Mr. Stone was appointed as a Director of the Company in December 2020 and is currently the Chairman of the Nominating, Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee. He is also a member of Aimco’s Audit, Compensation and Human Resources, and Investment Committees. Mr. Stone is President and Chief Executive Officer of R. D. Stone Interests and a Managing Partner of Hicks Holdings, LLC. Mr. Stone has served in a variety of capacities at Cousins Properties, an NYSE-listed REIT, including as a director on the Cousins Properties board at various times between 2001 and the present. From 2003 to the present, Mr. Stone has served as a director of Tolleson Wealth Management, Inc., a privately held wealth management firm, and Tolleson Private Bank (chair of the audit committee and member of the compensation committee of each). Mr. Stone is a former Regent of Baylor University (Chairman from June 2009 to June 2011), former Director of Hunt Companies, Inc., Parkway, Inc., and Lone Star Bank, and former Chairman of the Banking Commission of Texas. Mr. Stone brings particular expertise to the Board in the areas of real estate operations and development and corporate and real estate finance.