Tammy K. Jones is Chair of Veris Residential s Board of Directors and serves as a member of the Audit Committee, the Nominating, Environmental, Social and Governance Committee and the Strategic Review Committee. She was appointed to the Board in 2020 and served as Lead Independent Director prior to being named Chair in March 2021. Ms. Jones has over 25 years of capital markets and commercial real estate experience including as CEO of a commercial real estate investment manager and as a director of multiple public REITs as well as deep expertise investing and lending across all real estate property types with a focus on multifamily. Ms. Jones is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Basis Investment Group ( Basis ), a multi-strategy commercial real estate private equity investment manager. Under her leadership, Basis multifamily portfolio of debt and equity grew to over 35,000 units across the United States. Prior to founding Basis, Ms. Jones invested in and loaned on CRE and multifamily assets on behalf of large pension funds and institutional investors including CWCapital ( CW ) from 2004 to 2009. Previously, she was head of CW s fixed and floating rate Capital Markets Lending Division, and earlier worked at GMACCM, a large commercial real estate lender owned by GM, as Senior Vice President of its subsidiary GMAC (now Berkadia). Earlier, Ms. Jones held various positions at Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, where she served on both the equity and asset management side of the business. Ms. Jones is currently an Independent Director of Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) where she chairs the Nominating, Environmental, Social and Governance Committee and serves on the Audit Committee, Finance Committee and the CEO Search Committee. She is the Chair Emeritus of the Real Estate Executive Council, a trade organization dedicated to creating a pipeline of diversity in commercial real estate. Ms. Jones formerly served as member of the board of directors of Monogram Residential Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MORE), which during her board tenure, was successfully taken private by an affiliate of Greystar Growth, yielding a premium of 22% over the company s public share price. Ms. Jones was named one of Crain s New York Business ( Crain s ) Notable Leaders in Finance for 2024, one of Real Estate Forum s Best Bosses in 2023, one of Savoy s Most Influential Black Corporate Directors in 2021, and one of Crain s Notable Black Leaders and Executives of 2021. She received the 2020 Cornell Baker Industry Leader Award, received the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) 2019 Finance Catalyst Award, and was recognized as one of The Network Journal s 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business in 2017. Ms. Jones received a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA with a concentration in Real Estate Finance from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.