Healthcare Realty Appoints Healthpeak's Peter Scott As President And CEO, Effective April 15

(RTTNews) - Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. (HR) announced Monday the appointment of Peter Scott as the President and Chief Executive Officer with effect from April 15. Scott is expected to be added to the Board following the company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.

Scott has been Chief Financial Officer of Healthpeak Properties, Inc. (DOC) since February 2017.

Meanwhile, Healthpeak Properties in its statement announced that Scott has resigned as its CEO to join Healthcare Realty Trust, and that it expects to name an internal successor in the coming weeks. Before joining Healthpeak, he was a Managing Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Barclays.

Healthcare Realty Trust noted that Connie Moore, who has served as Interim President and CEO of the Company since November 2024, will transition out of that role and continue to serve on the Board.

Moore was appointed as Interim President and CEO after then President and CEO Todd Meredith resigned with immediate effect.

Scott said, "The Company has a premier outpatient medical real estate platform with superior scale, growth and demographics, leading leasing performance, and favorable secular trends."

In pre-market activity on the NYSE, Healthpeak shares were gaining around 4.7 percent to trade at $19.30.