FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
06/07/06

For Further Information Please Contact:

Paul Carpinella
Marketing Assistant
Brookline Bank
617-730-3600 X3612

Lori B. Leeth Joins Brookline Bank

as Vice President, Relationship Manager

Brookline, MA, 06/07/06 – Brookline Bank announced that Lori B. Leeth has joined the Bank and will serve as Vice President, Relationship Manager within the Bank’s Commercial Lending division.  She will be based in the Bank’s Main Office in Brookline Village.

Ms. Leeth will be responsible to further develop the Bank’s commercial lending portfolio, and service the accounts of customers within that portfolio.

Ms. Leeth has over twenty-eight years of commercial lending experience.  She most recently served as a Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending with Citizens Bank.  She has also served in Vice President level positions at Shawmut Bank and RepublicBank Dallas, and has served as an Assistant Vice President with First Union National Bank of North Carolina.

Ms. Leeth holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maine, Orono. She also holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

Ms. Leeth currently resides in Needham, Massachusetts with her husband John.  She is a Director with the Massachusetts Maternity and Foundling Hospital, a foundation which helps unwed mothers.

“We are pleased to bring Lori’s breadth of commercial lending experience to Brookline Bank,” stated Brookline Bank President and Senior Lending Officer Charles Peck.  “Her extensive experience will help us better serve the businesses in Greater Boston.”

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Brookline Bank is the sole subsidiary of Brookline Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRKL), headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. Brookline Bank is a full-service community bank serving Greater Boston with branches in Arlington, Bedford, Brookline, Lexington, Malden, Medford, Newton and West Roxbury. To find out more about Brookline Bank, visit our website at BrooklineBank.com or call us at 1-877-668-2265.