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
Chunk 29
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, Mr. Small served as an investment professional at American Capital, Ltd., an alternative investment platform, from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Small began his career in investment banking at JMP Securities LLC, where he worked from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Small received an A.B. degree from Princeton University. |
|                      | WE BELIEVE THAT MR. SMALL’S QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD INCLUDE HIS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE INVESTMENT BANKING INDUSTRY, INCLUDING HIS EXPERTISE IN CORPORATE FINANCE AND HIS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE ADVISING BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAMS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMPANIES (INCLUDING MORTGAGE REITS AND OTHER MORTGAGE FINANCE FIRMS) ON CAPITAL MARKETS TRANSACTIONS, MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND OTHER STRATEGIC MATTERS. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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|                      | The Board recommends that stockholders vote“FOR”the election of each of Ms. Polsky and Mr. Small as Class III Directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 23 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

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Continuing Class I Directors The following information is furnished regarding our Class I directors (who will continue to serve on the Board until our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify).

| Laurie S.            
 Goodman              
 AGE: 69              
 DIRECTOR SINCE: 2014 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     | Ms. Goodmanis currently an Institute Fellow at the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating the debate on social and economic policy. Ms. Goodman founded the Housing Finance Policy Center in 2013, and served as its director or co-director from 2013 to 2021. Prior to joining the Urban Institute, she was with Amherst Securities Group, L.P., a boutique broker dealer specializing in securitized products, where she had been a Senior Managing Director since late 2008 leading a group known for its analysis of housing policy issues. Prior to her tenure at Amherst Securities, Ms. Goodman was head of Global Fixed Income Research and Manager