Board of Directors

Mr. Alburger has served as a member of our Board since May 2010. He has served on the board of trustees of Pennsylvania REIT (NYSE: PEI) since June 2016 and serves on the board of Exeter Property Group, a private real estate investment management firm. Mr. Alburger served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Liberty Property Trust (NYSE: LPT) from May 1995 until June 2016 and also served as an Executive Vice President of Liberty from 2000 to 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Alburger was employed by EBL&S Property Management, Inc. from 1982 to 1995, departing as an Executive Vice President. Prior to joining EBL&S in 1982, Mr. Alburger was a senior manager at Pricewaterhouse LLP. Mr. Alburger is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s University.

Ms. Barrett joined our Board in May 2019. She currently serves on the board of directors of Aaron’s, Inc. (NYSE: AAN), a leading omnichannel provider of lease-purchase solutions, and Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE: PDM), a real estate investment trust. In addition, from 2011 to 2016, she served on the board of directors of State Bank Financial Corporation, which merged into Cadence Bancorporation (NYSE:CADE). Prior to her retirement in December 2018, Ms. Barrett was employed by The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) for sixteen years, commencing in January 2003, serving in various roles of increasing responsibility, finally as Senior Vice President - Home Services. Prior to her employment by The Home Depot, Ms. Barrett was employed by Cousins Properties Incorporated for eleven years in various senior financial roles, including ultimately that of Senior Vice President - Chief Financial Officer. During that time, she was active in the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) as an Accounting Committee Co-Chairperson and member of the Best Financial Practices Council. She has been a licensed CPA in Georgia since 1988. Ms. Barrett is a graduate of The Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management with a concentration in Accounting.

Mr. Bass joined our board in November 2021. He currently serves as Chief Supply Chain and Global Properties Officer of Best Buy and brings nearly two decades of experience in global supply chain and operational roles with leading big-box retailers. In his role with Best Buy, Mr. Bass is responsible for global order management, distribution centers, domestic and international transportation, global compliance and trade, final-mile fulfillment, reverse logistics and real estate. Prior to joining Best Buy in 2013, Mr. Bass spent more than 12 years in a variety of supply chain positions with Target Corp., including Senior Supply Chain Leader. Previously, he served as a commercial airline pilot for 12 years for Sun Country Airlines and Midwest Airlines. Mr. Bass also served as a member of the Pier 1 Imports, Inc. Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020.

Mr. Chapelle was appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer and joined our board in November 2021. He most recently served as an executive of Tyson Foods, holding a variety of leadership roles including Chief Corporate Services Officer; General Manager of Emerging Proteins, Research and Development and Logistics; Chief Operating Officer of Prepared Foods; and Chief Integration Officer. Prior to joining Tyson Foods in 2017, he served as Chief Operating Officer at several leading consumer packaged goods companies, including AdvancePierre Foods, Vi-Jon and Solo Cup Company. Previously, Mr. Chappelle spent more than four years with Sara Lee Foods, including as Chief Supply Chain Officer and Chief Information Officer. He also served as Chief Information Officer of HJ Heinz from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Chappelle currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Flagstone Foods and as a member of the Boards of Apex International and Randall Foods. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of AGRO Merchants Group from 2018 to 2020.

Mr. Fernandez currently serves as the President of AFF Advisors, LLC, a private advisory firm. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Pinnacle Foods, Inc. (NYSE:PF) from 2011 to 2016, where he was responsible for management of the company’s end-to-end supply, while also overseeing Pinnacle’s food quality, safety and productivity programs. Mr. Fernandez was Senior Vice President Operational Excellence at Kraft Foods, Inc., following Kraft’s acquisition of Cadbury, plc in 2010, until he joined Pinnacle in 2011. Mr. Fernandez was at Cadbury from 1998 until 2010, serving in a series of senior management positions, including Chief Supply Chain Officer. His early career included roles in manufacturing, procurement, engineering and consulting with Proctor & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG), PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) and The Canaan Group. Mr. Fernandez currently serves on the Board of Directors of Utz Brands, Inc. (NYSE:UTZ) and Green Rabbit Holdings, Inc., a privately-held logistics fulfillment company for perishable, refrigerated and frozen foods, and on the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College. Previously he served on the Board of Directors of Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LPT), until it’s recent acquisition by Prologis, Inc. (NYSE:PLD) and Collier Creek (NYSE:CCH), a SPAC that combined with UTZ Quality Foods to form UTZ Brands, Inc., in August, 2020. He received his bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College.

