secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (ESRT)
CIK:        0001541401
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001541401-26-000011
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Empire State Realty Trust appoints Jean Sutherland as Chief Accounting Officer effective March 16, 2026
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- 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).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140126000011/0001541401-26-000011-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140126000011/esrt-20260315.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-26-000011

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