Company: INVH
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-049911
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Company: Invitation Homes Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
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 and finance background, including her chairing Dentons’ Real Estate Practice and Financial Institutions Sector, her expertise in transactional, operational, and regulatory matters including affordable housing and community development, strategic vision, and her risk management experience, which are a complement to the skills and qualifications of our directors. The Board also considered Ms. Barbe’s leadership in strategic implementation of corporate social responsibility initiatives. |

#### 2025 Proxy Statement11
Proposal No. 1: Election of Directors

| Age: 56Director Since: 2024IndependentCommittees:Audit CommitteeNominating and Corporate Governance Committee Skills and Qualifications: |     | H. Wyman Howard III Mr. Howard has served on the Board since October 2024. Mr. Howard retired from the U.S. Navy in September 2022 as Rear Admiral (Upper Half) after over 32 years of service in Naval Special Warfare and Joint Special Operations. He has had multiple tours in command of Special Operations Joint Task Forces and was among the first to deploy into Afghanistan following the attacks on September 11, 2001. The combat contributions of the teams Mr. Howard commanded, and with whom he served, were recognized with five Presidential Unit Citations, a Navy Unit Commendation medal, and four Joint Meritorious Unit Awards. Mr. Howard’s joint, interagency, and intelligence experience include service as the second Director of Operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2016, Commander, Special Operation Command Central from 2018-2020, and as the Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command, from 2020 to 2022, which are equivalent leadership roles of a Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, respectively. Mr. Howard also serves on the board of Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BAER), an aerial wildfire suppression and aerospace services company. Mr. Howard is a Frontier Scientific Solutions partner, a provider of life sciences supply chain solutions, a McKinsey & Co. Senior Advisor, and an advisor to a portfolio of Advanced Industry sector companies. Mr. Howard holds a Professional Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Our Board considered Mr. Howard's distinctive leadership at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels and his unique sensitivity to strategic risks and a deep set of interagency and governmental relationships. His deep experience in risk mitigation, cyber threats, and innovative security solutions, and strong understanding of the key strategic challenges and opportunities, make him