Dr. Leon A. Palandjian has served as a director of the Company and Eastern Bank since the merger with Cambridge Bancorp and Cambridge Trust Company in July 2024. Dr. Palandjian served as a director of Cambridge and Cambridge Trust Company since 2006, was Lead Director of Cambridge s Board from 2014 until January 2017 and was chair of its Trust Committee. He serves as the Chief Risk Officer of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, a national real estate investment, development, and management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with responsibility for enterprise risk management and real estate capital market oversight. Dr. Palandjian has held his current role since 2017 after managing Intercontinental Capital Management LLC s fund-of-funds portfolio starting in 2007. Previously, he served as a Principal at Flagship Ventures, a life sciences venture capital company, from 2000 to 2003, and as a Portfolio Manager at Andesite LLC, a hedge fund focused on the life sciences sector, from 2003 to 2006. He serves on the Advisory Board of Massachusetts General Hospital s McCance Center for Brain Health, which researches how to prevent, detect early, and treat Alzheimer s disease, and has also served as a trustee of Mount Auburn Hospital. Dr. Palandjian holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College. He is a CFA charter holder.