Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 27

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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Class I directors) and MFA’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Class II directors). Upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, Ms. Polsky and Mr. Small have been nominated by the Board to stand for election as Class III directors by the stockholders at the Annual Meeting to serve a term until our 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify. Ms. Polsky and Mr. Small are currently directors of MFA, and each has consented to stand for election at the Annual Meeting. If the candidacy of Ms. Polsky or Mr. Small should, for any reason, be withdrawn prior to the Annual Meeting, the proxies will be voted by the proxy holders in favor of such substituted candidate or candidates (if any) as shall be nominated by the Board or the Board may determine to reduce its size. The Board has no reason to believe that Ms. Polsky or Mr. Small would be unable or unwilling to serve as Class III directors. Set forth below is a summary of self-identified demographic characteristics for each of our directors, including Ms. Polsky and Mr. Small, the nominees for election at the Annual Meeting. We also provide the same for our continuing Class I and Class II directors. The Board has determined that all of our current directors are qualified to serve as directors of the Company. The biographies of each of the Board’s nominees standing for election or re-election and of our continuing directors, which follow below, contain information regarding each person’s service as a director, business experience and education, director positions held currently or at any time during the last five years and the experience, qualifications, attributes or skills that caused the Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to determine that the person should serve as a director. In addition to the specific information set forth in their respective biographies, we believe that each of our directors also possesses the tangible and intangible attributes and skills that are important to being an effective director on the Board, including experience in areas of expertise relevant and beneficial to our business and industry, a willingness and commitment to assume the responsibilities required of a director of the Company and the character and integrity we expect of directors of the Company.

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Demographics of the Board

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