Company: VRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000924901-25-000035
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Company: Veris Residential, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 UCLA School of Law and an MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

BOARD SERVICE

Site Centers Corp. (2002 – 2024); Curbline Properties Corp. (2024-Present); Overland Tandberg ([2019-Present); and Veris Residential, Inc. (2021 – Present).

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Howard S. Stern

DIRECTOR | AGE 63

OCCUPATION

Founder and Principal, Stern & Associates, LLC

EXPERIENCE

Howard S. Stern was appointed to Veris Residential’s Board of Directors in 2020. He is currently the Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Stern has over 35 years of experience working in the real estate industry and has a deep knowledge of real estate entrepreneurship and advisory as well as commercial aspects of the REIT sector.

Mr. Stern is the Founder and Principal of Stern & Associates, LLC, a full-service real estate advisory and consulting firm established in 2014, and the Principal and Co-Founder of DSHS Student Housing Investment Group, a real estate vehicle that focuses solely on student housing. Mr. Stern currently serves as the Real Estate Chair for the Broe Real Estate Group, a family office developer/owner of more than 2,000 multifamily apartments in Denver, Colorado.

From 2010 to 2014, Mr. Stern was President and Director of Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. ("Hudson Pacific"; NYSE: HPP), a California-based office REIT. He co-founded Hudson Capital, the predecessor company to Hudson Pacific, in 2006 and in 2010, he led the company through its initial public offering and rebranding into Hudson Pacific. From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Stern served as Chief Investment Officer of Arden Realty, Inc., a twenty million-square-foot Southern California REIT that was sold to GE Capital in 2006. Earlier, Mr. Stern was Vice President of the Archon Group, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs & Co., served as Vice President and Manager of First Federal Republic Bank, and worked as Senior Asset Manager and Asset Manager for Unity Savings and Gibraltar Savings.

Mr. Stern holds a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

BOARD SERVICE

Veris Residential, Inc. (2020 – Present); Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. (2010 – 201