---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000943374-24-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001778784"
company_name: "Provident Bancorp, Inc. /MD/"
filed_at: "2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T16:38:10.939909+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Provident Bancorp appoints Dennis Pollack to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Dennis Pollack appointed to Board effective Jan 25, 2024, and to BankProv board concurrently.
- Appointment made pursuant to previously disclosed agreement with Stilwell Activist Fund.
- Pollack formerly President/CEO of Prudential Bank; has extensive banking executive experience.
- Bylaws amended to remove director residency requirement and increase maximum age limit to 75.
- Pollack will receive standard non-employee director compensation and equity awards under the agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000943374-24-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001778784
- company_name: Provident Bancorp, Inc. /MD/
- filed_at: 2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1778784/000094337424000026/0000943374-24-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1778784/000094337424000026/form8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-24-000026
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-24-000026.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-24-000026.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dennis Pollack was appointed as Director at Provident Bancorp, Inc. /MD/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 25, 2024, the Board of Directors of Provident Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Dennis Pollack to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1778784/000094337424000026/0000943374-24-000026-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Provident Bancorp, Inc. /MD/: Amended Article II, Section 12(a) of Bylaws to remove residency requirement and increase director age limit to 75 (effective 2024-01-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-25
  source text: On January 25, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Company amended Article II, Section 12(a) of the Company’s Bylaws to remove a residency requirement and to increase the age limitation on service as a director to 75.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1778784/000094337424000026/0000943374-24-000026-index.htm

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