---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-085453"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECBK"
cik: "0001914605"
company_name: "ECB Bancorp, Inc. /MD/"
filed_at: "2024-07-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T18:12:51.173477+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ECB Bancorp appoints Brandon Lavertu as CFO effective July 17, 2024

## Summary
- Brandon N. Lavertu, previously SVP and CAO, promoted to CFO of ECB Bancorp and Everett Co-operative Bank.
- Lavertu will serve as principal financial and accounting officer; John A. Citrano remains EVP and COO.
- Lavertu has been with the company since 2022; prior roles at Cambridge Savings Bank and Belmont Savings Bank.
- No new compensation or material amendments; pre-existing change-in-control agreement from 2022 unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-085453
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECBK
- cik: 0001914605
- company_name: ECB Bancorp, Inc. /MD/
- filed_at: 2024-07-23T23:59:59+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/1914605/000095017024085453/0000950170-24-085453-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1914605/000095017024085453/ecbk-20240717.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-085453
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-085453.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-085453.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brandon N. Lavertu was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at ECB Bancorp, Inc. /MD/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On July 17, 2024, the Board of Directors of ECB Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) and Everett Co-operative Bank (the “Bank”) appointed Brandon N. Lavertu, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company and the Bank, as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank effective as of July 17, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1914605/000095017024085453/0000950170-24-085453-index.htm

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