---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-025921"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RLJ"
cik: "0001511337"
company_name: "RLJ Lodging Trust"
filed_at: "2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T10:06:56.736818+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RLJ Lodging Trust CFO Sean Mahoney to retire in May 2025; succession underway

## Summary
- Sean Mahoney, EVP and CFO, to retire at end of his employment agreement in May 2025 after 7 years.
- Mahoney played key role in portfolio transformation and strengthening the balance sheet.
- He will continue as CFO until departure and remain available as an advisor post-retirement.
- Company has initiated a succession process for the CFO role.
- Retirement is voluntary; no disagreement with the company was cited.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-025921
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RLJ
- cik: 0001511337
- company_name: RLJ Lodging Trust
- filed_at: 2025-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511337/000110465925025921/0001104659-25-025921-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511337/000110465925025921/tm259825d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-025921
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-025921.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-025921.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sean Mahoney departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at RLJ Lodging Trust.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On March 14, 2025, Sean Mahoney, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of RLJ Lodging Trust (the “Company”), provided notice to the Board of Trustees of the Company of his intention to retire, effective at the end of the term of his employment agreement in May 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511337/000110465925025921/0001104659-25-025921-index.htm

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