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Mr. Sykes was appointed as a Director of the Company in December 2020 and is currently the Chairman of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee. He is also a member of Aimco’s Audit, Nominating, Environmental, Social, and Governance, and Investment Committees. Mr. Sykes is the Co-Managing Partner of Accordia Partners, LLC, a real estate development company, a role he has held since 2014. From 2005 to 2014, Mr. Sykes was the President and Managing Director of Urban Strategy America Fund, LLP, a New Boston real estate investment fund. From 1993 to the present, Mr. Sykes has served as President of Primary Corporation, a real estate company that owns commercial real estate. Mr. Sykes currently serves as a member of the Natixis Funds, Loomis Sayles Funds, and Natixis ETF’s Board of Trustees, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston External Diversity Advisory Board, the Eastern Bank Corporation Board of Advisors, the Real Estate Executive Council Emeritus Board (Former-Chairman), Urban Land Institute’s New England Advisory Council, NAIOP Massachusetts Board Management Committee among others. In addition to other Director roles, he previously served on the Board of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: ACRE) and The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2008 to 2014, including as its Chairman from 2012 to 2014. Mr. Sykes holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and is a graduate of The Harvard Business School Owner and President Management Program. Mr. Sykes brings particular expertise to the Board in the areas of real estate investment and development, real estate finance, and banking.