---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-127139"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RHP"
cik: "0001040829"
company_name: "Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T10:18:11.444566+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ryman Hospitality Properties appoints Erin Mulligan Helgren to Board, effective Jan 1, 2024

## Summary
- Board size increased from 9 to 10 directors, effective January 1, 2024.
- Helgren serves as CEO of OfficeSpace Software and was previously CMO at Dell and SunPower.
- She will serve on the Audit Committee; Board found her independent under NYSE rules.
- No compensatory arrangements beyond standard non-employee director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-127139
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RHP
- cik: 0001040829
- company_name: Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040829/000110465923127139/0001104659-23-127139-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040829/000110465923127139/tm2333125d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-127139.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Erin Mulligan Helgren was appointed as Director at Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 19, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from nine (9) directors to ten (10) directors and appointed Erin Mulligan Helgren to fill the vacancy created by such increase, in each case effective as of January 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040829/000110465923127139/0001104659-23-127139-index.htm

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