Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
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Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 controls, and the overall quality of the Company’s financial reporting.

Based on the review and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee has recommended to the Board of Directors that the audited financial statements be included in the Company’s 2024 Annual Report for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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### EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Our executive officers are elected annually by our Board of Directors and serve for a term of one year and until their respective successors are elected and qualify. Set forth below is information regarding our executive officers, as of the date of this proxy statement, unless otherwise indicated:

| Name               |     | Age |     | Position                                                                                        |
| Ivan Kaufman(*)    |     |  64 |     | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President                       |
| John Caulfield     |     |  60 |     | Chief Operating Officer — Agency Lending                                                        |
| Paul Elenio        |     |  57 |     | Chief Financial Officer                                                                         |
| Fred Weber         |     |  64 |     | Executive Vice President — Structured Finance and Principal Transactions                        |
| Gene Kilgore       |     |  58 |     | Executive Vice President — Structured Securitization                                            |
| Maysa Vahidi       |     |  49 |     | Executive Vice President, General Counsel                                                       |
| John Natalone      |     |  59 |     | Executive Vice President — Treasury and Servicing                                               |
| Danny van der Reis |     |  57 |     | Executive Vice President — Servicing and Asset Management                                       |
| Gianni Ottaviano   |     |  53 |     | Executive Vice President — Structured Finance Production                                        |
| Steven Katz        |     |  54 |     | Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer — Residential Financing                   |
| David E. Friedman  |     |  44 |     | Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer and Head of Non-Agency Production & Syndications |
| Andrew Guziewicz   |     |  65 |     | Managing Director and Chief Credit Officer — Structured Finance                                 |
| Thomas Ridings     |     |  57 |     | Managing Director and Chief Accounting Officer                                                  |

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(*) Biographical information