---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-108582"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SVC"
cik: "0000945394"
company_name: "Service Properties Trust"
filed_at: "2026-09-17T20:21:16+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-09-17T20:22:37.383584+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Service Properties Trust elects Jeanmarie Flaherty Cooney as independent trustee

## Summary
- Jeanmarie Flaherty Cooney elected independent trustee with term expiring at 2027 annual meeting.
- Appointed to Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance committees.
- Previously EVP and CFO of Wyndham Hotel Group (2009-2018); worked on 2018 spin-out.
- Current CFO of New York Road Runners since 2020; former audit chair at Playa Hotels.
- No related-party transactions; standard indemnification agreement entered into.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-108582
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SVC
- cik: 0000945394
- company_name: Service Properties Trust
- filed_at: 2026-09-17T20:21:16+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465926108582/0001104659-26-108582-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465926108582/tm2625487d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-108582
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-108582.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-108582.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeanmarie Flaherty Cooney was elected as Independent Trustee at Service Properties Trust.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Independent Trustee
  source text: On September 15, 2026, pursuant to the recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee, the Company’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) elected Jeanmarie Flaherty Cooney as an Independent Trustee with a term to expire at the Company's 2027 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465926108582/0001104659-26-108582-index.htm

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