---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-21-052348"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHLR"
cik: "0001527541"
company_name: "Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-10-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T21:26:55.491730+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wheeler REIT appoints M. Andrew Franklin as permanent CEO and President

## Summary
- Effective Oct 12, 2021, M. Andrew Franklin named CEO and President; previously interim CEO since July 2021.
- Franklin has been with Wheeler since 2014; most recently COO (Feb 2018), SVP Operations (Jan 2017), SVP Asset Mgmt (Oct 2015).
- Base salary increased to $400,000; all other terms of his existing employment agreement continue unchanged.
- No family relationships or reportable transactions between Franklin and the Company's board or executive officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-21-052348
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHLR
- cik: 0001527541
- company_name: Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-10-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000121390021052348/0001213900-21-052348-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000121390021052348/ea148570-8k_wheeler.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-052348
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-052348.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  M. Andrew Franklin was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and President at Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and President
  source text: Effective October 12, 2021, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed M. Andrew Franklin to the position of Chief Executive Officer and President.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000121390021052348/0001213900-21-052348-index.htm

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