Ronald K. Perry and Brian G. Leary have joined the board of trustees of Hyde Park Bancorp, MHC and the Blue Hills Bank board of directors.

"As we progress on the transformation of our Company, we need to extend our functional expertise and connection to the communities we currently serve and those we aspire to serve. [Perry] and [Leary] are well respected business people with a mutual commitment to our vision of relationship based community banking. We continue to build our board with thought leaders in the business community, and [Perry] and [Leary] certainly fit that profile.  I am delighted to have them on our team," said William M. Parent, president and CEO of Blue Hills Bank.

Perry is the president and head of brokerage at Colliers International. Perry began his career at Meredith & Grew, becoming head of the brokerage group in 2007. He was appointed president of the firm in March 2010.  Perry is a licensed real estate broker and a member of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and Commercial Brokers Association. A graduate of the College of Holy Cross, he serves on the board of directors for Catholic Memorial High School and is a Big East color commentator. 

Leary is a partner at McCarter & English, Attorneys at Law. His practice includes the defense of government enforcement actions and consumer and wage and hour class actions. Prior to joining the firm, Leary was the founder and CEO of Mogall, Inc., an early pioneer of social networking, and Arctius Corp., a leading developer of knowledge management software. He also was a nationally recognized reporter and anchor for WCVB-TV, and received the George Foster Peabody Award for investigative reporting in 1997. Leary is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is an active volunteer and serves on the board of directors of the New England Legal Foundation and Catholic Memorial School.