---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-078408"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARE"
cik: "0001035443"
company_name: "ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC."
filed_at: "2022-07-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T17:59:21.695749+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Co-CEO Stephen A. Richardson to retire from Alexandria Real Estate Equities on July 31, 2022

## Summary
- Stephen A. Richardson, Co-CEO, resigns effective July 31, 2022 for family and personal reasons.
- He will transition to a strategic consultant role for internal growth after resignation.
- Richardson served as Co-CEO since April 2018 and with the company since 2000.
- No replacement named; duties to be allocated to other executive management team members.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-078408
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARE
- cik: 0001035443
- company_name: ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-07-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465922078408/0001104659-22-078408-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465922078408/tm2220691d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-078408.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen A. Richardson resigned as Co-Chief Executive Officer at ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Co-Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On July 1, 2022, Stephen A. Richardson, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (the “Company”), tendered his resignation from all of his positions with the Company and its subsidiaries, effective July 31, 2022, and notified the Company of his intent to retire from full-time employment and his professional career for family and personal reasons.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465922078408/0001104659-22-078408-index.htm

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