---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001046025-21-000144"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HFWA"
cik: "0001046025"
company_name: "HERITAGE FINANCIAL CORP /WA/"
filed_at: "2021-07-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T07:06:41.271998+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Heritage Bank promotes Bryan D. McDonald to President and COO effective July 1, 2021

## Summary
- Bryan McDonald, age 49, named President & COO of Heritage Bank, effective July 1, 2021.
- McDonald previously served as EVP & COO; joined Heritage in 2014 from Whidbey Island Bank.
- Addendum to McDonald's employment agreement signed on July 1, 2021 (filed as Exhibit 10.1).
- CEO Jeff Deuel cited McDonald's leadership in navigating recent challenges.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001046025-21-000144
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HFWA
- cik: 0001046025
- company_name: HERITAGE FINANCIAL CORP /WA/
- filed_at: 2021-07-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1046025/000104602521000144/0001046025-21-000144-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046025/000104602521000144/hfwa-20210701.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001046025-21-000144.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bryan D. McDonald changed role as President and Chief Operating Officer at HERITAGE FINANCIAL CORP /WA/.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On July 1, 2021, Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company"), the parent company of Heritage Bank ("Bank"), issued a press release announcing the promotion of Bryan D. McDonald, age 49, to President and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank effective July 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046025/000104602521000144/0001046025-21-000144-index.htm

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