Safehold地租信托 SAFE

Mr. Michael Lane Trachtenberg joined the Company during the fourth quarter of 2025 and currently serves as our President. Mr. Trachtenberg is a member of our executive team and is responsible for the strategic and operational aspects of our business. Mr. Trachtenberg has more than two decades of operational and real estate experience. Mr. Trachtenberg previously held positions at Lubert-Adler, an institutional real estate investment manager, from 2005 until February 2025, including most recently as President from 2024 and Managing Partner from 2020. From February 2025 until December 2025, he served as a consultant for Lubert-Adler. Mr. Trachtenberg holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from New York University.

Mr. Jay S. Sugarman is our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He has served as a member of our Board since 1996, as our Chief Executive Officer since 1997, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Old SAFE from 2017 until consummation of the Merger. Prior to forming the Company, he managed private investment funds on behalf of the Burden family (a branch of the Vanderbilt family) and the Ziff family. Mr. Sugarman received an undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was nominated for valedictorian and received the Paul Volcker Award in Economics, and a M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar and recipient of the Loeb Award in Finance and the Copeland Award and Gillette Prize in Marketing.

Mr. Brett Asnas currently serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Asnas was promoted to such position in February 2022 after serving as our Executive Vice President and Head of Capital Markets since 2018. Mr. Asnas is responsible for overseeing capital markets, investor relations, treasury, finance, accounting, tax, strategy, information technology and ESG. He manages relationships across investment banks, investors and lenders, rating agencies and analysts. He directs the finance and accounting group's budgeting, forecasting, management and performance reporting and strategic analysis. Mr. Asnas has vast experience in debt and equity capital markets across single asset, portfolio and corporate transactions. Mr. Asnas joined the Company in 2008 and previously held positions in the real estate private equity business at Fortress Investment Group, the real estate investment banking division at Nomura Securities, as well as structured finance advisory at Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Asnas holds a B.S. degree in Finance from the School of Management at Binghamton University.

Mr. Stefan M. Selig is the founder and managing partner of BridgePark Advisors LLC, a strategic and financial advisory firm created in 2017. Since consummation of the Merger, Mr. Selig has served as our lead independent director. He served as lead independent director of Old SAFE from 2017 until consummation of the Merger. Mr. Selig served as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce from June 2014 to June 2016, and during this period headed the International Trade Administration, a global bureau of more than 2,200 trade and investment professionals. During this period, he also served as the Executive Director of the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, sat on the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, was a Commissioner for the Congressional Executive Commission on China and was the Executive Director of the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. Prior to that, he held various senior level leadership positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch beginning in 1999, including being the Executive Vice Chairman of Global Corporate & Investment Banking from 2009 to 2014, and prior to that, he was Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he held various senior investment banking positions at UBS Securities and Wasserstein Parella & Co. and began his investment banking career at The First Boston Corporation. Mr. Selig currently serves as a director and a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committees of Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), and as a director of other private companies. Mr. Selig was also a director of 5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEAM) from 2023 to 2024, a director and member of the Audit Committee of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE: VNTR) in 2023, a director and a member of the Audit Committee of Rotor Acquisition Corp. in 2021, a director and member of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of Tuscan Holdings Corp from 2019 to 2021, and a director of Entercom Communications Corp. from 2017 to 2021. Mr. Selig holds a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University, a General Course Certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ms. Robin Josephs has served as one of our Directors since 1998. Ms. Josephs served as our lead independent director from 2009 until consummation of the Merger, with duties that included presiding at all executive sessions of the independent directors and serving as principal liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors. From 2005 to 2007, Ms. Josephs was a Managing Director of Starwood Capital Group L.P., a private equity firm specializing in real estate investments. Prior to that, Ms. Josephs was a senior executive with Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1986 to 1996 in various capacities. She served as a director of Old SAFE from 2017 until consummation of the Merger. She currently serves as a director, Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE: MFA), which is primarily engaged in investing in residential mortgage-backed securities, as a director and member of the Audit Committee of Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., a non-traded REIT. Ms. Josephs was also a director and a member of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees of SVF Investment Corp. 2 from 2021 to 2023 and a director and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee of QuinStreet, Inc. from 2013 to 2021. Ms. Josephs is a trustee of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation. Ms. Josephs received a B.S. degree in Economics magna cum laude from the Wharton School (Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.B.A. degree from Columbia University.

Mr. Barry W. Ridings has served as one of our Directors since 2011. Mr. Ridings retired as a Senior Advisor at Lazard Freres & Co. LLC on December 31, 2022, having previously served as Vice Chairman of U.S. Investment Banking and in other executive positions at the firm for more than 20 years. He has over 35 years of experience in debt and equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. Mr. Ridings serves as a director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Republic Airways Holdings (NASDAQ: RJET), a regional airline in the United States operating as American Eagle, Delta Connection and United Express. Mr. Ridings has a B.A. in Religion from Colgate University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Cornell University.

Mr. Jay S. Nydick has been Co-Founder and Principal of Prospect Ridge Advisors LLC, a leading real estate investment manager, since 2019. He previously served as the Co-Head and Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Real Estate Investment Group at AB Global from 2009 until 2019. He served as a director of Old SAFE from 2017 until consummation of the Merger. Mr. Nydick was the president of the Company from November 2004 until September 2009. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Nydick spent 14 years as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Nydick has significant experience in capital markets and commercial real estate. Mr. Nydick holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University where he graduated as a Presidential Scholar and an M.B.A. degree from Columbia University.

On June 4, 2025, Safehold Inc. appointed Christopher Uhlick, as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company effective July 7, 2025. Mr. Uhlick previously served as Senior Vice President, Accounting Policy & Financial Reporting of SL Green Realty Corp. since 2021. He also served as Senior Manager of Financial Reporting of W.P. Carey, Inc. from 2017 to 2021. Mr. Uhlick began his career at Ernst & Young in 2011 and remained there until 2017. Mr. Uhlick is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of New York and holds a B.B.A and M.B.A from Pace University.