Company: CMCT
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0000908311-25-000030
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Company: Creative Media & Community Trust Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: 10-K/A
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 to serve for a one-year term and until his or her successor is elected and qualifies, or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal from office.

Set forth below are the names of the persons nominated as directors, their ages, their offices in the Company, if any, their principal occupations or employment for at least the past five years, the length of their tenure as directors of the Company and the names of other public companies in which such persons hold or have held directorships during the past five years.

| Name             |     | Age |     | Position                           |
| Douglas Bech     |     |  79 |     | Director (independent)             |
| John Hope Bryant |     |  59 |     | Director (independent)             |
| Marcie Edwards   |     |  68 |     | Director (independent)             |
| Shaul Kuba       |     |  62 |     | Director                           |
| Richard Ressler  |     |  66 |     | Director and Chairman of the Board |
| Avraham Shemesh  |     |  63 |     | Director                           |
| Elaine Wong      |     |  45 |     | Director (independent)             |

Douglas Bech has served as a director of the Company since March 2014, and since 1997 as founder and chief executive officer of Raintree Resorts International ("Raintree"), a private enterprise engaged in vacation ownership and resort operations in Mexico, the United States and Canada. Prior to founding Raintree, Mr. Bech practiced securities and corporate finance law from 1970 to 1997. Mr. Bech also served as a director of J2 Global, Inc. from November 2000 to October 2021 and from August 1988 through November 2000, he served as a director of eFax.com, a company J2 Global, Inc. acquired in November 2000. In October 2021 Mr. Bech was appointed non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc., a company which was spun off to the J2 (now renamed Ziff-Davis) shareholders. Mr. Bech also served as presiding independent director of HollyFrontier Corporation from July 2011 until May 2021, when Mr. Bech retired from its board of directors. Mr. Bech had previously served as a director of Frontier Oil Corporation from 1993 until its merger