Co-Founder and CEO, The CenterCap Group Age: 53 Independent Director since 2021 Experience Co-Founder and CEO, The CenterCap Group, a boutique investment bank providing strategic M&A advisory, capital-raising and consulting related services to private and public sector companies and fund managers across the real assets industry (2009 present); also serves as Chief Executive Officer of the firm s two wholly owned subsidiaries, CC Securities (2011 present) and CenterCap Advisors (2019 present) Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and Senior Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis Investors, where she also served on the Global Leadership Team, which oversaw execution of strategies and best practices (2007 2009) Served as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers, Wachovia Securities, and Morgan Stanley Ms. Smith is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and author of numerous industry articles for real estate focused publications Qualifications Investment and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Transactions, Business Strategy & Operations, Real Estate, and Marketing gained through her experience as a Co-Founder and CEO at The CenterCap Group where Ms. Smith heads the firm s Strategic Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions and Execution efforts, as well as her role as an investment banker at various firms; Ms. Smith has been involved in more than $100 billion of mergers, acquisitions and restructuring transactions and over $500 million of private capital raising assignments to support GP and LP positions for middle-market restructuring, acquisition and development projects across the retail, multifamily, office, hotel and industrial sectors Ms. Smith also brings expertise in Financial Expertise and Literacy, Legal, and Talent Development and Management. Education Bachelor of Economics, with honors, University of Sydney Bachelor of Law, with honors, University of Sydney Other Boards None Committees Nominating, Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment