Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001206774-25-000244
Chunk: 23

Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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| Name                   | Compensation Committee | Audit Committee | Nominating and Corporate 
               Governance 
                Committee | Risk Committee |
| Sandra Bell*           |                        |               X |                          |     X(Chair)** |
| Kevin G. Chavers       |                      X |                 |                          |     X(Chair)** |
| Gerard Creagh          |               X(Chair) |            X*** |                        X |                |
| Susan Mills            |                        |                 |                        X |              X |
| Brian P. Reilly        |                        |        X(Chair) |                          |              X |
| Debra W. Still         |                      X |                 |                 X(Chair) |                |
| Cynthia B. Walsh****   |                        |               X |                        X |                |
| Total Meetings in 2024 |                     14 |               8 |                       10 |              5 |

* Ms. Bell resigned from the Board
on April 9, 2025. In connection with Ms. Bell’s resignation, our Board of Directors reduced the size of the board from eight to
seven directors.

** For 2024, Ms. Chavers served as
chair of the risk committee until June 5, 2024, when Ms. Bell was appointed as the new chair. On April 11, 2025, Mr. Chavers was re-appointed
chair of the risk committee, in connection with Ms. Bell’s resignation.

***Mr. Creagh served on the audit committee
for all of fiscal year 2024. On April 1, 2025, he rotated off the audit committee, and Ms. Walsh was appointed to the audit committee.
On April 11, 2025, in connection with Ms. Bell’s resignation, Mr. Creagh was re-appointed to the audit committee.

**** Ms. Walsh was elected to the Board and
nominating and corporate governance committee on December 1, 2024 and the audit committee on April 1, 2025.

The functions performed by these standing committees are summarized
below and are set forth in more detail in their charters. The complete text of the charters for each standing committee can be found
on our website at www.chimerareit.com under “Corporate Governance – Governance Documents – Committee Charters.”

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Compensation Committee

Our Board of Directors has established
a compensation committee, which is currently composed of three of our independent directors, Mess