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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 chairman, and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, Inc. the Nation’s largest nonprofit provider of financial literacy services for youth and adults. Mr. Bryant is also chairman and chief executive officer of John Hope Bryant Enterprises, Bryant Group Ventures and Bryant Group Advisors. Until June 2024, he was the executive chairman of The Promise Homes Company, which is the largest for-profit minority-controlled owner of institutional-quality, single-family residential rental homes in the United States. John Hope Bryant is responsible for financial literacy becoming the official policy of the U.S. federal government. He is the only American citizen to ever inspire the renaming of a building on the White House campus; from the U.S. Treasury Annex Building to the Freedman’s Bank Building, in honor of Lincoln’s unfinished work to teach freed slaves about money, in 1865. Named to the prestigious Forbes BLK50 List in December 2024 and TIME Magazine’s inaugural The Closers List, recognizing 18 global leaders working to close the racial wealth gap, Mr. Bryant has dedicated his career to transforming economic systems for underserved communities and ensuring inclusive growth in the AI-driven future. He is a CNBC contributor, host of the iHeart Radio podcast, “Money and Wealth with John Hope Bryant,” a member of the CNBC Global Financial Wellness Council and the CNBC CEO Council, and a best-selling author of six books, including Financial Literacy For All, released April 2024. He is one of the only bestselling authors on economics and business leadership in the world today who is African American. Mr. Bryant was selected to serve as a director because of his experience as an entrepreneur and a real estate investor, his leadership skill and his deep connections to the community, all of which are expected to bring valuable insight to the Board.

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#### Marcie Edwards
has served as a director of the Company since her appointment by our Board on February 11, 2021. Ms. Edwards served as the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) from 2014 to 2017. In that capacity, she managed a city agency with an annual budget of more than $6 billion and approximately 10,000 employees. As part of her role at LADWP, she served as a member of the board of the Water and Power Employees’ Retirement Plan, overseeing more than $12 billion in investments. Prior to her tenure at LADWP, Ms. Edwards was the city manager of the City of Anaheim