Item 5.02.

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

Election of Directors

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, on December 15, 2017, the Company's board of directors (the "Board") took action to increase the number of directors constituting the entire board from five to eight directors, effective upon the consummation of the Merger, pursuant to the Company's bylaws.  The board of directors also elected  Robert J. Aalberts, Nicholas Nilsen and Shawn Nelson to serve as independent directors of the Company, to fill the vacancies created by the increase in the number of directors, in each case effective upon the consummation of the Merger.  There are no related party transactions involving any of Messrs. Aalberts, Nilsen or Nelson that are reportable under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Messrs. Aalberts, Nilsen and Nelson, like the Company's other independent directors, will participate in the Company's independent directors compensation plan.

 

Robert J. Aalberts (age 65) had served as an independent director of MVP I, and was a director of Vestin Group, Inc., from April 1999 to December 2005. He was a director for Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc., from January 2006 until he resigned in January 2008 and for Vestin Realty Mortgage II, Inc. from January 2006 until he resigned in November 2013. Most recently, Professor Aalberts was Clinical Professor of Business Law in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA from 2014 to June 2017. Prior to his position at Penn State, Professor Aalberts held the Ernst Lied Professor of Legal Studies professorship in the Lee College of Business at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1991 to 2014. Before UNLV, Professor Aalberts was an Associate Professor of Business Law at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, LA from 1984 to 1991. From 1982 through 1984, he served as an attorney for the Gulf Oil Company in its New Orleans office, specializing in contract negotiations and mineral law. Professor Aalberts has co-authored books relating to the regulatory environment and the law and business of real estate; including Real Estate Law (2015), now in its 9th edition, published by the Cengage Book Company. He is also the author of numerous legal articles dealing with various aspects of real estate, business and the practice of law. From 1992 to 2016, Professor Aalberts was the Editor-in-chief of the Real Estate Law Journal published by the Thomson-West Publishing Company. Professor Aalberts received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, a Masters of Arts from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences and Geography from Bemidji State University in Minnesota. He was admitted to the State Bar of Louisiana in 1982 (currently inactive status). Mr. Aalberts was selected to serve as an independent director of the Company because of his significant knowledge of, and experience in, the real estate industry and his experience as a public company director.

 

Nicholas Nilsen (age 80) had served as an independent director of MVP I. He has been involved in the financial industry for more than four decades. He has been in retirement during the past five years. Most recently, Mr. Nilsen served as a Senior Vice President of PNC Financial, a bank holding company, where he served from 1960 to 2000. He began his long career with PNC Financial as a stock analyst. Later, he managed corporate and Taft-Hartley pension plans for the bank. Mr. Nilsen served as an executive investment officer at the time of his retirement from PNC Financial. Mr. Nilsen is a CFA charter holder. Mr. Nilsen received a Bachelor's degree from Denison University and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University.  Mr. Nilsen was selected to serve as an independent director of the Company because of his significant knowledge of, and experience in, the finance industry and investment management.

Shawn Nelson (age 50) had served as an independent director of MVP I. Since June 2010, Mr. Nelson has served as a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors in Orange County, California, serving as chairman in 2013 and 2014. Mr. Nelson currently serves on the board of the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink) and was the former Chairman. He is a director of the Orange County Transportation Authority having served as the chair in 2014, and is a director of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Southern California Association of Governments, Transportation Corridor Agency, Foothill/Eastern, Southern California Water Committee, Orange County Council of Governments and Orange County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. From 1994 to 2010, Mr. Nelson was the managing partner of the law firm of Rizio & Nelson. From 1992 to 1994, he was the Leasing Director/Project Manager of S&P Company. Prior to that, from 1989 to 1992 Mr. Nelson served as the Leasing Director/Acquisitions Analyst for IDM Corp and from 1988 to 1989 he served as a Construction Superintendent for Pulte Home. Mr. Nelson has a Bachelor of Science degree in business with a certificate in real property development from the University of Southern California and a Juris Doctor Degree from Western State University College of Law. Mr. Nelson was selected to serve as an independent director of the Company due to his significant experience in the financial services and real estate industries.