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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001505732-24-000034"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BWFG"
cik: "0001505732"
company_name: "Bankwell Financial Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T16:31:40.569511+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bankwell designates Angelo Fusaro as principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Angelo Fusaro, CPA, age 38, appointed principal accounting officer for Bankwell Financial Group and Bankwell Bank, effective Jan 24, 2024.
- Fusaro has served as Director of Accounting and FP&A since Jan 2023; previously Director of Audit from 2018-2022.
- No family relationships or arrangements with directors/executives; no new contracts or related party transactions.
- Fusaro began his career at KPMG, serving as Audit Manager.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001505732-24-000034
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BWFG
- cik: 0001505732
- company_name: Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1505732/000150573224000034/0001505732-24-000034-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1505732/000150573224000034/bwfg-20240124.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001505732-24-000034.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Angelo Fusaro was appointed as principal accounting officer at Bankwell Financial Group, Inc..
  - Action: designated
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: On January 24, 2024, the Board of Directors of Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (the “Company”) designated Angelo Fusaro, CPA, as principal accounting officer of both the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bankwell Bank (the “Bank”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1505732/000150573224000034/0001505732-24-000034-index.htm

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