---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000912593-23-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SUI"
cik: "0000912593"
company_name: "SUN COMMUNITIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-01-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T10:16:57.233606+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sun Communities expands board to 9, appoints Jeff T. Blau as director

## Summary
- Board size increased from 8 to 9; Jeff T. Blau appointed effective January 25, 2023.
- Blau (age 54) is CEO and partner of The Related Companies, L.P.
- He will serve until the 2024 annual meeting under standard non-employee director compensation.
- Company entered into a director indemnification agreement with Blau.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000912593-23-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SUI
- cik: 0000912593
- company_name: SUN COMMUNITIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-01-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912593/000091259323000016/0000912593-23-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912593/000091259323000016/sui-20230125.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912593-23-000016
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912593-23-000016.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000912593-23-000016.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeff T. Blau was appointed as director at SUN COMMUNITIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 25, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sun Communities, Inc. (the “Company”), increased the size of the Board from eight to nine directors and effective immediately appointed Mr. Jeff T. Blau to serve as a director of the Company until the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders to be held in 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912593/000091259323000016/0000912593-23-000016-index.htm

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