Brookline Bancorp Chairman & CEO Paul Perrault announced three key changes affecting leadership positions at Brookline Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) and Bank Rhode Island, its Rhode Island subsidiary bank. After thirteen years as the Company's Chief Credit Officer, M. Robert Rose will retire effective November 1, 2022. Rose will remain with the Company as an executive officer and assume a leadership position with the Company's board and management credit committees.

M. Robert Rose joined Brookline Bank in 2009. From 2000 until 2004, Mr. Rose was the Chief Credit Risk Management Officer of Sovereign Bank, and from 2004 until 2009 he served as that Bank's Chief Risk Officer. Prior to his tenure at Sovereign Bank, he held senior credit and risk management positions at Bank of Boston/Fleet Bank and BayBanks, Inc. Mr. Rose has served as both Chairman of the Board of Directors and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Risk Management Association and is the former Chairman of the Board of the Risk Management Association Foundation, a not-for-profit organization whose mission involves the development of banking curriculum and education, and granting scholarships and grants to undergraduate and graduate students entering the banking industry.

Mark Meiklejohn, currently President and CEO of Bank Rhode Island, will assume the role of the Company's Chief Credit Officer upon Rose's retirement. William Tsonos will replace Mark Meiklejohn and become President and CEO of Bank Rhode Island. Tsonos currently serves as Executive Vice President, Commercial Lending at Bank Rhode Island.

Mark J. Meiklejohn has been President and CEO of Bank Rhode Island and a member of its Board of Directors since 2012. He joined the Bank in 2006 as Director of Commercial Banking, and in 2008 became the Bank's Chief Lending Officer. Meiklejohn came to Bank Rhode Island from Citizens Bank where he was a Senior Vice President in Middle Market Lending.

He began his career at Fleet Bank in 1985. A lifelong Rhode Island resident, Meiklejohn is active in various industry groups, including the Rhode Island Banker's Association, the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council and the Providence Foundation. He and his family live in Wakefield.Will Tsonos has been with Bank Rhode Island since 2006.

Most recently, as Executive Vice President, Commercial Lending, he has been responsible for growing the Bank's commercial loan portfolio and commercial deposits. Before joining Bank Rhode Island, he was a Senior Vice President for Middle Market Lending at Citizens Bank. Tsonos is a Governor of The Miriam Hospital Foundation and is Vice Chairman of the Woonsocket (Rhode Island) Investment Board.

He is a resident of Woonsocket.