---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-185403"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001060224"
company_name: "LIFE STORAGE LP"
filed_at: "2023-07-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T09:46:39.547055+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Life Storage CFO Alexander Gress dies; COO David Dodman assumes CFO role

## Summary
- CFO Alexander Gress died unexpectedly on July 9, 2023, at age 50.
- COO David Dodman appointed CFO effective July 11, 2023, retaining COO duties.
- Gress had been CFO since 2021 and was key in pending combination with Extra Space Storage.
- Family established Alex Gress Scholarship Fund; donations to Canisius High School, Buffalo.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-185403
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001060224
- company_name: LIFE STORAGE LP
- filed_at: 2023-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060224/000119312523185403/0001193125-23-185403-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944314/000119312523185403/d519010d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-185403
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-185403.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-185403.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alexander Gress departed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at LIFE STORAGE LP.
  - Action: passed away
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
  source text: Life Storage, Inc. (the “Company”) is saddened to report that Alexander Gress, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company, passed away suddenly on July 9, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060224/000119312523185403/0001193125-23-185403-index.htm
- Executive change
  David Dodman was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at LIFE STORAGE LP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
  source text: Effective July 11, 2023, David Dodman, the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060224/000119312523185403/0001193125-23-185403-index.htm

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