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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-116429"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KRG"
cik: "0001286043"
company_name: "KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST"
filed_at: "2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T16:25:41.525035+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dave Buell resigns as CAO; Joseph Schmid appointed interim CAO at Kite Realty Group

## Summary
- Dave Buell resigned as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer, effective November 21, 2025.
- Joseph Schmid, 37, assumed role of interim principal accounting officer and interim CAO.
- Schmid joined Kite in October 2025 from Deloitte, where he was Audit & Assurance Senior Manager.
- Schmid holds a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Michigan State University and is a CPA.
- Schmid has over 13 years of accounting and finance experience, primarily in real estate.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-116429
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KRG
- cik: 0001286043
- company_name: KITE REALTY GROUP TRUST
- filed_at: 2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286043/000110465925116429/0001104659-25-116429-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286043/000110465925116429/tm2532024d1_8k.htm

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