Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
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Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
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 was an Honors Program Attorney with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 1984 to 1986. Mr. Wald received a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law and a B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. |
|                      | WE BELIEVE THAT MR. WALD’S QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD INCLUDE                                                                                
 HIS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN MORTGAGE BANKING AND HIS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF LEGAL, REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE MATTERS IN THE MORTGAGE BANKING INDUSTRY. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 24 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

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Continuing Class II Directors The following information is furnished regarding our Class II directors (who will continue to serve on the Board until our 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify).

| Robin Josephs        
 AGE: 65              
 DIRECTOR SINCE: 2010 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |     | From 2005 to 2007,Ms. Josephswas a managing director of Starwood Capital Group L.P., a private equity firm specializing in real estate investments. From 1986 to 1996, Ms. Josephs was a senior executive with Goldman, Sachs & Co. serving in the real estate group of the investment banking division and, later, in the equity capital markets division. Ms. Josephs has served since 2017 as a member of the board of directors of Safehold Inc., an investor in commercial real estate ground leases, where she serves as chair of the audit committee and is a member of the nominating and governance and investment committees. In addition, Ms. Josephs has served since 2017 as a member of the board of directors of Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust investing primarily in commercial real estate and commercial real estate debt. Ms. Josephs also served as a member of the Board of Directors of iStar Inc. from 1998 to March 2023 until its merger with Safehold; of SVF Investment Corp. 2, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Softbank Investment Advisers, the investment manager to the Softbank Vision Funds from May 2021 to 2023; of Quinstreet, Inc. from 2013 to 2021; and of 
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