Tengel, already CEO and President of the Company and CEO of Rockland Trust, will become President of Rockland Trust.
- Tengel's biographical info incorporated by reference from the 2025 proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000776901-25-000155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: INDB
- cik: 0000776901
- company_name: INDEPENDENT BANK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000155/0000776901-25-000155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000155/indb-20250509.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000155
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000155.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000776901-25-000155.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey J. Tengel was appointed as President of Rockland Trust at INDEPENDENT BANK CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President of Rockland Trust
  source text: The Board of Directors of Rockland Trust intends to appoint Jeffrey J. Tengel, who has served as the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and President of the Company and CEO of Rockland Trust since February 2023, to serve in the additional role of President of Rockland Trust.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000155/0000776901-25-000155-index.htm
- Executive change
  Gerard F. Nadeau retired as President of Rockland Trust at INDEPENDENT BANK CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: President of Rockland Trust
  source text: On May 9, 2025, Gerard F. Nadeau, age 66, President of Rockland Trust Company (“Rockland Trust”), a Massachusetts-chartered trust company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Independent Bank Corp. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his intention to retire from his role as President of Rockland Trust effective June 27, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/776901/000077690125000155/0000776901-25-000155-index.htm

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