Board of Directors

Anthony E. Malkin is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. He joined its predecessor entities in 1989. Mr. Malkin has been a leader in existing building energy efficiency retrofits through coordinating the team of Clinton Climate Initiative, Johnson Controls, JLL, and Rocky Mountain Institute in a groundbreaking project at the Empire State Building (www.esbsustainability.com). Mr. Malkin led the development of standards for energy efficient office tenant installations which is now known as the Tenant Energy Optimization Program at the Urban Land Institute (https://tenantenergy.uli.org). Mr. Malkin is a board member of APi Group Corporation, the Real Estate Roundtable and Chair of its Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee, a member of the Climate Mobilization Advisory Board of the New York City Department of Buildings, a member of the Urban Land Institute, member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York, member of the Partnership for New York City’s Innovation Council, and a member of the Building Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Malkin received a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Harvard College.

Mr. Malkin was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his history with, and knowledge of, the company and his performance and achievements in his capacity as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the company.

Leslie D. Biddle is currently a Partner and President at Serengeti Asset Management. Prior to joining Serengeti in 2013, Ms. Biddle spent nearly 10 years at Goldman Sachs, where she was most recently Global Head of Commodity Sales and the Chief Financial Officer of the firm’s investments in the metals and mining sector. She held positions as head of Power, Metals/Industrial, Latin American and Environmental Commodities. Ms. Biddle was responsible for many of the structured transactions in the private equity and power spaces including the monetization of the Allegheny DWR Contract, the structuring of Calpine Construction Finance Company hedge, the Texas Genco acquisition, the Northern Tier Energy financing and the TXU leveraged buyout. Ms. Biddle was also a member of the firm’s Finance Committee, Business Practices Committee, Firmwide New Activity Committee, Structured Investment Products Committee, and European Audit and Compliance Committee. She was named Managing Director in 2004 and Partner in 2006. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Biddle was a Vice President at the AES Corporation focusing on project finance and power plant development. She also served as a Vice President at the Overseas Investment Corporation, providing political risk insurance and financing to U.S. companies expanding overseas. Ms. Biddle currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. She holds an A.B. from Colby College and has served as its Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Ms. Biddle was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on her extensive experience in global investment and finance.

Thomas J. DeRosa is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL). Welltower is an owner, manager, and developer of health care real estate and infrastructure, structured as a REIT. Previously, he served as the Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of the Rouse Company, a leading owner, operator and developer of commercial real estate and master planned residential communities, from September 2002 until November 2004 when it was merged with General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP). Prior to joining the Rouse Company, Mr. DeRosa spent over 20 years in investment banking. From 1992 to September 2002, Mr. DeRosa held various positions at Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB), including Global Co-Head of the Health Care Investment Banking Group, and at Alex Brown & Sons, including Managing Director of the Real Estate Investment Banking Group. Mr. DeRosa also served as a member of the board of directors of Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV), a manufacturer and service provider for a broad range of specialized products and components, from 2007 to 2010. Mr. DeRosa is a member of the Global Advisory Board of Value Retail PLC, a U.K.-based owner, operator and developer of luxury outlet shopping villages in Europe and Asia. Mr. DeRosa served on the board of directors of Georgetown University from 2007 to 2013 and the Board of Overseers of the Columbia University School of Business from 2018 to 2020. Mr. DeRosa received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Mr. DeRosa was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors because of his extensive experience as a senior executive and director of public, NYSE-listed companies, including REITs.

Steven J. Gilbert has over 50 years of experience in private equity investing, investment banking and law, and he has invested in and managed numerous companies during his career. Mr. Gilbert has served as Chairman of the board of directors of Gilbert Global Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund since 1998, as Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of MidOcean Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity firm since 2005, and as Co-Chairman of Birch Grove Capital, a credit hedge fund since 2013. Mr. Gilbert also serves as a director of MBIA, Inc. (NYSE: MBI), a provider of financial guarantee insurance, fixed-income asset management and other specialized financial services, since 2011, as Chairman of the Board of TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. (NYSE: TPH), a single family home builder, since 2013, as a Lead Director of Oaktree Capital Group LLC (NYSE: OAK), a global alternative investment manager, and a director of The Fairholme Funds, a mutual fund (NASDAQ: FAIRX). He was previously Director of Waterpik, Inc., a manufacturer of personal and oral healthcare products, from 2013 to 2017, Vice Chairman of Stone Tower Capital, a leading independent investment manager, from 2010 to 2012, and Chairman and Senior Managing Director of SUN Group (USA), an investment firm, from 2007 to 2009. Within the past five years, Mr. Gilbert has served as Chairman of the board of directors of DURA Automotive Systems, Inc., an independent designer and manufacturer of driver control systems, CPM Holdings, Inc. (HKG: 0906), a manufacturer of process equipment used for oilseed and animal feed production, Co-Chairman of True Temper Sports, Inc., a manufacturer of golf shafts and precision sports equipment, and director of Olympus Re, a reinsurance company, as well as director of several privately held companies. Mr. Gilbert is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America (East) and the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a Trustee of the New York University Langone Medical Center. Mr. Gilbert received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a law degree from the Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Gilbert was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his extensive experience leading companies in the financial services industry and serving as a director of public, NYSE-listed companies.

