MFA FINANCIAL INC (MFA)
Sector: Financials
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Financials
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for MFA
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MFA | Director | 69 | ["extensive risk management experience","substantial service on the boards and committees of other public and private companies in the financial services sector","experience with corporate governance","experience with finance","B.S. in International Business and Economics from New York University"] | ["audit committee"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Ms. Polsky has served as a member of the Board of Directors of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and HSBC Bank USA, N.A. since January 2023. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Pershing Square USA, Ltd. since June 2024, where she chairs the audit committee, and she has served as a trustee on the Board of Trustees of the AQR Funds, an open-end management investment company, since November 2025, where she also served as a member of the Advisory Board to the Board of Trustees from May 2025 to November 2025. Ms. Polsky also served as a member of the Board of Directors and member of the audit committee of Vertex Holdco, Inc., the privately held parent of VeriFone, a provider of technology and services for point-of-sale electronic payment transactions, from April 2021 to December 2024. She was also previously a member of the Board of Trustees of Guardian Life s Variable Products Trust, from 2016 to 2022, where she chaired the audit committee. Ms. Polsky also served as a member of Deutsche Bank AG s U.S. Board from 2016 to October 2021, where she chaired the risk committee. Ms. Polsky also served on the Board of Directors of Piper Jaffray from 2007 to 2016, where she chaired the audit committee and the compensation committee. She also recently served as a member of the Advisory Council of ConsenSys Software, Inc., a blockchain software technology company, from 2020 to 2022. She was previously a Senior Risk Advisor to AQR Capital Management LLC, an investment management firm, and she also previously served as a Senior Risk Advisor to Ultra Capital, a venture capital firm. Prior thereto, Ms. Polsky served as Chief Risk Officer at CIT, a financial holding company, from 2010 to 2016, and she was Chief Risk Officer of Morgan Stanley earlier in her career. Ms. Polsky began her career building derivative trading and hedge fund businesses at Citibank and Bankers Trust. Ms. Polsky holds a B.S. in International Business and Economics from New York University.