Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
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Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 (f/k/a Parity-Partners), a community-driven leadership platform focused on mentorship and professional development for women and minorities within finance. For the past decade, Ms. Effron has been an active angel investor and advisor to diverse founders including Learnvest, Springboard, Finhabits, The Helm, and OurOffice. She is a Limited Partner in several women- and diverse-led funds including 645Ventures, Avid Ventures, Inspired Capital, Stellation Capital, Clerisy, and Invictus Global Management. Ms. Effron is a Founding Member and the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for a New York non-profit, IDiF, which seeks to advance representation of woman and minorities in the asset management industry, create a culture of capital that embraces diversity and accelerate economic justice. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors for Code Nation, which strives to equip students in under-resourced schools with fundamental coding skills and professional experiences that together create access to careers in technology.

Due to her diverse business and leadership experience in the commercial real estate and capital markets industries, the Board of Directors has concluded that Ms. Effron should serve as our director.

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Joseph Martello . Mr. Martello has served as one of our directors since June 2003. Since 1999, Mr. Martello has been Chief Operating Officer of Arbor Management, LLC, which is the managing member of Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC ("ACM"). He is responsible for management of the investment portfolio and overseeing the day-to-day operations within Arbor Management. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Martello was the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of ACM. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Martello was the CFO of Arbor National Holdings, Inc., the predecessor company of ACM. Prior to that, he was a senior manager with the international accounting and consulting firm of Ernst & Young for eleven years.

As a senior executive with significant financial services experience who has served within the ACM group of companies for more than 30 years, Mr. Martello brings a breadth of knowledge about real estate matters, as well as the business and operations of the Company. This led the Board of Directors to conclude that Mr. Martello should serve as our director.

Edward Farrell. Mr. Farrell has served as one of our directors since June 2018. Mr. Farrell has more than 35 years of financial administration and leadership experience in the