---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001332349-25-000084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKD"
cik: "0001332349"
company_name: "Brookdale Senior Living Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T05:44:59.740707+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brookdale Senior Living EVP Finance and Treasurer George T. Hicks to retire on May 21, 2025

## Summary
- George T. Hicks, Executive Vice President – Finance and Treasurer, notified Brookdale of his retirement after 40 years with the company.
- Retirement effective May 21, 2025; compensation committee waived six-month notice requirement for 2024 and 2025 LTI awards.
- Waived awards will continue to vest according to their original terms post-retirement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001332349-25-000084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKD
- cik: 0001332349
- company_name: Brookdale Senior Living Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000084/0001332349-25-000084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000084/bkd-20250421.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001332349-25-000084.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  George T. Hicks departed as Executive Vice President – Finance and Treasurer at Brookdale Senior Living Inc..
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Executive Vice President – Finance and Treasurer
  source text: On April 21, 2025, George T. Hicks, Executive Vice President – Finance and Treasurer of Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that, after 40 years with the Company and its predecessors, he would be retiring on May 21, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1332349/000133234925000084/0001332349-25-000084-index.htm

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