Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
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Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
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 chair on the Board of the New York State Insurance Fund, the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurance provider. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Executive Vice President at DBI, LLC, a private mortgage investment company. From 2008 to 2011 Ms. Stamps served as Director of Pension Investments and Cash Management at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, and from 2004 to 2005 she was a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2004, Ms. Stamps served as a Managing Director and Head of Relationship Management, Financial Institutions, at Bank of America Corp. (formerly FleetBoston). From 1982 to 2003, she held a number of executive positions with Bank One Corporation (now JPMorgan), including Managing Director and Head of European Asset-Backed Securitization and Managing Director and Senior Originator of Asset-Backed Securitization. Ms. Stamps has a B.S. in Management Sciences from Duke University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago. |
|                      | WE BELIEVE THAT MS. STAMPS’ QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD INCLUDE HER EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY, HER SIGNIFICANT KNOWLEDGE OF FINANCE AND THE U.S. CAPITAL MARKETS, HER EXPERIENCE AS A SENIOR EXECUTIVE WITH STRATEGY, RISK AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE, HER SUBSTANTIAL SERVICE ON THE BOARDS AND BOARD COMMITTEES OF OTHER PUBLIC COMPANIES AND HER EXPERIENCE WITH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

In accordance with our Charter and Bylaws, vacancies occurring on the Board as a result of death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause may be filled only by a majority of the remaining directors in office, even if the remaining directors do not constitute a quorum and any director elected to fill a vacancy holds office for the remainder of the full term of the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred and until a successor is duly elected and qualifies. There is no familial relationship among any of the members of our Board or executive officers.

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