---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001050441-24-000109"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EGBN"
cik: "0001050441"
company_name: "EAGLE BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-07-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T14:48:48.118194+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eagle Bancorp appoints former M&T Bank CRE credit officer Pete Mathews to board

## Summary
- Louis P. 'Pete' Mathews Jr. elected to board of Eagle Bancorp and EagleBank effective July 26, 2024.
- Mathews brings 45+ years of CRE and credit experience; was Senior Deputy Credit Officer at M&T Bank until 2022.
- Board expands to 10 members, 8 independent; Mathews will serve on Asset Quality Subcommittee of Risk Committee.
- Mathews receives standard non-employee director compensation as described in April 2024 proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001050441-24-000109
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EGBN
- cik: 0001050441
- company_name: EAGLE BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-07-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000109/0001050441-24-000109-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000109/gnw-20240726.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-24-000109
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-24-000109.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-24-000109.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Louis P. "Pete" Mathews Jr. was elected as director at EAGLE BANCORP INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On July 26, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”), the parent company of EagleBank (the “Bank”), and the Board of Directors of the Bank, upon the recommendation of the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board, elected Louis P. “Pete” Mathews Jr. as a director of the Company and of the Bank, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000109/0001050441-24-000109-index.htm

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