On August 3, 2021, Resource REIT, Inc.’s board of directors increased the size of the board from six to eight members and appointed Paula Baiman Brown and Alan Riffkin to serve as independent directors of the Company and as members of the board of directors’ Special Committee. Paula Baiman Brown has served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Lanard & Axilbund, LLC (d/b/a Colliers International) from March 2010 to the present. From March 1993 to March 2009, Ms. Brown was counsel at Ledgewood, a law firm where she practiced real estate and real estate finance law. Alan F. Riffkin is the Managing Member of AFR Capital Advisory LLC, a strategic advisor to real estate owners and operators since December 2020. From 2003 to December 2019, Mr. Riffkin held positions as Director to Managing Director of the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Lazard Freres & Co LLC. From 1994 to 2003, he held positions as Associate to Vice President of the Real Estate, Technology and Industrial Groups in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs & Co.