Company: CHMI-PB
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014748
Chunk: 7

Company: Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 Officer |     |  61 |
| Robert C. Mercer, Jr. |     | Independent Director                  |     |  77 |
| Joseph Murin          |     | Independent Director                  |     |  75 |
| Sharon L. Cook        |     | Independent Director                  |     |  65 |
| Dale S. Hoffman       |     | Independent Director                  |     |  66 |

We believe that all of the director nominees are intelligent, experienced and proactive with respect to management and risk oversight, and that they exercise good judgment. The biographical descriptions below set forth certain information with respect to each director nominee, including the experience, qualifications, attributes or skills of each director nominee that led us to conclude that such person should serve as a director. Jeffrey B. Lown II has served as our President and as a director since the completion of our initial public offering in October 2013 and as our Chief Executive Officer since March 2017. Mr. Lown also served as our Chief Investment Officer from October 2013 through March 2016, at which time Julian Evans was appointed as Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Lown has over 25 years of combined experience in the financial services industry and the residential mortgage markets. We hired Mr. Lown on November 14, 2024 following our completion of the Internalization (see “Corporate Governance—Internalization” below for more information). From April 2012 to November 14, 2024, Mr. Lown was employed by Freedom Mortgage Corporation (“Freedom Mortgage”), and his services were provided to us through Cherry Hill Mortgage Management, LLC (“CHMM”), our former external manager, pursuant to the management agreement between us and CHMM. While at Freedom Mortgage, Mr. Lown served as Freedom Mortgage’s Executive Vice President in charge of strategic funding projects and capital markets until July 2016, at which time he began to focus his full-time efforts on us and the management of our business. Prior to joining Freedom Mortgage, Mr. Lown served as a Portfolio Manager at Avenue Capital Group from April 2011 to January 2012. Prior to co-founding and serving as a principal of Green Lake Investment Partners, LLC in the fall of 2010, Mr. Lown spent 11 months at New Oak Capital LLC as head of the residential mortgage loan business and as a member of the bank advisory group. Prior to joining New Oak Capital, Mr. Lown was a fellow at the Office of Thrift Supervision (