Steven R. Hash

Steven R. Hash has served as a director since December 2013 and has served as Lead Director since March 2016. Mr. Hash is the Prior President, Chief Operating Officer, and Co-Founder of Renaissance Macro Research, LLC, an equity research and trading firm focused on macro research in the investment strategy, economics, and Washington policy sectors, which he co-founded in 2012 and for which served as the President and Chief Operating Officer until April 2020, and as the Consultant until December 2020. Between 1993 and 2012, Mr. Hash held various leadership positions with Lehman Brothers (and its successor, Barclays Capital), including Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking from 2006 to 2012, Chief Operating Officer of Global Investment Banking from 2008 to 2011, Director of Global Equity Research from 2003 to 2006, Director of U.S. Equity Research from 1999 to 2003, and Senior Equity Research Analyst from 1993 to 1999. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Hash held various positions with Oppenheimer & Company's Equity Research Department, including senior research analyst. He began his career in 1988 as an auditor for the accounting and consulting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. He has served as a director of The Macerich Company (NYSE: MAC) since May 2015 (and is currently Non-Executive Chairman of the Board), as the lead director of Nuveen Global Cities REIT, Inc., a non-traded REIT, since January 2018, and as a Director of DiamondPeak Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: DPHC) from February 2019 to October 2020. Mr. Hash received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Loyola University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University.