S. Michael Giliberto currently consults with investment management firms and has produced the Giliberto-Levy Commercial Mortgage Performance Index, an index that measures the investment performance of institutional-grade commercial mortgage whole loans, since 1993. He has consulted for several major real estate investment management firms and serves on the Real Estate Advisory Committee for the New York State Common Retirement Fund. He previously served as Director of Portfolio Strategy and Senior Portfolio Manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management from 2002 to 2010, and before that, he served as the head of Real Estate Research at J.P. Morgan Investment Management from 1996 to 2002. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Giliberto worked at Lehman Brothers, Inc. in the Fixed-Income Research department from 1993 to 1996 and at Salomon Brothers Inc. in the Real Estate Research department from 1989 to 1992. Before his career in the financial services industry, Mr. Giliberto was a professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Giliberto has authored multiple publications about real estate investment, performance, asset allocation and capital markets, and he has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business since 2007. In the past, he has served on the Real Estate Information Standards Board, and he was a director of the Pension Real Estate Association, where he served as Treasurer and Chairman and was awarded the 1996 Graaskamp Award for research excellence. Mr. Giliberto received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree in business economics from the University of Hartford, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Washington.

Mr. Giliberto was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his extensive experience in real estate investment and finance.

Starting in February 2020, Patricia S. Han is the Chief Product Officer of Care.com, the leading online care platform. Care.com is an operating business of IAC. From 2017 to 2020, Ms. Han served as the Chief Executive Officer at IAC’s Daily Burn, Inc., a leading fitness tech brand. From 2013 to 2017, Ms. Han served as Chief Product Officer at IAC’s Dotdash (formerly About.com), one of the top fifteen largest content publishers on the Internet. In 2012 and 2013, she served as the Senior Vice President of Product Management at WebMD LLC, one of the most trusted health brands on the web. Previously, Ms. Han held senior roles at DailyCandy, LLC, a pioneer in e-mail lifestyle newsletters, where she served as Vice President of Product Development and General Manager of Commerce from 2009 to 2012. Her professional experience includes serving as Vice President of Product Development at a variety of technology start-ups including Vindigo, Inc. (2000 to 2006) and Rave Wireless Inc. (2006 to 2007), and as Senior Web Producer for Juno Online Services (1998 to 2000). Ms. Han is credited with building some of the first widely-adopted mobile applications, including those for The New York Times and MapQuest. Ms. Han previously served as a member of the board of directors of Nutrisystem, Inc. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1993 from Cornell University.

Ms. Han was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on her extensive experience in digital media and commerce. Ms. Han was initially recommended to our Board of Directors as a potential candidate by an independent consultant working with our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Grant H. Hill is an owner and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club. Mr. Hill has invested in and developed more than $200 million of commercial real estate through Hill Ventures, Inc. He is the co-founder and a member of the investment committee of Penta Mezzanine Fund, a private investment firm that provides customized growth capital solutions to profitable, lower-middle-market companies nationwide. In January 2021, Mr. Hill was elected to the Board of Directors of the Campbell Soup Company. He is also an independent member of the Board of Governors of the NCAA, a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the NBA Retired Players Association and a member of the Board of Governors for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, amongst other professional and extensive community and not-for-profit involvements. He earned a B.A. in History from Duke University. Mr. Hill is one of the greatest college and professional basketball players of all time, and an Olympic gold medal winner.

Mr. Hill was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his extensive experience in consumer branding, leadership and team skills, and entrepreneurial successes.

R. Paige Hood has over 32 years of experience in the real estate finance industry spanning national and international portfolios and a wide variety of property types and sectors. He spent the last 31 years of his career with PGIM Real Estate Finance, an asset management subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc., where he most recently served as Chief Investment Officer from 2016 to 2019. Prior to this position, he served as General Account Portfolio Manager for 13 years, during which time he grew PGIM Real Estate Finance’s portfolio from a $16 billion domestic portfolio to over a $50 billion international portfolio. Mr. Hood earned a Top 100 Scholarship to, and his Bachelor of Science in Finance and his M.B.A from, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Mr. Hood was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his extensive experience in real estate finance.

James D. Robinson IV is currently a Founder and Managing Partner at RRE Ventures. He has been active within the technology community for over 30 years, and has led investments in and served on the boards of more than 40 technology companies. He is a Co-Founder and Director of Abra, and a Director of HYPR, Netsertive, Noom, Securrency and TheSkimm. Mr. Robinson is a Board Observer at Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Bitpay. Mr. Robinson has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 VC’s, as well as Institutional Investors’ Top Fintech Investors. Previously, he worked at H&Q Venture Capital and J.P. Morgan & Co. Earlier, he founded IV Systems. Mr. Robinson currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Olo Inc., an e-commerce platform for multi-location restaurant brands, since 2008. Mr. Robinson holds an MBA from Harvard and a joint degree in Computer Science & Business Administration from Antioch College. He is a director of the New York City Partnership Investment Fund and the HBS Alumni Angels.

Mr. Robinson was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his more than 30 years of management and board experience in the technology industry.