John Boucher

South Weymouth-based South Shore Bank President and CEO John C. Boucher will retire July 1, 2015, after nearly 42 years with the bank. He will be succeeded by James M. Dunphy.

Boucher has served as president and CEO since January 2007. He joined South Weymouth Savings Bank in 1973, which was merged with Weymouth Savings Bank in 1997 to create South Shore Savings Bank. The bank changed its named to South Shore Bank in 2013. Boucher served as vice president of administration and as executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO), prior to his promotion to president and COO in 2000 and to president and CEO in 2007.

Boucher graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and completed post-graduate programs at the Massachusetts School of Financial Studies, the Graduate School of Banking at Fairfield University and the Executive Development Program at Fairfield University. He is a member of the boards of directors of South Shore Hospital, the Massachusetts Bankers Association, Cardinal Cushing Centers and Infinex Financial Group Inc.

Dunphy joined South Shore Bank as executive vice president in January of this year. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Hampshire First Bank from 2006 to 2012. A Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant, Dunphy began his career in 1987 as a tax preparer at Kennedy and Lehan CPAs in Quincy and became a manager at Grant Thornton LLP in 1989. In 1997, he joined Granite Bank as administrative vice president and controller, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2000.