---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-003631"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRE"
cik: "0000924901"
company_name: "Veris Residential, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-01-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T18:48:33.712609+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veris Residential appoints Amanda Lombard CAO; CFO David Smetana to leave by year-end 2022

## Summary
- Amanda Lombard appointed Chief Accounting Officer effective Jan 18, 2022; will become CFO upon Smetana's departure.
- David Smetana to step down as CFO by Dec 31, 2022, upon expiration of his employment agreement.
- Giovanni DeBari terminated as CAO effective Jan 12, 2022; will assist in transition.
- Lombard brings over a decade of public REIT experience, previously CFO/CAO at Seritage and CAO at Gramercy Property Trust.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-003631
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRE
- cik: 0000924901
- company_name: Veris Residential, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-01-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465922003631/0001104659-22-003631-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465922003631/tm222732d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-003631.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Amanda Lombard was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Veris Residential, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 12, 2022, Veris Residential, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) had appointed Ms. Amanda Lombard as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465922003631/0001104659-22-003631-index.htm

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