Diana F. Cantor

Director at Universal Corporation

DIANA F. CANTOR, is currently a Partner at Alternative Investment Management, LLC, an independent privately-held investment management firm, a position she has held since January 2010. In this role, she provides executive oversight as a member of the Board of Managers and advises on strategic business development and investment activities. Mrs. Cantor also serves as Vice Chairwoman and a Trustee of the Virginia Retirement System, for which she is responsible for the oversight and administration of the Commonwealth of Virginia's retirement system, the 20th largest public or private pension system in the United States. Mrs. Cantor is the co-founder and formerly a Managing Director of Hudson James Group LLC, a strategic advisory and consulting services firm, a position she held from February 2012 to December 2014. Mrs. Cantor served as a Managing Director with New York Private Bank and Trust from January 2008 through December 2009, where she participated in the expansion of the Bank’s wealth management activities. She is the founder and formerly an Executive Director of the Virginia College Savings Plan, an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a position she held from 1996 to 2007. In this role, she was responsible for the implementation and investment management of a $27 billion program. Earlier in her career, she served as a Vice President of Richmond Resources, Ltd., a real estate development, construction and management company, and as a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co., overseeing the firm’s leveraged buyout and internal investment funds and the merchant banking operations. Mrs. Cantor serves on the board of directors of VICI Properties Inc., an experiential-asset focused real estate investment trust, since 2018, and is a member of its Audit & Finance Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. She also serves as a director of Domino's Pizza, Inc., a global pizza restaurant chain and franchise pizza delivery company, since 2005, and is both Chairman of its Audit Committee and a member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mrs. Cantor previously served as a director and member of the Audit Committee of Revlon, Inc., a global cosmetics company, from 2013 to 2015, as a director of The Edelman Financial Group, Inc., a provider of investment advice, from 2011 to 2012, and as a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Media General, Inc., a provider of news, information and entertainment from 2005 until its merger with Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. to form Nexstar Media Group, Inc. in January 2017. Mrs. Cantor has served as a director for Universal Corporation since 2012 and is Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Finance and Pension Investment and the Compensation Committees.

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