---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000943374-22-000119"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBT"
cik: "0001108134"
company_name: "Beacon Financial Corp"
filed_at: "2022-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T23:04:49.560101+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Berkshire Hills appoints Harvard professor Mihir Desai as independent director

## Summary
- Appointment effective March 10, 2022; Desai will serve on Compliance & Regulatory and Risk Management & Capital Committees.
- Desai is Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
- He brings expertise in finance, tax policy; previously worked at CS First Boston and McKinsey.
- No arrangement or transaction requiring disclosure under SEC Regulation S-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000943374-22-000119
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBT
- cik: 0001108134
- company_name: Beacon Financial Corp
- filed_at: 2022-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108134/000094337422000119/0000943374-22-000119-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108134/000094337422000119/form8k_031022.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-22-000119
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-22-000119.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-22-000119.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mihir A. Desai was appointed as Director at Beacon Financial Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 10, 2022, the Board of Directors of Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Mihir A. Desai to the Board of Directors of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108134/000094337422000119/0000943374-22-000119-index.htm

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