---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001476204-24-000079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PECO"
cik: "0001476204"
company_name: "Phillips Edison & Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T23:58:38.187727+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Phillips Edison appoints former President Devin Murphy to Board, expanding to 10 members

## Summary
- Board size increased from 9 to 10; Murphy appointed effective July 2, 2024.
- Murphy served as President from August 2019 to December 2023 and as CFO from June 2013 to August 2019.
- He retires from the company on July 1, 2024, and will not be an independent director.
- Murphy brings 27 years' investment banking experience at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank; over 500 transactions totaling $400B.
- He also chairs Apartment Income REIT (AIRC) and serves on CoreCivic (CXW) board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001476204-24-000079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PECO
- cik: 0001476204
- company_name: Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476204/000147620424000079/0001476204-24-000079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476204/000147620424000079/cik0001476204-20240625.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001476204-24-000079.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Devin Murphy was appointed as Director at Phillips Edison & Company, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Devin Murphy to the Board, effective July 2, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476204/000147620424000079/0001476204-24-000079-index.htm

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