Healthcare Trust Adjourns May 6 Annual Meeting to May 10
May 7, 2019 | James Sprow | Blue Vault
Healthcare Trust, Inc. (“HTI”), a nontraded REIT with a $2.6 billion healthcare real estate portfolio, adjourned its May 6, 2019, annual meeting of stockholders to May 10 due to lack of participation to allow for solicitation of additional votes to establish a quorum.
The 2019 proxy includes only the election of Edward G. Rendell and Elizabeth K. Tuppeny as the Class II directors to serve until the 2022 Annual Meeting and the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as HTI’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2019.
Edward G. Rendell Background
Gov. Edward G. Rendell has served as an independent director of the Company since December 2015 and is a Class II director. Gov. Rendell has also served as an independent director of Global Net Lease, Inc. (“GNL”) since March 2012 and as an independent director of American Finance Trust, Inc. (“AFIN”) since February 2017. Gov. Rendell has served as an independent director of Business Development Corporation of America (“BDCA”), an entity which was previously advised by an affiliate of AR Global, since January 2011. In November 2016, BDCA’s external advisor was acquired by Benefit Street Partners, L.L.C. Gov. Rendell previously served as an independent director of American Realty Capital — Retail Centers of America, Inc. (“RCA”) from October 2012 until the close of RCA’s merger with AFIN in February 2017, and also previously served as an independent director of RCA from February 2011 until March 2012. He previously served as an independent director of Business Development Corporation of America II (“BDCA II”) from August 2014 until its liquidation and dissolution in September 2016. Gov. Rendell served as an independent director of American Realty Capital Trust III, Inc. (“ARCT III”) from March 2012 until the close of ARCT III’s merger with VEREIT, Inc. (“VEREIT”) in February 2013. Gov. Rendell served as an independent director of VEREIT from February 2013 until April 2015. Gov. Rendell served as the 45th Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from January 2003 through January 2011. Gov. Rendell also served as the Mayor of Philadelphia from January 1992 through January 2000.
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Elizabeth K. Tuppeny Background
Elizabeth K. Tuppeny has served as an independent director of the Company since January 2013 and is a Class II director. Ms. Tuppeny has also served as an independent director of New York City REIT, Inc. (formerly known as American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc., “NYCR”) since March 2014, including as lead independent director of NYCR since December 2014. Ms. Tuppeny has served as an independent director of Benefit Street Partners Realty Trust, Inc. since January 2013. Ms. Tuppeny also served as an independent director of American Realty Capital Trust IV, Inc. (“ARCT IV”) from May 2012 until the close of ARCT IV’s merger with VEREIT in January 2014, after which point Ms. Tuppeny was no longer associated with ARCT IV as an independent director nor affiliated with ARCT IV in any manner.
Source: SEC
