Empire State Realty OGCP

Steve Horn is the Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer for Empire State Realty Trust serving as the Company's and Operating Partnership's principal accounting officer. Mr. Horn joins the company after more than a decade with Ernst & Young LLP serving as an auditor for a variety of clients, including some of ESRT's REIT peers and other real estate companies. Mr. Horn joined EY in 2009 as an Audit Associate in the Detroit office and, after transferring to New York and completing an international capital markets rotation through EY's London office, was promoted to Audit Senior Manager in the New York office, a position he has held from 2017 to the present. Mr. Horn is a certified public accountant, and earned a Bachelor of Arts, Accounting degree and a Master of Science, Accounting degree from Michigan State University in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Stephen V. Horn, the Company's current Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer will continue in his role as Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer, effective March 16, 2026.

Jean Sutherland appointed as Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer of the Company and Empire State Realty OP, L.P., the operating partnership of the Company effective on March 16, 2026. Ms. Sutherland, has served as Vice President, Financial Reporting and Accounting Policy for the Company since June 17, 2024. Prior to the Company, Ms. Sutherland spent over seven years at WeWork in lease accounting, financial reporting, and technical accounting, ultimately overseeing the financial reporting and technical accounting teams as the Global Head of Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting. Prior to WeWork, she worked at Ernst & Young LLP for over five years in Canada and New York, focusing on real estate, hospitality, construction and manufacturing clients. Ms. Sutherland is a certified public accountant and earned a Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies from Western University in Ontario, Canada in 2011.

On July 10, 2023, the Board of Directors of Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., appointed Hannah Yang, as an independent director, effective as of July 12, 2023. Hannah is a business leader with deep expertise in strategic growth, media and digital transformation. For more than a decade, she played a key role in the development of The New York Times Company's global subscription business. Hannah is currently the Chief Growth and Customer Officer of The Times, where she co-leads the cross-functional organization consisting of product development, engineering, data, design, marketing, research and sales to drive The Times's subscription growth globally. Prior to her current role, she held a variety of leadership positions with The Times since 2010, and served in sales development and strategic planning roles with the New England Media Group (which included The Boston Globe and Boston.com) from 2003 to 2007. She began her career as a corporate attorney at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC (now a part of Strategy&). Hannah received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

On November 30, 2020, the Board appointed Grant H. Hill to the Board as an independent director. Mr. 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. He is 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.

Christina Chiu is the President of Empire State Realty Trust. Prior to her appointment as President, Ms. Chiu served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since May 2020 when she joined ESRT, and was then appointed to both Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer in December 2022. Prior to joining ESRT, Ms. Chiu had an 18-year career at Morgan Stanley where she served as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Global Listed Real Assets Investing business, responsible for business development and capital raising efforts, institutional investor and consultant relationships, oversight of the day-to-day investing business, and execution of strategic initiatives. She began her career as a real estate investment banking analyst on both principal investing and strategic advisory transactions. Ms. Chiu is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee, vice chair of the ULI Technology & Real Estate Council, member of the NYU Stern Real Estate Board of Advisors, and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Partnership for NYC. She serves on the American Red Cross National Board of Governors, as well as the board of University Settlement Society of New York. Ms. Chiu earned a B.S. in Finance and Accounting summa cum laude from NYU Stern School of Business.

Anthony E. Malkin is Chairman 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. 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. 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, member of the Building Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Mr. Malkin received a bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard College.

On July 10, 2020, the Board appointed R. Paige Hood to the Board as an independent director, effective as of August 1, 2020. Mr. 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. Prior to this position, as General Account Portfolio Manager 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.

Steven J. Gilbert has over 47 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 director of Oaktree Capital Group LLC (NYSE: OAK), a global alternative investment manager, and a director of The Fairholme Funds (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 Harvard Business School.

Mr. George L. W. Malkin, Director of the company.

Patricia S. Han is the Chief Executive Officer of Daily Burn, Inc., a leading fitness tech brand, where she has been Chief Executive since June 2017. Daily Burn is an operating business of IAC. From 2013 to 2017, Ms. Han served as Chief Product Officer at IAC's Dotdash (formerly About.com), one of the top twenty 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. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1993 from Cornell University.

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, NihaoPay, Noom, OLO 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 (Unix applications). 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.

On July 10, 2023, the Board of Directors of Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., appointed Christina Van Tassell to the Board, as an independent director, effective as of July 12, 2023. Christina is a business leader with deep financial expertise. She has been a private and public company CFO, a private equity investor and led M&A transactions and restructurings. She also has broad experience in technology, media, social media and e-commerce. Christina has served as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global knowledge company and leader in research, publishing and knowledge solutions, since 2021. Previously, she held positions as Chief Financial Officer of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., owner of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Factiva, from 2017 to 2021, Xaxis, a global advertising technology company owned by WPP Plc, from 2013 to 2017, and Centurion Holdings LLC, an investment and advisory company, from 2004 to 2013. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she held senior roles in global capital markets, M&A, and other corporate finance functions during her 12-year tenure. Christina holds M.B.A.s from Columbia University and London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting and business administration from Muhlenberg College.

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.