Board of Directors

Mr. Ahern served as Co-Founder, Principal and Chief Executive Officer of The Townsend Group, an institutional real estate advisory and investment management firm formed in 1986, until his retirement in May 2022 and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus. The Townsend Group serves as adviser to, or invests on behalf of, domestic and offshore public and private pension plans, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. Mr. Ahern has also served as an Independent Director of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust since 2017. Mr. Ahern is a past member of the Young Presidents Organization, the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), and the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of PREA and the Board of Editors of Institutional Real Estate Securities. Mr. Ahern has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including PREA, NAREIT and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers.

Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Dividend Declaration Committee
Member of the Pricing Committee

Since 2014, Ms. Abraham has served as Managing Director of Crimson Capital, which invests in and advises a broad range of early stage technology companies spanning data/analytics, cybersecurity, machine learning, e-commerce, educational technology, clean energy and healthcare. From 1999 to 2013, Ms. Abraham co-founded and served as Executive Vice President of comScore, a leader in digital measurement and analytics which went public in 2007. Prior to co-founding comScore, Ms. Abraham co-founded Paragren Technologies, which provided software for customer relationship management systems, and also served in various roles at Procter & Gamble and Information Resources, Inc., where she developed and commercialized a series of data-driven analytical products. Ms. Abraham also served as Independent Director and Chair of the Compensation Committee of CarLotz, Inc., an online consignment company for used vehicles from 2021 until 2022. Additionally, she serves on the boards of the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia and Tiger 21, a member-based organization focused on investment management and education. Ms. Abraham has been named a Fellow in the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute. Ms. Abraham holds a degree in Quantitative Business Analysis from Penn State University.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and ESG Committee

Ms. DeFlorio served as Managing Director in the U.S. Retail and Consumer Investment Banking Group with Deutsche Bank Securities from 2007 to 2013, a role in which she advised mid- to large-cap retail and e-commerce clients on shareholder value creation strategies, mergers and acquisitions, capital structure, and product and market expansion initiatives. Ms. DeFlorio has served as an Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Vivid Seats Inc., an online ticketing marketplace, since October 2021. Additionally, Ms. DeFlorio serves on several non-profit boards, including as a member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at The New School University, and as a member of the Boards of Directors at The Parsons School of Design and the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology. She also serves on the Advisory Council for the School of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Ms. DeFlorio earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from Harvard University.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Pricing Committee

David Lukes has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and has been a member of SITE Centers' Board of Directors since March 2017. Prior to joining SITE Centers, Mr. Lukes served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Equity One Inc. from June 2014 until March 2017 and served as Executive Vice President from May 2014 to June 2014. Mr. Lukes also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sears Holding Corporation affiliate Seritage Realty Trust from 2012 through April 2014 and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Olshan Properties from 2010 through 2012. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Lukes served in various senior management positions at Kimco Realty Corporation, including serving as its Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2010. Mr. Lukes has also served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Retail Value Inc., which previously owned and operated shopping centers located in the continentinal United States and Puerto Rico and is managed by SITE Centers, since 2018, and as an Independent Director of Citycon Oyj, an owner and manager of shopping centers in the Nordic region listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, since 2017. Mr. Lukes also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Mr. Lukes holds a bachelor's degree in environmental design from Miami University, a master's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science in real estate development from Columbia University.

Chair of the Dividend Declaration Committee
Chair of the Pricing Committee

Mr. MacFarlane is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MacFarlane Partners, which he founded in 1987 to provide real estate investment management services to institutional investors. Mr. MacFarlane has more than 40 years of real estate experience. Mr. MacFarlane has served as an Independent Director of Veris Residential Inc. (formally Mack-Cali Realty Corporation) since June 2021 and currently serves on its Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. Mr. MacFarlane is a co-founder and an emeritus board member of the Real Estate Executive Council, a member and former Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a member and former Director of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).

Chair of the Nominating and ESG Committee

Mr. Otto has served as the Chief Executive Officer of ECE Group Gmbh & Co. KG, a commercial real estate company based in Hamburg, Germany that manages assets in Europe, since 2000. Mr. Otto is a graduate of St. Clare’s, Oxford, Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Mr. Otto is a member of the Boards of Directors of the privately held companies Otto Group and Peek & Cloppenburg KG. Mr. Otto served as a director of Sonae Sierra Brazil S.A., which owns and operates retail real estate assets in Brazil, from 2014 to 2019 and of Deutsche Euroshop AG, which owns and operates retail real estate assets in Europe, from 2002 to 2022. Additionally, Mr. Otto is the Chairman of the Lebendige Stadt (“Vibrant City”) Foundation, HSV Campus gemeinnützige GmbH and the Alexander Otto Sportstiftung Foundation, is a member of the board of the Harvard Global Advisory Council and, together with his wife, established the Dorit and Alexander Otto Foundation.

Mr. Sholem joined MSD Partners, L.P., the family office of Michael and Susan Dell, in 2004 and currently serves as Founder and Chairman of MSD Real Estate. Prior to joining MSD, Mr. Sholem was Chairman of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, a real estate fund that he co-founded and that invested in a broad range of real estate-related assets, and a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to forming DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, Mr. Sholem spent ten years at Goldman Sachs in its New York and Los Angeles offices. Since March 2023, Mr. Sholem has served as an Independent Director and member of the nominating and corporate governance committee of Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. From July 2018 until May 2022, Mr. Sholem served as an Independent Director of Retail Value Inc., and from 1998 to 2018 Mr. Sholem served as an Independent Director of SITE Centers Corp. Mr. Sholem is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Roundtable and the University of California, Berkeley Real Estate Advisory Board and Brown University Presidents Leadership Council. Mr. Sholem received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Brown University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Member of the Nominating and ESG Committee

Ms. Sweeney has served as an advisor and principal of the New England Consulting Group since 2020, focusing on the group's restaurant and association practices. She has also served as a strategic partner to JLL since 2022 as part of the Non-Profit and Association practice group. She also serves as an Executive in Residence at The Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Ms. Sweeney served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Restaurant Association, the chief business and national trade association for the restaurant and foodservice industry, from October 2007 until her retirement in December 2019. Prior to joining the National Restaurant Association, Ms. Sweeney was the President of AARP Services, a subsidiary of AARP, where she was responsible for revenue growth and new product development for the 50+ market. Since September 2022, Ms. Sweeney has served as Independant Director, Chair of the Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee of RIV Capital Inc., a purpose-driven cannabis packaged goods company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. Ms. Sweeney also serves as chair of the board of directors of MedStar's National Medical Rehabilitation Hospital. Ms. Sweeney earned a Bachelor of Science in Government from Colby College, and an MBA in Marketing from The George Washington University.

Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Audit Committee