Ms. Higgins has been a trustee of the Company since December 2018. She retired from serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Affinity Gaming Inc. ("Affinity"), a nine-casino multi-jurisdictional gaming company, in December 2022, and then stayed on as a consultant to the new Chief Executive Officer until September 2023. In her role as Chief Executive Officer, she was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the casinos as well as all aspects of the company s accounting, finance and investor relation functions. In addition to her primary employment as Chief Executive Officer of Affinity, Ms. Higgins was retired as Chief Executive Officer and non-independent director of Gaming and Hospitality Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: GHACU), a special purpose acquisition company or "SPAC" formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with Affinity and one or more businesses, which went public in February 2021. Before becoming Chief Executive Officer at Affinity, she served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Affinity from 2018. From 2017 to 2018, she served as Chief Financial Officer of VICI Properties, a REIT spin off from Caesars Entertainment, and prior to that as Chief Financial Officer for Caesars Entertainment Operating Company from 2014 to 2017. For the 17 years prior to that, Ms. Higgins served as Chief Financial Officer at companies such as Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc., Herbst Gaming, Inc. and Camco, Inc. Ms. Higgins has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California and a Master s Degree in Business Administration from Memphis State University. The Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, determined that Ms. Higgins should serve as a trustee due to her extensive experience in finance, including with respect to REITs and that she should serve on the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee due to her financial acumen, including most recently as a result of serving as Chief Executive Officer and, prior to that, Chief Financial Officer of Affinity. The Board of Trustees has appointed Ms. Higgins to become lead independent trustee and Chair of the Compensation Committee following the Company s annual meeting in May 2025.