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Issuer:     ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC (AHT)
CIK:        0001232582
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001232582-24-000072
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ashford Hospitality Trust Annual Meeting: Two Directors Fail to Win Majority, Retained by Board
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- At May 14 annual meeting, 54.68% of eligible shares voted; only ~7% of outstanding shares voted on Blackwells proxy card.
- Directors Monty Bennett and Kamal Jafarnia failed to receive majority votes (Bennett: 5.3M for, 8.1M against; Jafarnia: 5.3M for, 8.1M against).
- Board did not accept their tendered resignations, citing Bennett's leadership and Jafarnia's regulatory and real estate expertise.
- Stockholders approved advisory executive compensation and ratified BDO USA as auditor for fiscal 2024.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258224000072/0001232582-24-000072-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258224000072/aht-20240514.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001232582-24-000072

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