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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64, has served as one of our directors since August 2024. Ms. Gorka is the President of Threat Knowledge Group, which provides training and expertise on threats to U.S. national security. She is also
President of Revere Pay, Inc. and serves as the chair of the Fairfax County Republican Party. Ms. Gorka previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2017 until 2020. In
2020, Ms. Gorka served as Press Secretary for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and from 2020 to 2022 she served as the Director for the Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. Ms. Gorka graduated from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill with highest honors in 1978 and received her M.Sc. in Economics with Distinction from the London School of Economics in 1987.

Ms. Gorka was selected to serve as an independent director on our Board due to her background and experience, including her management
expertise and strategic analyses. Ms. Gorka adds value to our Board of Directors by further expanding its knowledge and expertise base, as well as its diversity of views.

Anthony W. Parker. Mr. Parker, age 79, has served as one of our directors since January 2013. Mr. Parker has also been a
director of Gladstone Capital since August 2001, a director of Gladstone Investment since June 2005 and a director of Gladstone Commercial since August 2003. Mr. Parker founded Parker Tide Corp. in 1997

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and has since served as Chairman of the Board. Parker Tide is a government contracting company providing mission critical solutions to the Federal Government. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Parker
was chairman of Capitol Resource Funding, Inc., a commercial finance company. Mr. Parker practiced corporate and tax law for over 15 years – from 1980 to 1983 at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, and in private practice from
1983 to 1992. From 1973 to 1977, Mr. Parker served as executive assistant to the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Mr. Parker is also the president of the Naval Academy Sailing Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation located in Annapolis, Maryland, a former director of the Bishop Walker School