Ms. Kohn joined our board in November 2021. She is Chief Merchandising Officer of Sally Beauty Holdings and has more than 25 years of merchandising, supply chain, logistics and operations expertise in the food and retail industries. Prior to joining Sally Beauty in 2019, Ms. Kohn served as Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer of the Family Dollar division of Dollar Tree and Chief Merchandising Officer of The Fresh Market. Previously, Ms. Kohn spent 13 years in a variety of leadership positions with Walmart, including Senior Vice President, Merchandising, Senior Vice President, Global Food Sourcing, Executive Vice President, Merchandise Services and President of Walmart US Realty. Prior to her time at Walmart, Ms. Kohn served as Senior Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing with Stop & Shop and spent eight years as Senior Vice President of Merchandising with Food Lion.

Mr. Neithercut joined our Board in May 2019. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) from January 2006 until his retirement in December 2018 and as President from May 2005 to September 2018. He was Executive Vice President - Corporate Strategy from January 2004 to May 2005, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from February 1995 to August 2004. Mr. Neithercut has served as a trustee of Equity Residential since 2006, is a former director of General Growth Properties, Inc., now a part of Brookfield Realty Partners, and a former member of the Advisory Board of Governors of National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Mr. Neithercut received NAREIT’s 2018 Industry Leadership Award, honoring a REIT executive who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the growth and betterment of the industry, and was recognized by Columbia Business School as the 2018 Distinguished Real Estate Partner. Mr. Neithercut received his bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University and a Master of Business Administration from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Patterson has served as a member of our Board since January 2018 and as Chairman of the Board since March 2019. He is currently President of MRP Holdings, LLC and has served in that role since leaving Merrill Lynch in January 2009 where he served as a real estate consultant. From October 2010 until March 2016, Mr. Patterson was also Chairman, and until January 2015 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, of Boomerang Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of automated parking systems. Until January 2009, Mr. Patterson was a Managing Director and the Head of Real Estate Global Principal Investments at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw real estate principal investing activities of the firm. Mr. Patterson joined Merrill Lynch in April 2005 as the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and in 2006 also became Co-Head of Global Commercial Real Estate at the firm, which encompassed real estate investment banking, principal investing and mortgage debt. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Patterson spent 16 years at Citigroup where he was the Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking from 1996 to 2005. He is an Advisory Director of Investcorp, Inc. (BSE: INVCORP) and a Senior Advisor to Rockefeller Capital Management. He served as a member of the board of directors for General Growth Properties, now a part of Brookfield Realty Partners, from 2011 to 2017, and is currently a member of the board of directors for UDR, Inc. (NYSE: UDR) since 2014, a member of the board of directors of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) since 2016 and a member of the board of directors of Paramount Group (NYSE: PGRE) since 2018. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the College of William and Mary and a Masters of Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is also a certified public accountant.

Mr. Power has served as a member of our Board since January 2018. “He is the Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) and has served in that role since December 2022. Prior to joining Digital Realty, Mr. Power was employed by Merrill Lynch from 2011 to April 2015, where he last served as Managing Director of Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging Investment Banking, and was responsible for relationships with over 40 public and private companies. Mr. Power was employed by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. from 2004 to 2011 where he last served as Vice President. During his career, Mr. Power has managed the execution of public and private capital raises in excess of $30 billion, including the then-largest REIT IPO, and more than $19 billion of merger and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Power is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) Best Financial Practices Council and Multinational U.S. REIT Council. Mr. Power received a Bachelor of Science in Analytical Finance from Wake Forest University.