BOARD OF TRUSTEES Hasu P. Shah Chairman Hersha Hospitality Trust Jay H. Shah Chief Executive Officer Hersha Hospitality Trust Thomas S. Capello Founder & Principal First Capital Equities Eduardo S. Elsztain Chairman IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones S.A. Thomas J. Hutchison III Former CEO CNL Hotels & Resorts CNL Retirement Properties Inc.	Donald J. Landry Former CEO and President Sunburst Hospitality, Inc. Michael A. Leven President and COO Las Vegas Sands Corp John Sabin Executive Vice President, Phoenix Health Systems, Inc. Kiran P. Patel Chief Investment Officer Hersha Group
	MANAGEMENT TEAM Jay H. Shah Chief Executive Officer Hersha Hospitality Trust Neil H. Shah President and Chief Operating Officer Hersha Hospitality Trust Ashish R. Parikh Chief Financial Officer Hersha Hospitality Trust Michael R. Gillespie Chief Accounting Officer Hersha Hospitality Trust	David L. Desfor Treasurer and Corporate Secretary Hersha Hospitality Trust Robert C. Hazard III Vice President of Acquisitions and Development Hersha Hospitality Trust William J. Walsh Vice President of Asset Management Hersha Hospitality Trust

Communications with the Board of Trustees. Shareholders and other interested parties who wish to communicate with the Board of Trustees or any of its Committees, may do so by writing to the Lead Trustee, Board of Trustees of Hersha Hospitality Trust, c/o Corporate Secretary, 44 Hersha Drive, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17102. The Corporate Secretary will review all communications received. All communications that relate to matters that are within the scope of the responsibilities of the Board of Trustees and its Committees are to be forwarded to the Lead Trustee. Communications that relate to matters that are within the scope of responsibility of one of the Board Committees are also to be forwarded to the Chairman of the appropriate Committee. Solicitations, junk mail and obviously frivolous or inappropriate communications are not to be forwarded, but will be made available to any non-management trustee who wishes to review them.