Company: LANDO
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-059811
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Company: GLADSTONE LAND Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 Wilkinson, age 79, has served as our director and as a director of Gladstone Investment,
Gladstone Capital and Gladstone Commercial since October 2014. In addition, Mr. Wilkinson has served as chairman of the Valuation Committee for each of the Company, Gladstone Investment, Gladstone Capital and Gladstone Commercial since January
2022. Mr. Wilkinson is the founder and was a general partner of Kitty Hawk Capital, a venture capital firm established in 1980 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, from its founding through 2016. He has served on the board of the North
Carolina State University Foundation and has previously served as Chairman of its Graduate School Advisory Board where he endowed the Wilkinson Research Ethics Fellowship. For many years he served on the board and as chairman of the finance
committee of the Ben Craig Center, a business incubator affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a past member and director of the National Venture Capital Association and is a past member and Chairman of the National
Association of Small Business Investment Companies. Mr. Wilkinson was the founding Chairman of the Carolinas Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and served on its board of

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directors from 2013 through December 2015, and has been a NACD Leadership Fellow, having completed the NACD’s program for corporate directors and its continuing educational requirements to
maintain this level of recognition. Mr. Wilkinson served as a director of R.F. Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD) from 1992, serving as its Chairman of its board of directors from July 2008, until its $11 billion merger with Triquint
Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TQNT) in January 2015 to form QORVO (Nasdaq: QRVO). He served as Lead Independent Director for QORVO from January 2015 until August 2018. During his many years of service on the RFMD and QORVO boards, he served on and
chaired both the Compensation and Governance and Nominating Committees for various periods. Mr. Wilkinson also serves or has served as a director of numerous venture-backed companies, both public and private. Mr. Wilkinson is a graduate of
N.C. State University (BS) and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (MBA).

Mr. Wilkinson was selected to serve as
an independent director on our Board due to his over 40