Catherine D. Rice

Ms. Rice is a seasoned leader with an extensive background in the real estate and financial industries and on public company boards. Her more than thirty-five years of experience includes key management and CFO roles with public and private real estate companies and deep expertise in the public and private capital markets where she has been involved in over $50 billion of capital-raising and financial advisory transactions. Ms. Rice served as the Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer from January 2013 to February 2016 of W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC). Before joining W.P. Carey in 2013, Ms. Rice was a partner at Parmenter Realty Partners from January 2010 until December 2012 and a Senior Advisor and Board Member for CTS Cement Manufacturing Co. from April 2009 to January 2019. Ms. Rice spent the first 16 years of her career as a professional in the real estate investment banking groups of Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Banc of America Securities. Ms. Rice serves on the boards of BrightSpire Capital (NYSE: BRSP), a REIT, since 2018, and RMG Acquisition Corp III (NASQ: RMGCU) since 2021. She served as an independent director of Store Capital (NYSE: STOR), a net-lease REIT, from 2017 until its privatization in early 2023.