---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001728951-25-000188"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EPRT"
cik: "0001728951"
company_name: "ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC."
filed_at: "2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:55:55.152349+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Essential Properties appoints Robert Salisbury as CFO effective Jan 1, 2026; Mark Patten resigns Dec 31, 2025

## Summary
- Robert Salisbury appointed EVP and CFO effective January 1, 2026; Mark Patten resigns as CFO effective December 31, 2025, to pursue new opportunity.
- Salisbury joined EPRT in 2023 as SVP leading capital markets and investor relations functions.
- Prior roles include SVP and Director of Research at Almanac Realty Investors (Neuberger Berman), portfolio co-manager at Citadel, and equity research at UBS, BofA, Citigroup.
- Patten's departure is not the result of any disagreement with management or auditors on accounting principles or internal controls.
- Salisbury's CFO compensation has not yet been determined; an indemnification agreement substantially consistent with other executive officers will be entered.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001728951-25-000188
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EPRT
- cik: 0001728951
- company_name: ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895125000188/0001728951-25-000188-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895125000188/eprt-20251216.htm

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