Stanley Perla

Stanley R. Perla has served as an Independent Director of the Company since September 2023. Mr. Perla served as a Director of RTL until we acquired the entity in September 2023. Mr. Perla has served as an Independent Director of GTJ REIT, Inc. since January 2013 and currently chairs the Audit Committee. Mr. Perla previously served as an Independent Director of Hospitality Investors Trust, Inc. (formerly known as American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust, Inc.) from January 2014 to June 2021, as a member of the Board of Directors and the Chair of the Audit Committee of Madison Harbor Balanced Strategies, Inc. from January 2004 until its liquidation in 2017, as a Trustee of AREIF from May 2012 until its liquidation in August 2016 and as an Independent Director of Global II from August 2014 until December 2016. Mr. Perla, a licensed Certified Public Accountant, was with the firm of Ernst & Young LLP (“Ernst & Young”) for 35 years from September 1967 to June 2003, the last 25 of which he was a Partner. Mr. Perla served as Ernst & Young’s National Director of Real Estate Accounting as well as on Ernst & Young’s National Accounting and Auditing Committee. From July 2003 to May 2008, he was the Director of Internal Audit for Vornado Realty Trust, and from June 2008 to May 2011, he was the Managing Partner of Cornerstone Accounting Group, a public accounting firm specializing in the real estate industry, and a Consultant to the same firm from June 2011 to March 2012. From May 2012 until December 2015, Mr. Perla provided consulting services to Friedman LLP, a public accounting firm. His area of expertise for the past 40 years has been real estate and he was also responsible for auditing public and private companies. He is an active member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”) and the National Association of Real Estate Companies. In addition, Mr. Perla has been a frequent speaker on real estate accounting issues at numerous real estate conferences. Mr. Perla earned a Master of Business Administration in Taxation and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Baruch College.