---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001476045-25-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLDT"
cik: "0001476045"
company_name: "Chatham Lodging Trust"
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T15:29:11.079964+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trustee Robert Perlmutter to retire from Chatham Lodging board at annual meeting

## Summary
- Robert Perlmutter, independent trustee, notified board of his retirement at end of current term.
- He will not seek reelection at the 2025 annual meeting; decision not due to any disagreement.
- Effective date tied to the annual meeting later this year; no immediate departure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001476045-25-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLDT
- cik: 0001476045
- company_name: Chatham Lodging Trust
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476045/000147604525000018/0001476045-25-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476045/000147604525000018/cldt-20250317.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001476045-25-000018
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001476045-25-000018.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001476045-25-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert Perlmutter retired as independent trustee at Chatham Lodging Trust.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: independent trustee
  source text: On March 17, 2025, Robert Perlmutter, an independent trustee of the board of trustees of Chatham Lodging Trust (the “Company”), notified the board that he wished to retire from the board at the end of his current term and not seek reelection at the Company’s annual meeting later this year.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476045/000147604525000018/0001476045-25-000018-index.htm

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