Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 31

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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later Credit Suisse), Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Knutson began his career in the Investment Banking Department of E.F. Hutton & Company Inc., serving as an Analyst and then as an Associate. Mr. Knutson holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Hamilton College. |
|                      | WE BELIEVE THAT MR. KNUTSON’S QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD INCLUDE HIS POSITION AS OUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AS WELL AS HIS PRIOR SENIOR-LEVEL POSITIONS WITH MFA, HIS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES, RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOANS AND CAPITAL MARKETS, HIS SUBSTANTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND HIS OVERALL EXPERIENCE IN THE INVESTMENT BANKING INDUSTRY, INCLUDING HIS EXPERTISE IN CORPORATE FINANCE. |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

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| Sheila A. Stamps     
 AGE: 67              
 DIRECTOR SINCE: 2021 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     | Ms. Stampscurrently serves on the Board of Directors of IQVIA Holdings Inc., a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry, where she serves on the audit committee. Ms. Stamps previously served on the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes Inc., a global shipping and mailing company that provides services to businesses and governments, from 2020 to 2024, where she served as chair of the executive compensation committee and a member of the audit committee. She also served on the Board of Directors of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., a leading global provider of outsourced aircraft and aviation operating services from 2018 to March 2023, where she served as chair of the audit and finance committee, and the Board of Directors of CIT Group, Inc., a financial holding company, from February 2014 to January 2022, where she served as a member of the audit and nominating & governance committees, as well as a member of the Board of CIT’s subsidiary, CIT Bank, N.A. From 2014 to 2018 Ms. Stamps served as a commissioner and audit committee