Company: CMCT
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000908311-25-000044
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Company: Creative Media & Community Trust Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-13
Form: PRE 14A
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 new transactions as a result of his experience with CIM Group L.P., including as co-founder thereof, as well as his leadership roles at CIM Group L.P., all of which are expected to bring valuable insight to the Board of Directors.

#### Richard Ressler
has served as director and chairman of the Company since March 2014. Mr. Ressler is the founder and president of Orchard Capital Corporation (“Orchard Capital”), a firm that provides consulting and advisory services to companies in which Orchard Capital or its affiliates invest. Through his affiliation with Orchard Capital, Mr. Ressler serves in various senior capacities with, among others, CIM, a community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer and the indirect parent of CIM Real Estate Finance Management, LLC, the external manager of CIM Real Estate Finance Trust, Inc. (“CMFT”), Orchard First Source Asset Management Holdings, LLC ( “OFSAM Holdings”), a holding company consisting of asset management businesses, including OFS Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment adviser focusing primarily on investments in middle-market loans and broadly syndicated loans, debt and equity positions in CLOs and other structured credit investments and other registered investment advisers focusing primarily on investments in broadly syndicated loan, and OCV Management, LLC (“OCV”), an investor, owner and operator of technology companies. Mr. Ressler also serves as a board member for various public and private companies in which Orchard Capital or its affiliates invest. Mr. Ressler served as non-executive chairman of the board of Ziff Davis, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZD), formerly known as j2Global, Inc., from 1997 until May 2022 and as its chief executive officer from 1997 to 2000. In addition, he has also served as the chief executive officer and president and as a director of CMFT, a non-listed REIT operated by an affiliate of CIM that invests in net lease core real estate assets as well as real estate loans and other credit investments, since February 2018, and has served as chairman of its board of directors since August 2018. Mr. Ressler has served as the chairman of the investment risk management committee of CMFT since April 2022 and served as a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee from August 2018 to March 2022. Mr. Ressler served as the chief executive officer, president and a director of CIM Income NAV, Inc. (“CIM Income NAV”) from February 2018