Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001206774-25-000244
Chunk: 8

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 the SEC. These SEC filings are available to the public from commercial document retrieval services and at
the Internet site maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.

Our website is www.chimerareit.com.
We make available on this website under “Filings & Reports – SEC Filings,” free of charge, our annual reports on
Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable
after we electronically file or furnish such materials to the SEC.

| PROPOSAL 1            
 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS |

We have three classes of Directors.
The terms of our current Class III Directors, Phillip J. Kardis II, Brian P. Reilly and Cythnia B. Walsh, expire at the Annual Meeting.
We have nominated Brian P. Reilly and Cythnia B. Walsh for election as Class III Directors to serve until our annual meeting of stockholders
in 2028, and Phillip J. Kardis II for election as a Class II Director to serve until our annual meeting of stockholders in 2027.

Set forth below are the names
and certain biographical information on each of our nominees for our directors to be elected as the Annual Meeting, as well as each of
our continuing directors.

| Name                   | Current 
 Class   | Age* | Independent | Director      
 Since         |
| Kevin G. Chavers       | I       |   61 | Yes         | June 2021     |
| Gerard                 
 Creagh                 | I       |   67 | Yes         | April 2010    |
| Susan Mills            | I       |   65 | Yes         | November 2023 |
| Debra W. Still         | II      |   72 | Yes         | March 2018    |
| Phillip J. Kardis II** | III     |   63 | No          | December 2022 |
| Brian P. Reilly        | III     |   65 | Yes         | July 2019     |
| Cynthia B. Walsh***    | III     |   60 | Yes         | December 2024 |

*As of June 10, 2025

**After Ms. Bell’s resignation
on April 9, 2025, there was only one continuing Class II director. In order to keep the classes of the board as equal in size as possible,
Phillip J. Kardis