Leadership

Christopher Oddleifson has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Independent Bank Corp. since 2003. Rockland Trust, a full service commercial and retail bank, serves nearly 250,000 customers with over 1,100 employees. Rockland Trust has $7.8 billion in assets, $2.9 billion in assets under management and 100 retail branches and other offices located in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Active in industry and community affairs, Mr. Oddleifson is the Chairman of the Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Chairman of the South Shore Hospital Board, and is on the Board of the South Shore Health System. He recently ended his term as a member of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank Community Development Institution Advisory Council and also completed ten years as a member of the Old Colony Council’s Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors. Mr. Oddleifson has served as Chairman and a member of the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Greater Plymouth County Campaign. In addition, he has served as Chairman and Board member of the Cape Cod Community College and on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, serving as its Chairman during 2009-2010. Previously, Mr. Oddleifson was the President of First Union Home Equity Bank, a national banking subsidiary of First Union Corporation, and the Executive Vice President, responsible for Consumer Banking, for Signet Bank in Richmond, VA. He has also worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Mr. Oddleifson holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Nadeau was named the President of Rockland Trust on March 16, 2017. Mr. Nadeau previously served as the Executive Vice President, Commercial Lending of Rockland Trust since July 1, 2007. Mr. Nadeau has worked at Rockland Trust in a variety of capacities since 1984, serving as a Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending from 1992 until 2007.

Robert Cozzone is the current Chief Financial Officer of Rockland Trust. He has worked at Rockland Trust for 15 years and served as the Treasurer of Rockland Trust and Independent Bank Corp. from 2008 until September 2013. Past duties have included interest rate risk management, capital strategy oversight, asset/liability management, financial reporting, budget preparation and financial forecasting oversight, profitability analyses, and merger and acquisition modeling. Rob is a graduate of Bridgewater State University and received a Master's in Science from Boston College.

Ed Seksay is the General Counsel of Rockland Trust Company and its parent bank holding company Independent Bank Corp. He also serves as the Manager of Rockland Trust Company's New Markets Tax Credit lending program, which deploys awards of federal tax credits granted on a nationwide competitive basis through below market interest rate loans that promote job creation in low-income communities. Prior to joining Rockland Trust, Ed was with the Boston law firm of Heller, Levin & Seksay, P.C. from 1991 to 2000 and with the Boston law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart from 1984 to 1991. Ed is a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and currently serves as its Treasurer. He is a member of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition Board of Directors and currently serves as its Secretary. Ed is also the Founding Chairman of the American Bankers Association Regional Banks General Counsels Group and is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Ed is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, and the College of the Holy Cross.

Barry Jensen has worked at Rockland Trust for 15 years and currently serving as the Chief Information Officer. Previously, he served as Controller and the Principal Accounting Officer of Rockland Trust and Independent Bank Corp. Prior to joining Rockland Trust, Barry worked at Bay Bank as a Senior Financial Analyst. He is a graduate of Salem State University and received a Master's in Business Administration from Bentley University.

David Smith has served as Rockland Trust's Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer since 2005. Prior to that, he served as Senior Portfolio Manager and Senior Investment Officer for Rockland Trust. Before joining Rockland Trust, David was a founding partner, Senior Vice President, and Senior Portfolio Manager of Mellon Growth Advisors (MGA), a subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation. He has worked in the investment management field since 1990 and has also held positions at State Street Global Advisors and The Tuckerman Group. David is a CFA charterholder, a member of the CFA Institute, and the Boston Security Analysts Society. He serves on the SSgA Advisory Council and on the Advisory Board for the Finance Programs at the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and a Master's in Finance from the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University.

Jennifer Marino is the current Chief Marketing Officer and Customer Officer at Rockland Trust. She joined the company in late 2015 and has 20 years of extensive brand marketing experience for leading financial services and consumer companies. In her role, Jennifer is responsible for continuing to build a strong and distinct brand for the company while developing marketing strategies to earn new customer relationships and strengthen existing relationships with our current customers. Prior to joining Rockland Trust, Jennifer was a Vice President and Senior Manager at Liberty Mutual Insurance for eight years, most recently focusing on Customer Advocacy. Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Providence College and resides in North Easton.

Pamela Frey brings many years of banking experience to Rockland Trust as executive leader of the consumer and business banking division. In this role she oversees the Bank’s retail branches, business banking, premiere banking, and customer information center. Prior to joining Rockland Trust, she was Executive Vice President of Consumer Banking for CommunityOne Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. Previously, she held numerous leadership roles over the course of more than two decades at Wachovia Bank and First Union. Ms. Frey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Mathematics from Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She resides in Quincy, MA..

As the Director of Banking and Digital Operations at Rockland Trust, Debra Smith oversees the Deposit Operations, Electronic Banking, Loan Operations, Branch Operations, Risk Management, Digital Operations, and Customer Contact Center teams. In addition, she leads the fraud mitigation efforts for the Company, through technology selections and process refinement to meet the ever-changing fraud landscape. Prior to joining Rockland Trust Deb served as Executive Vice President and BSA (Bank Secrecy Act) Officer for First National Bank of Texas, a $1.5 billion institution headquartered in Killeen Texas. Previously she held various senior leadership roles at Sovereign Bank and Bank Boston. Deb holds an Associate degree in Management from Newbury College in Brookline, MA, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA. She resides in Plymouth with her husband and two children.

Maria Harris serves as Director of Rockland Trust’s Human Resources department. She joined the Bank in 2003 as a recruiter and later was promoted to Director of Recruitment and Colleague Relations. Previously she served as Recruiter for Zurich Scudder Investments and Recruitment Manager for the May Institute. A recipient of the Boston Business Journal’s Wellness Champion Award, and the 2010 Brockton’s Women of the Year Award. Mrs. Harris earned the distinction of SPHR and a Bachelors of Arts from Bridgewater State College. During her tenure at Rockland Trust, the Bank has been consistently ranked by The Boston Globe as one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts and recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the Best Places to Work for the LGBTQ community. In addition, Maria introduced Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focused on supporting diversity and inclusion n the workplace and the launch of RockFIT, an employee wellness program that promotes a culture of physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing through activities, events, information, and other resources.