Austin Nowlin has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2021. He serves as a member of the Advisor’s Investment Committee and has served as a Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets for the Americas at Starwood Capital Group. In this role, he is responsible for all debt capital market activities for the Firm’s investments in the Americas, including, the origination, structuring, and execution of asset-level and fund/corporate-level financing activity. Since joining Starwood Capital in 2011, Mr. Nowlin has completed financings across all asset and product types, including revolving credit facilities, domestic and foreign balance sheet loans, construction financing, fixed and floating rate CMBS, preferred and mezzanine financing. He is a member of the Investment Committees at Starwood Capital and Starwood Property Trust. Prior to joining Starwood Capital, Mr. Nowlin worked at Wells Fargo and its predecessor, Wachovia Securities, in leveraged finance. He began his career at Raymond James, where he focused on making equity investments in multifamily assets. Mr. Nowlin received a B.A. in economics from Florida State University. Mr. Nowlin’s experience in the debt capital markets brings significant value to our board of directors in executing our investment strategy. Richard D. Bronson has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2017. Mr. Bronson has served as the Chairman of The Bronson Companies, LLC, a real estate development, investment and advisory company based in Beverly Hills, California since 2000. Mr. Bronson has been involved in the development of commercial properties throughout the United States for more than thirty years. Mr. Bronson has served as a director of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD) since 2009 and as a director of Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH). Mr. Bronson previously served as a director of Mirage Resorts, Inc. and as a director of Tri Pointe Homes, Inc. (NYSE: TPH). Mr. Bronson served as President of New City Development, an affiliate of Mirage Resorts, Inc., where he oversaw many of the company’s new business initiatives and activities outside Nevada. Mr. Bronson has also served as a Trustee and Vice President of the International Council of Shopping Centers, an association representing 70,000 industry professionals in more than 100 countries. Mr. Bronson is a past Trustee of The Forman School and is a past Chairman of the Board of the Archer School for Girls. Mr. Bronson serves on the Advisory Board for the Neurosurgery Division at UCLA Medical Center. Mr. Bronson’s experience and knowledge in the real estate industry provides our board of directors with valuable insight into potential investments and the current state of the real estate markets. David B. Henry has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2018. Mr. Henry served as Chief Executive Officer of Kimco Realty Corporation (NYSE: KIM) (“Kimco”) from December 2009 to January 2016, as Vice Chairman of Kimco from May 2001 to January 2016 and in other capacities at Kimco. Before joining Kimco in April 2001, Mr. Henry served in various capacities at GE Capital Real Estate (“GE Capital”) since 1978, including as GE Capital’s Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer from 1998 to 2001. During his tenure at GE Capital, Mr. Henry was responsible for pension advisory activities and investment policies and strategies in the United States and international markets. Mr. Henry also served as Chairman of GE Capital’s Investment Committee and as a member of its Credit Committee. Before joining GE Capital, Mr. Henry served as Vice President for Republic Mortgage Investors from 1973 to 1978. Mr. Henry serves on the Board of Directors of Tanger Outlet Centers (NYSE: SKT), a publicly traded shopping center REIT, since January 2016; and Healthcare Realty (NYSE: HR). Mr. Henry previously served on the boards of Healthpeak Properties, Inc. (NYSE: PEAK) from January 2004 until retirement in April 2024; Fairfield County Bank, a private Connecticut mutual savings bank, from July 2010 until retirement in December 2024; VEREIT, Inc. (NYSE: VER), a publicly traded net lease REIT from September 2015 until its acquisition by Realty Income Corporation (NYSE: O) in November 2021, and Columbia Property Trust (NYSE: CXP), a REIT, from January 2016 until its acquisition by affiliates of PIMCO in December 2021. Mr. Henry is a past trustee and served as 2011-2012 Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers, and was a former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of NAREIT. Mr. Henry serves on the real estate advisory boards of New York University, Baruch College, Bucknell University, ALTO Real Estate Funds, DLA, LLC, Orangewood Partners and Pine Tree LLC, SERVEPRO Global DRT, and is a past member of the Columbia University Real Estate Forum. Mr. Henry is also the co-founder of Peaceable Street Capital, an equity lender for income producing commercial real estate properties. Mr. Henry received a B.S. in Business Administration from Bucknell University and an M.B.A. from the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Mr. Henry’s extensive involvement with REITs which target a broad spectrum of assets helps provide our board of directors with an understanding of the market in which it competes for capital and investments. Mr. Henry is a financial expert. Robin Josephs has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2017. Ms. Josephs also serves as a director, chair of the compensation committee and a member of the audit committee of MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE: MFA), which is primarily engaged in investing in residential mortgage-backed securities, as well as a director of Safehold, Inc. (NYSE: SAFE), which had its initial public offering in June 2017 and invests in ground leases. Ms. Josephs previously served on the board of directors, and as lead director, of iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR), a real estate investment and development firm, until its acquisition by Safehold, Inc. in March 2023, served as a director, member of the nominating and corporate governance committee and chair of the compensation committee of QuinStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ: QNST), a vertical marketing and online media company, and served on the board of directors of SoftBank SPAC (NASDAQ: SVFB),a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with SoftBank Investment Advisers that was formed to enable an initial public offering-ready technology company to list publicly. From 2005 to 2007, Ms. Josephs served as a managing director of Starwood Capital. Previously, Ms. Josephs was a senior executive with Goldman Sachs & Co. in various capacities. Ms. Josephs is a trustee of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation.
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