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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-112589"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OHI"
cik: "0000888491"
company_name: "OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS INC"
filed_at: "2026-10-01T12:20:19+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T14:16:41.435960+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Omega Healthcare appoints Matthew Gourmand CEO effective Oct 1, 2026, succeeding retiring C. Taylor Pickett

## Summary
- Gourmand, 51, Company President since Jan 1, 2025, becomes President and CEO on Oct 1, 2026, succeeding C. Taylor Pickett, who retires.
- Pickett's retirement is not the result of any disagreement with the Company on operations, policies or practices, per the filing.
- Board also appointed Gourmand as a director, filling the vacancy from Pickett's retirement; term runs to 2027 and the board stays at eight members.
- Gourmand was SVP of Corporate Strategy & Investor Relations from Jan 2021, SVP of Investor Relations from Oct 2017, and spent 10 years at Millennium Partners and Stevens Capital.
- No separate compensation for his director service beyond his existing employment agreement; no related-party transactions or family relationships disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-112589
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OHI
- cik: 0000888491
- company_name: OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS INC
- filed_at: 2026-10-01T12:20:19+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/888491/000110465926112589/0001104659-26-112589-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/888491/000110465926112589/tm2626496d1_8k.htm

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