Company: CMCT
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000908311-25-000044
Chunk: 69

Company: Creative Media & Community Trust Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 69
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 Ressler  |     |  66 |     | Director and Chairman of the Board |
| Avraham Shemesh  |     |  63 |     | Director                           |
| Elaine Wong      |     |  46 |     | Director (independent)             |

#### Douglas Bech
has served as a director of the Company since March 2014, and since 1997 as founder and chief executive officer of Raintree Resorts International ("Raintree"), a private enterprise engaged in vacation ownership and resort operations in Mexico, the United States and Canada. Prior to founding Raintree, Mr. Bech practiced securities and corporate finance law from 1970 to 1997. Mr. Bech also served as a director of J2 Global, Inc. from November 2000 to October 2021 and from August 1988 through November 2000, he served as a director of eFax.com, a company J2 Global, Inc. acquired in November 2000. In October 2021 Mr. Bech was appointed non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc., a company which was spun off to the J2 (now renamed Ziff-Davis) shareholders. Mr. Bech also served as presiding independent director of HollyFrontier Corporation from July 2011 until May 2021, when Mr. Bech retired from its board of directors. Mr. Bech had previously served as a director of Frontier Oil Corporation from 1993 until its merger with Holly Corporation in July 2011. Mr. Bech also served, from 2014 until February 1, 2016, as an independent trust manager of Moody National REIT II, Inc., a registered, non-traded real estate investment trust that acquires limited service hotels in the United States. Mr. Bech’s previous work as a securities and corporate finance lawyer, as a director of other diverse public companies, and his experience as a chief executive officer of a multi-national enterprise provides expertise on corporate governance, legal matters and finance, as well as a general business management perspective to the Board.

#### John Hope Bryant
has served as a director of the Company since November 2022. John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur, prominent thought leader, author, philanthropist, and a leading expert in financial literacy and economic inclusion. Referred to as the “conscience of capitalism” by numerous Fortune 500 CEOs, Mr. Bryant is the founder,