Officers & Directors

Mr. Fick has served as a director of the Company since November 2010. Mr. Fick is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School where he teaches graduate-level Real Estate Finance, Capital Markets, and REIT Structuring and Analysis. He is President of Nandua Oyster Company, an aquaculture business he founded in 2007. Mr. Fick served as Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus & Company, a successor to Legg Mason Wood Walker. In that position he headed Real Estate Research and was an analyst covering real estate investment trusts from 1997 to 2010. During this period he was also a member of the Legg Mason Real Estate Capital Investment Committee. Mr. Fick also served as Equity Vice President, Finance with Alex Brown Kleinwort Benson and LaSalle Partners from 1993 to 1995, and as Chief Financial Officer at Mills Corporation and Western Development Corporation from 1991 to 1994. Prior to that, he was a practicing CPA and consultant with a national accounting firm, specializing in the real estate industry. He is also a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“Nareit”), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and is a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant. He is also a member of the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Real Estate Advisory Board and is an active investor in private real estate funds and partnerships.

Ms. Holden has served as a director of the company since February 2019. Ms. Holden served as a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company from April 2007 to December 2020, leading strategy, marketing and board effectiveness initiatives for global consumer goods, healthcare, and financial services clients. Prior to that, Ms. Holden spent 25 years in marketing and line positions in consumer goods. Ms. Holden served as President, Global Marketing and Category Development of Kraft Foods Inc. from January 2004 to June 2005, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Kraft Foods, Inc. 2001-2003, Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods North America from May 2000 to December 2003. Ms. Holden currently serves as a Director of Kenvue,  Dentsply Sirona and Western Union. She has served on ten public boards over the last 25 years, including Diageo Plc (2009 - 2018), Time, Inc. (2014 - 2018), and Catamaran Corporation (2012 - 2015). Ms. Holden serves on the Food Chain Advisory Board and several portfolio company boards for Paine Schwartz Partners, a private equity firm focused on sustainable agriculture and food. Ms. Holden was selected as a 2015 NACD Directorship 100 honoree and was inducted into the Chicago Business Hall of Fame in 2016. Ms. Holden graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University where she is Trustee Emeritus having served on the Board of Trustees (2011-2023) and the Executive Committee (2015-2023).  She received a Masters of Management in Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and serves on the Global Advisory Board (2000 - present).