---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000846617-23-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DCOM"
cik: "0000846617"
company_name: "Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/"
filed_at: "2023-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T08:51:34.819571+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CFO Avinash Reddy adds principal accounting officer role after Leslie Veluswamy resigns

## Summary
- Avinash Reddy appointed principal accounting officer effective January 26, 2023.
- Reddy, already Senior EVP and CFO, replaces Leslie Veluswamy who resigned as principal accounting officer.
- No new compensatory arrangements or transactions entered into with Reddy in connection with the appointment.
- No family relationships with directors or executive officers; no arrangements or understandings with any person regarding the appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000846617-23-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DCOM
- cik: 0000846617
- company_name: Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
- filed_at: 2023-01-26T23:59:59+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/846617/000084661723000002/0000846617-23-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846617/000084661723000002/dcom-20230126x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000846617-23-000002
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000846617-23-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Avinash Reddy was appointed as principal accounting officer at Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: On January 26, 2023, Avinash Reddy, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”), was appointed to the additional position of principal accounting officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846617/000084661723000002/0000846617-23-000002-index.htm
- Executive change
  Leslie Veluswamy resigned as principal accounting officer at Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Mr. Reddy replaces Leslie Veluswamy, who previously resigned as principal accounting officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/846617/000084661723000002/0000846617-23-000002-index.htm

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