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Issuer:     ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC. (EPRT)
CIK:        0001728951
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001728951-25-000188
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895125000188/0001728951-25-000188-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895125000188/eprt-20251216.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001728951-25-000188

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