{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001541401-26-000011","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"ESRT","cik":"0001541401","company_name":"Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.","filed_at":"2026-03-16T23:59:59+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-05-14T18:02:35.384135+00:00","generated_at":"2026-05-15T11:41:51.292849+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.25,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.25,"confidence":"high","headline":"Empire State Realty Trust appoints Jean Sutherland as Chief Accounting Officer effective March 16, 2026","bullets":["Jean Sutherland, 38, was appointed CAO and principal accounting officer, effective March 16, 2026.","Stephen V. Horn remains CFO; CAO duties transitioned from him to Sutherland.","Sutherland joined ESRT in June 2024 as VP of Financial Reporting and Accounting Policy.","Previously Global Head of Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting at WeWork; prior at Ernst & Young.","Sutherland is a CPA and holds a BMO from Western University (Ontario, 2011)."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-26-000011","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-26-000011.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-26-000011.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-26-000011.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140126000011/0001541401-26-000011-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140126000011/esrt-20260315.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-05-15T11:41:51.292849+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}