Company: NREF
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-010694
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Company: NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. He has been a licensed attorney and member of the State Bar of Texas since 2001.

David Willmorehas served as our VP of Finance since February 2020. Mr. Willmore has served as the Chief Accounting Officer for our Sponsor since 2021 and as VP of Finance at NXRT since February 2020. He has also served as Senior Vice President of Accounting and Finance of NXHT since June 2022. He was previously Senior Manager at NXRT from April 2019 to February 2020 and a Senior Manager at a former NexPoint affiliate from February 2017 to March 2019. NXRT and NXHT may be affiliates of the Company. With over ten years of accounting, auditing, and financial reporting experience, his primary responsibilities are to implement the financial and operational strategies of our Sponsor’s public and private REITs and registered investment funds as well as ensure timely and accurate accounting and reporting. Before joining in October 2011, Mr. Willmore began his career at Deloitte & Touche LLP as an auditor in the Audit and Enterprise Risk Services Group.

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION</div>

Overview of Executive Compensation Program

We are externally managed by our Manager through the Management Agreement. Our Manager conducts substantially all of our operations and provides asset management services for our real estate investments. Because our Management Agreement provides that our Manager is responsible for managing our affairs, our named executive officers, who are employees of our Manager or were employees of our Manager during fiscal year 2024, have not received, nor do we expect they will in the future receive, any cash compensation from us for their services as our named executive officers. Similarly, we do not provide our named executive officers with pension benefits, perquisites or other personal benefits. Instead, we pay our Manager the fees described below under “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions-Our Management Agreement.” For the year ended December 31, 2024, we paid approximately $3.9 million in fees to our Manager. Our compensation committee does not make determinations with respect to compensation paid by our Manager or its affiliates.

Executive Compensation in 2024

As described above, our named executive officers are employed by our Manager or were employed by our Manager when they served as officers of the Company. We do not have agreements with any of our executive officers regarding their cash