Nina B. Matis currently serves as our manager's Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer. Ms. Matis assumed her current position in 2018 after formerly serving as Chief Investment Officer in addition to her role as Chief Legal Officer. Previously, she served as iStar’s Executive Vice President since 1999 and as General Counsel of iStar (and its predecessor) since 1996. She serves as a member of iStar’s Senior Management Investment Committee, which has authority to approve any of iStar’s investments in an amount greater than $25 million and up to and including $60 million. Ms. Matis previously served as a partner in the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, one of iStar’s principal outside law firms, and was an inactive special capital partner of the firm until her withdrawal from this position during 2010. From 1984 through 1987, Ms. Matis was an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law where she taught real estate transactions. Ms. Matis previously served as a director of New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. She is a director of Signature Theater Company, Thomas Cole House, a National Historic Landmark that includes the home and the studio of painter Thomas Cole, and National Partnership for Women & Families and WIN (Women in Need), both of which are nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organizations. Ms. Matis received a B.A. degree, with honors, from Smith College and a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law.