Company: REX
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000930413-25-001442
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Company: REX AMERICAN RESOURCES Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 communications between management and the Board.

EDWARD M. KRESS, 75, has been our Secretary since 1984 and a director since 1985. Mr. Kress has been a partner of the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (formerly Chernesky, Heyman & Kress P.L.L.), our legal counsel, since 1988. Mr. Kress has practiced law in Dayton, Ohio since 1974. Mr. Kress, a lawyer and our legal counsel, provides the Board with critical legal advice and perspective.

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DAVID S. HARRIS, 65, has been a director since 2004 and Lead Director since 2015. Mr. Harris has served as President of Grant Capital, Inc., a private investment company, since 2002. Previously, he was a director of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., a restaurant franchisee, where he served in various roles from 2012 to 2024, including Chairman of the Audit and Compensation Committees and Chairman of the Board from 2020 to 2024. Mr. Harris served as chief operating officer of Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, from 2020 to 2021. Mr. Harris’ experience in corporate finance and capital markets and previous experience as a director of public companies is valuable to the Board in developing strategy and evaluating senior management.

CHARLES A. ELCAN, 61, has been a director since 2003. Mr. Elcan has served as a partner of Frisco Partners since 2017. Mr. Elcan was previously a founder of, and President until 2017 of, China Healthcare Corporation, organized in 2008 to build and operate hospitals in China. Mr. Elcan was Executive Vice President—Medical Office Properties of Health Care Property Investors, Inc. (HCP), a real estate investment trust specializing in health care related real estate, from 2003 to 2008, and served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of MedCap Properties, LLC, a real estate company located in Nashville, Tennessee that owned, operated and developed real estate in the healthcare field, from 1998 to 2003. (HCP acquired MedCap Properties in 2003.) From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Elcan was a founder and investor in Behavioral Healthcare Corporation (now Ardent Health Services LLC), a healthcare company that owns and operates acute care hospitals.