---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001298946-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRH"
cik: "0001298946"
company_name: "DiamondRock Hospitality Co"
filed_at: "2025-01-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T00:56:10.402756+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DiamondRock Hospitality appoints Stephanie Lepori to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from eight to nine members; Lepori appointed effective Jan 15, 2025.
- Lepori is Chief Administrative and Accounting Officer at Caesars Entertainment.
- She also joins the Nominating, Corporate Governance, Audit and Compensation Committees.
- Nearly 30 years in hospitality/gaming; CPA; began career at Arthur Andersen.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001298946-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRH
- cik: 0001298946
- company_name: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
- filed_at: 2025-01-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298946/000129894625000004/0001298946-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298946/000129894625000004/drh-20250113.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001298946-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001298946-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001298946-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephanie Lepori was appointed as Director at DiamondRock Hospitality Co.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 13, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from eight to nine members and appointed Ms. Stephanie Lepori to the Board, effective January 15, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298946/000129894625000004/0001298946-25-000004-index.htm

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