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Issuer:     Service Properties Trust (SVC)
CIK:        0000945394
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-17T20:21:16+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-108582
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Service Properties Trust elects Jeanmarie Flaherty Cooney as independent trustee
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- 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.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465926108582/0001104659-26-108582-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465926108582/tm2625487d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-108582

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