---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-022172"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SVC"
cik: "0000945394"
company_name: "Service Properties Trust"
filed_at: "2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T02:39:05.190407+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Service Properties Trust appoints Christopher Bilotto as President/CEO and Managing Trustee

## Summary
- Christopher J. Bilotto appointed President, CEO, and Managing Trustee, effective March 10, 2025.
- Bilotto succeeds John G. Murray as Managing Trustee and Todd W. Hargreaves as President/CIO, both resigned March 9, 2025.
- Resignations not due to any disagreement with the company, management, or Board.
- Bilotto is also CEO of Diversified Healthcare Trust and an executive VP at The RMR Group LLC; standard indemnification agreement to be entered.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-022172
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SVC
- cik: 0000945394
- company_name: Service Properties Trust
- filed_at: 2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465925022172/0001104659-25-022172-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465925022172/tm258690d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-022172
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-022172.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-022172.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John G. Murray resigned as Managing Trustee at Service Properties Trust.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Managing Trustee
  source text: Mr. Bilotto succeeds John G. Murray as a Managing Trustee, who resigned effective March 9, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465925022172/0001104659-25-022172-index.htm
- Executive change
  Todd W. Hargreaves resigned as President and Chief Investment Officer at Service Properties Trust.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: President and Chief Investment Officer
  source text: and succeeds Todd W. Hargreaves as President and Chief Investment Officer, who also resigned effective March 9, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465925022172/0001104659-25-022172-index.htm
- Executive change
  Christopher J. Bilotto was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Service Properties Trust.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 10, 2025, our Board of Trustees, or the Board, appointed Christopher J. Bilotto as a Managing Trustee and as our President and Chief Executive Officer, effective that day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465925022172/0001104659-25-022172-index.htm

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