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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-208243"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BSTT"
cik: "0001662972"
company_name: "Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:07:01.811986+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BREIT appoints Katie Keenan as CEO, Zaneta Koplewicz as Co-President effective Nov 10, 2025

## Summary
- Katie Keenan named CEO and director of BREIT and Global Head of Core+ Real Estate, succeeding Wesley LePatner.
- Zaneta Koplewicz appointed Co-President and director alongside existing Co-President A.J. Agarwal.
- Interim CEO Rob Harper steps down, returns to role as Head of Asset Management; serves as board observer.
- BREIT's Class I annualized net return 9.2% since inception (~8.5 years); portfolio ~90% in secular-growth sectors (data centers).
- Tim Johnson appointed CEO of BXMT; Austin Peña named President and director of BXMT.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-208243
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BSTT
- cik: 0001662972
- company_name: Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1662972/000119312525208243/0001193125-25-208243-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1662972/000119312525208243/d71225d8k.htm

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