Robert Perlmutter - Chatham Lodging Lead Independent Trustee

Mr. Robert D. Perlmutter is Lead Independent Trustee of Chatham Lodging Trust. Prior to April 2018, he was a Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with The Macerich Company, a publicly traded REIT. He joined Macerich in 2012 as Executive Vice President of Leasing. He previously was the managing member and founder of Davis Street Land Company, LLC, a privately held firm focused on the development, management and ownership of upscale shopping centers, which owned a 3.0 million square foot mall portfolio prior to its sale of assets to General Growth Properties and Taubman Centers in 2011. From 1983 to 1988, Mr. Perlmutter worked as an investment analyst for Heitman Financial Services, Ltd. in its acquisitions and dispositions division. From 1988 to 1990, he served as President of Heitman Financial, in which capacity he was responsible for overseeing all of the companys acquisitions, financings and dispositions. Mr. Perlmutter subsequently served as Chief Executive Officer of Chicagobased Heitman Retail Properties from 1990 to 1998, where he supervised overall operations and growth of its retail holdings from two retail properties to 20 directly managed malls and 29 joint ventures in regional malls. From 1998 to 2001, he also served on the board of directors of Prime Retail Inc., a NYSElisted outlet center company and is a former board member of the First Bank of Highland Park. Mr. Perlmutter should serve as a trustee due to his extensive experience in real estate development, acquisitions and dispositions that is relevant to the Companys own growth strategy and that he should serve on the Compensation Committee due to his previous role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in a publicly traded REIT and his experience with complex compensation issues. since 2019.