---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-016690"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NSA"
cik: "0001618563"
company_name: "National Storage Affiliates Trust"
filed_at: "2022-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T03:10:48.185415+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NSA appoints David Cramer as President and COO; Tamara Fischer remains CEO

## Summary
- David Cramer, current EVP/COO, appointed President and COO effective July 1, 2022.
- Tamara Fischer resigns as President but continues as CEO.
- Cramer is brother-in-law of executive chairman Arlen Nordhagen; no other arrangements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-016690
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NSA
- cik: 0001618563
- company_name: National Storage Affiliates Trust
- filed_at: 2022-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618563/000162828022016690/0001628280-22-016690-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618563/000162828022016690/nsa-20220609.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-016690
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-016690.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-22-016690.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tamara D. Fischer resigned as President at National Storage Affiliates Trust.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: President
  source text: In connection with the Appointment, also effective July 1, 2022, Tamara D. Fischer, the Company's current chief executive officer and president, will resign from her position as president and will remain as the Company's chief executive officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618563/000162828022016690/0001628280-22-016690-index.htm
- Executive change
  David Cramer was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer at National Storage Affiliates Trust.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On June 9, 2022, National Storage Affiliates Trust (the "Company") announced that its board of trustees appointed David Cramer, 58, the Company's current executive vice president and chief operating officer to the position of president and chief operating officer (the " Appointment "), effective July 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618563/000162828022016690/0001628280-22-016690-index.htm

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