Company: CMCT
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000908311-25-000044
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Company: Creative Media & Community Trust Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form: PRE 14A
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 of the Company from March 2014 to March 2019. Mr. Thompson is also a principal, chief financial officer of CIM Group, L.P. and serves on CIM Group, L.P.’s Investment, Valuation Committee and the ICCS. He joined CIM Group, L.P. in 2009. In addition, Mr. Thompson has served as the chief executive officer and trustee of CIM Real Assets & Credit Fund, a closed-ended interval fund that seeks to invest in a mix of institutional-quality real estate and credit assets, since February 2019. Prior to joining CIM Group, L.P. in 2009, Mr. Thompson spent 15 years with Hilton Hotels Corporation, most recently as senior vice president and controller, where he was responsible for worldwide financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, internal control and technical accounting compliance. Mr. Thompson’s experience includes billions of dollars of real estate acquisitions and dispositions in the office, retail, multifamily, hotel, gaming and timeshare sectors, as well as significant capital markets experience. Mr. Thompson began his career as a C.P.A. in the Los Angeles office of Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Thompson received a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Southern California.

#### Barry N. Berlin
has been chief financial officer and secretary of the Company since August 2022. Mr. Berlin has been the executive vice president and treasurer of the Company since October 2008 and was chief financial officer of the Company’s predecessor from June 1993 to March 2014. He has been Chief Financial Officer of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary lending business since 1992 and has been the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of that business since 2020. In addition, Mr. Berlin has served in various finance and accounting roles within CIM Group and its affiliates since 2017 and is currently a managing director of CIM Group, L.P., chief financial officer of CIM Real Assets & Credit Fund, a closed-ended interval fund advised by an affiliate of CIM Group, L.P. that is registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, chief financial officer of CIM Capital, LLC, the Company’s operator and an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Berlin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Florida and is a certified public accountant. Mr. Berlin began his career in public accounting.

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