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Mr. Moriarty is one of our Class I directors and currently serves as a member of the audit committee and as a member of the nominating and governance committee. Mr. Moriarty has been the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rockefeller Capital Management since October 2022 and a member of its Executive Committee since March 2018. From March 2018 to October 2022, Mr. Moriarty was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer of Rockefeller Capital Management. From February 2010 to February 2016, Mr. Moriarty served in various senior management positions with Morgan Stanley, including as the Head of Merchant Banking & Real Estate Investing, Alternative Investment Partners (AIP), and Managed Futures at Morgan Stanley, which managed $77 billion of assets under management in the aggregate across a variety of alternative strategies and products. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Investment Management at Morgan Stanley from 2010 to 2013. He was also a member of Morgan Stanley's Management Committee, Firm-wide Risk Committee, Asset/Liability Management Committee and Global Franchise Committee. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Moriarty worked for Merrill Lynch & Co. from 1987 through 2008, where he finished as a Senior Vice President and Co-Chief Risk Officer and was selected to join the senior transition leadership team for the merger of Merrill Lynch & Co. with Bank of America Corp. At Merrill, he held a variety of leadership roles during his tenure across investment banking, capital markets, and risk management. He initially joined Merrill Lynch & Co. as an investment banker in 1987. Mr. Moriarty is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of Elon University. He was formerly a trustee of Homeless Solutions, Inc., a non-profit, based in Morristown, NJ and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gill St. Bernard's School. He received his bachelor's degree from Hamilton College and MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Mr. Moriarty's significant experience in the banking, real estate and asset management industries provides the Board with valuable real estate, economic, and capital markets experience.