Central Bancorp Inc.

William P. Morrissey was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company and the Bank in February 2009. Mr. Morrissey joined the Bank in November 1992 and was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank in April 2005. Until his promotion, he served as Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs. Mr. Morrissey is a former chairman and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. Prior to 1992, Mr. Morrissey served as Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs at The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank and as Deputy Commissioner of Banks for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Morrissey is the father of Director John J. Morrissey.

David W. Kearn , 67, joined the Bank in June 1993 and was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President Senior Lending Officer of the Bank in April 2005. Until his promotion, he served as the Senior Vice President Lending of the Company and the Bank. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Kearn was a Vice President of Loan Administration at Somerset Savings Bank, Somerville, Massachusetts and was Senior Vice President/Branch Administration at United States Trust Company from 1987 to 1990. He is a former Director of the Somerville Boys Club. He also serves as a Director of the Bank s subsidiaries, Central Securities Corporation and Central Securities Corporation II and as a Manager of the Bank s subsidiary Metro Real Estate Holding, LLC.

Shirley M. Tracy , 54, joined the Bank in October 1982 and was promoted to the position of Senior Vice President/Director of Human Resources in October 2004. Until her promotion, she served as Vice President/Director of Human Resources from 1993 to 2004. From 1978 to 1982, Ms. Tracy served in various positions at the Volunteer Cooperative Bank in Boston. Ms. Tracy received the Certificate in Human Resources Administration from Bentley College and holds an undergraduate degree from Regis College.

Bryan E. Greenbaum , 46, joined the Bank in January 2005 as Senior Vice President of Retail Banking. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Greenbaum served as Vice President of Branch Administration and later as Senior Vice President of Retail Banking at Abington Savings Bank. Previous to 2000, Mr. Greenbaum held various retail management positions at both Salem Five Cents Savings Bank and Warren Five Cents Savings Bank.

Edward F. Sweeney, Jr. is self-employed as a financial/management advisor. Since December 2002, he has served as a business consultant to the Malden Redevelopment Authority, an agency funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to work with communities to promote home ownership for low and moderate income families. In October 2005, Mr. Sweeney was also appointed to serve as Commissioner of the Department of Public Works. From March 1999 to October 2005, Mr. Sweeney served as Commissioner and former Chairman of the Malden Housing Authority. From May 1998 to December 2000, he served as Senior Vice President of US Trust, a $6 billion multi-bank holding company in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1996 to May 1998, Mr. Sweeney served as Senior Vice President of Somerset Savings Bank, Somerville, Massachusetts. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Sweeney was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Meetinghouse Co-operative Bank in Dorchester, Massachusetts. From 1966 to 1994, Mr. Sweeney served with the Division of Banking for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He retired as Senior Deputy Commissioner in 1994.

James F. Linnehan is an attorney and a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Linnehan has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and as a Special Investigator for the Suffolk County District Attorney s office. He is a life trustee of the Board of Trustees of Suffolk University. He is a former director and chairman of the audit and trust committees of BayBank Middlesex.

Stephen A. Calhoun , 56, joined the Bank in January 2005 as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Calhoun served as Senior Vice President of Information Technology for First Essex Bank/Sovereign Bank in Andover, Massachusetts. Previous to 1999, Mr. Calhoun was Vice President of Operations and Systems for Somerset Bank/U.S. Trust.

Paul E. Bulman has served as Chairman of the Policy Holders Protective Board of the Savings Bank Life Insurance Company since 2000. From 1996 to 2000, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Haymarket Co-operative Bank. Mr. Bulman had previously served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Hingham Institution for Savings, which he had joined in 1988. Prior to that, he had been Senior Vice President, Lending at New Bedford Institution for Savings since 1987. Mr. Bulman served as Commissioner of Banks for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1983 to 1987 after serving as First Deputy Commissioner and Clerk, Deputy Commissioner, Bank Supervisor and Director, Commercial Bank Examinations. He joined the State Banking Department in 1960. Mr. Bulman is a volunteer at the Scituate Senior Center.

Albert J. Mercuri, Jr. has served since 1987 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Direct, Inc., a national distributor of digital media publishing systems, optical media and copiers, located in Needham Heights, Massachusetts. Mr. Mercuri is a 1979 graduate of Babson College where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.

Gregory W. Boulos is a partner in CB Richard Ellis/The Boulos Company of Portland, Maine, which is Maine s largest commercial real estate brokerage and development firm, specializing in the sale and leasing of commercial/industrial properties and the brokerage of investment properties. Mr. Boulos is a past Director of Junior Achievement, The Center for Dental Health, Mercy Hospital and The Portland Symphony Orchestra. He is also a past Chairman of both the Cumberland County Civic Center and Catholic Charities Maine Board of Directors. Mr. Boulos is a member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, the Maine Commercial Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors and Director of Wayneflete School.

John J. Morrissey is a partner with the law firm of Quinn and Morris in Boston, Massachusetts. Since 1999, he has served as a member of the Board of Bar Overseers Hearing Committee for Plymouth and Norfolk Counties in Massachusetts, which investigates complaints of attorney misconduct and makes findings and recommendations for discipline to the Supreme Judicial Court. Since 2000, Mr. Morrissey has served as a member of the Medical Malpractice Tribunal for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which hears medical malpractice claims to determine if the evidence is sufficient for judicial inquiry without posting a statutory bond. Mr. Morrissey also serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, as a Regional Delegate of the Massachusetts Bar Association and as a member of the Executive Management Board of the Massachusetts Bar Association. John J. Morrissey is the son of Director William P. Morrissey, the Company s and the Bank s President.