Joseph T. Chung has served as a director of the Company and Eastern Bank and trustee of its predecessor holding company, Eastern Bank Corporation, since 2014. He is self-employed. He was Chief Technology Officer and Head of AI at Rippl Care, a position he held from April 2024 to November 2025. He was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kinto, a care coaching platform for family members caring for loved ones with Alzheimer s Disease and related dementias, where he served from 2019 to 2025. He was also co-founder and Managing Director of Redstar Ventures, an innovative venture foundry developing a series of new companies through a top down, market driven process, from 2010 to 2025. Prior to Kinto and Redstar, Mr. Chung was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Allurent and co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Art Technology Group, a publicly traded, global enterprise software company. Mr. Chung holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he conducted his graduate work at MIT s Media Lab. He is a Venture Partner at the Media Lab s E14 Fund.