---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-099227"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VTR"
cik: "0000740260"
company_name: "Ventas, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T11:29:52.473193+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ventas appoints Realty Income CEO Sumit Roy to Board; director Robert Reed to retire in 2023

## Summary
- Sumit Roy (President & CEO of Realty Income) appointed as independent director, effective Oct 1, 2022; will serve on Investment Committee.
- Robert Reed, a director since 2008, will not stand for re-election at the 2023 Annual Meeting; retirement not due to any disagreement.
- Board expands to 12 directors (11 independent, 50% diverse by gender or ethnicity); expected to revert to 11 after 2023 Annual Meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-099227
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VTR
- cik: 0000740260
- company_name: Ventas, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465922099227/0001104659-22-099227-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465922099227/tm2225640d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-099227
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-099227.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-099227.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert D. Reed departed as Director at Ventas, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 12, 2022, Robert D. Reed, a director of the Company, advised the Board that he will not stand for re-election as a director of the Company at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465922099227/0001104659-22-099227-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sumit Roy was appointed as Director at Ventas, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 12, 2022, Sumit Roy, President & Chief Executive Officer at Realty Income Corporation, was appointed as an independent director to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ventas, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465922099227/0001104659-22-099227-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.