Company: GMRE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-029872
Chunk: 17

Company: Global Medical REIT Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 17
---
 40 countries, with in-depth experience beyond serving as a corporate executive for the multiple locations in the United States and Great Britain to include work in Egypt, Turkey, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Sudan, Sahelian Africa, Haiti, Trinidad, Bahamas, Philippines, China, Indonesia, and India. Mr. Cole has a son who is a non-executive employee of the Company, performing operational management services for the Company. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of our Board has concluded that Mr. Cole should serve as a director in recognition of his abilities to assist our Company in expanding its business and the contributions he can make to our strategic direction. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of our Board also took into account that Mr. Cole is “independent” under SEC Rule 10A-3 and under Sections 303A.02 and 303A.07 of the listing standards of the NYSE and that his financial expertise qualifies him to serve on our Audit Committee. Matthew L. Cypher, Ph.D .Director since March 2016. In July 2012, Dr. Cypher joined the faculty at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as the director of the Real Estate Finance Initiative (since April 2015, the Steers Center for Global Real Estate). He serves as the Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate and tailors coursework to teach the Four Quadrants of the real estate capital markets — public, private, debt and equity. From 2005 to 2012, he served as a director at Invesco Real Estate (“ Invesco”) where he was responsible for oversight of the underwriting group, which acquired $10.2 billion worth of institutional real estate during his leadership tenure. Dr. Cypher personally underwrote $1.5 billion of acquisitions culminating with the purchase of 230 Park Avenue in New York, which Invesco acquired on behalf of its client capital in June 2011. He also oversaw the valuations group, which marked to market Invesco’s more than $13 billion North American portfolio and served as a member of the firm’s investment committee and investment strategy group. He has held positions as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University and a Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Cypher holds a B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University and a Masters and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of our Board has concluded that Dr. Cypher should