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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000846617-22-000075"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DCOM"
cik: "0000846617"
company_name: "Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/"
filed_at: "2022-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T03:26:53.436927+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dime Community Bancshares CAO Leslie Veluswamy resigns effective Nov 4, 2022

## Summary
- Chief Accounting Officer Leslie Veluswamy resigns effective November 4, 2022 to pursue another career opportunity.
- Resignation not related to any disagreement with the Company or its independent auditor on accounting principles, disclosures, internal controls, or operations.
- No replacement named; responsibilities likely assumed by other officers until successor is appointed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000846617-22-000075
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DCOM
- cik: 0000846617
- company_name: Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
- filed_at: 2022-10-17T23:59:59+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/846617/000084661722000075/0000846617-22-000075-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846617/000084661722000075/dcom-20221012x8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000846617-22-000075
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000846617-22-000075.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leslie Veluswamy resigned as Chief Accounting Officer at Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On October 12, 2022, Leslie Veluswamy informed Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Dime Community Bank (the “Bank”), that she is resigning from her role as Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of the Company and the Bank effective November 4, 2022 to pursue another career opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846617/000084661722000075/0000846617-22-000075-index.htm

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