Richard D. Bronson

Richard D. Bronson, Lead Director

Richard D. Bronson has been a director of the Company since its inception in 2009. Since 2000, Mr. Bronson has been the Chairman of The Bronson Companies, LLC, a real estate development, investment and advisory company based in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Bronson has been involved in the development of several shopping centers and office buildings throughout the United States. Mr. Bronson serves as a director of both Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (“SREIT”), a public non-listed real estate investment trust (“REIT”) focused on acquiring stabilized, income-oriented commercial real estate and debt secured by commercial real estate in both the U.S. and Europe, in which an affiliate of the Company is a stockholder, and Invitation Homes Inc., a publicly traded REIT focused on the single-family residential business based in Dallas, Texas, in which an affiliate of the Company is a stockholder (“Invitation Homes”). Mr. Bronson previously was the President of New City Development, an affiliate of Mirage Resorts, where he oversaw the New City Development’s new business initiatives and activities outside of Nevada. For over 30 years, Mr. Bronson has been involved in the development of myriad commercial properties throughout the United States. Mr. Bronson previously served as a director of Mirage Resorts and as a director of TRI Pointe Group, Inc., a homebuilding and design company based in Irvine, California, in which an affiliate of the Company was a stockholder and which, after a 2015 reorganization, became the successor issuer to TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. (“TRI Pointe Group”). Mr. Bronson is on the Advisory Board of the Neurosurgery Division at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and he and his wife, Edie Baskin Bronson, were the recipients of the department’s 2018 “Visionary Award”. Mr. Bronson has also served as a Trustee and Vice President of the International Council of Shopping Centers, an association representing more than 70,000 industry professionals in 100 countries. Mr. Bronson is a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut, and the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.