Brookline Bancorp, Inc.'s Co-President and Chief Operating Officer Michael McCurdy announced three key changes affecting leadership positions at Brookline Bancorp, Inc. After fifteen years as the Company?s Chief Operations Officer, James Cosman will retire effective April 1, 2024. Cosman will remain with the Company on a part-time basis and work on special projects. Mona Macero, currently Senior Vice President, Managing Director of the Commercial Markets Payment Group at the Company, will assume the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer upon Cosman?s retirement.

Macero will oversee the Company?s Commercial Payments, Information Technology, Information Security, and Support and Administrative Services areas and report directly to McCurdy. Kelly Bressette, currently Director of Loan Operations, will become Executive Vice President, Director of Operations, overseeing Loan and Deposit Operations and Mortgage Underwriting. Bressette will report directly to McCurdy.

Jim Cosman joined the Company in 2009 as Chief Operations Officer. Previously, Cosman served in executive and management roles at BayBank, Bank of Boston and, most recently, from 1999 to 2009 as a Systems and Operations Executive at Sovereign Bank. Mona Macero has been Senior Vice President, Managing Director of the Commercial Markets Payment Group at the Company since 2019.

Previously, Macero held leadership positions at Blue Hills Bank, Century Bank, US Trust and Citizens Bank. Additionally, Macero has experience as the Chief Information Officer at Endurance Capital. Kelly Bressette has been Senior Vice President, Director of Loan Operations since 2018.

From 2016 to 2018 Bressette served as Senior Vice President, Operations Director at Eastern Bank. Additionally, Bressette has held senior operations and management roles at Middlesex Savings Bank, Fleet Bank and BankBoston.