Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-052437
Chunk: 17

Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
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urski was responsible for originating and executing mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital markets transactions and conducting general corporate finance advisory. Mr. Murski has worked on numerous public and private mergers and acquisitions transactions involving real estate clients such as Dream International REIT, Summit Industrial Income REIT, Realex Properties Corporation, InStorage REIT, Overland Realty Inc., Lone Star, Gazit America Inc. and Atlas Cold Storage. Mr. Murski previously worked in Brookfield’s merchant banking group investing into numerous real estate companies, prior to which he worked at Ernst & Young LLP. Since September 2020, Mr. Murski has also served as a board member of Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: CQP). He previously served for seven years on the board of the Greater Toronto Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and was a founding director of Trisura Guarantee Insurance Company. Mr. Murski brings to the Board of Directors extensive executive management experience as well as acquisition and transaction experience with a wide range of real estate clients. Mr. Murski is a CA, CPA, CFA charterholder and a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Board of Directors and Committees

Our common stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “CIO” and we are subject to the NYSE listing standards. We have adopted corporate governance guidelines and charters for the Audit, Compensation, Investment and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of the Board of Directors intended to satisfy NYSE listing standards. We have also adopted a code of business conduct and ethics for our directors and officers intended to satisfy NYSE listing standards and the definition of a “code of ethics” set forth in applicable SEC rules. Our corporate governance guidelines, code of ethics and these charters are available on our website at http://www.cioreit.com.

We operate under the direction of our Board of Directors. Our Board of Directors is responsible for the overall management and control of our affairs. Our Board of Directors, or the Investment Committee thereof, must approve all investment decisions involving the acquisitions of properties in accordance with our investment guidelines and upon recommendations made by our management.

We currently have six directors, five of whom our Board of Directors has determined are independent directors under standards established by the SEC and the NYSE. Our independent directors are John Sweet, Michael Mazan, John McLernon, Sabah Mirza and Mark Murski. Directors are elected annually by our stock