Senior Housing Properties Trust announced the election of Richard W. Siedel, Jr. as its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer by SNH's Board of Trustees. Siedel has been Chief Accounting Officer of Five Star Quality Care Inc. since 2014 and previously was Controller of The RMR Group since 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Siedel held various accounting leadership positions, including Corporate Controller, at Sensata Technologies Holdings NV from 2010 to 2013 and as an auditor at Ernst & Young LLP from 2001 to 2010.

Siedel will replace Richard A. Doyle, Jr. as CFO and Treasurer of SNH effective as of January 1, 2016. At that time, Doyle will leave SNH to become CFO and Treasurer of Five Star.