Biography

Stefan M. Selig is the founder and managing partner of BridgePark Advisors LLC, a strategic and financial advisory firm. Since consummation of the Merger, Mr. Selig serves as our lead independent director. He served as lead independent director of Old SAFE from 2017 until consummation of the Merger. Mr. Selig served as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce from June 2014 to June 2016, and during this period headed the International Trade Administration, a global bureau of more than 2,200 trade and investment professionals. During this period, he also served as the Executive Director of the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, sat on the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, was a Commissioner for the Congressional Executive Commission on China and was the Executive Director of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. Prior to that, he held various senior level leadership positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch beginning in 1999, including being the Executive Vice Chairman of Global Corporate & Investment Banking from 2009 to 2014, and prior to that, he was Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he held various senior investment banking positions at UBS Securities and Wasserstein Parella & Co., and began his investment banking career at The First Boston Corporation. Mr. Selig currently serves as a director and a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committees of Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Venator Materials PLC (NYSE: VNTR) and as a director of other private companies. Mr. Selig was nominated to serve on our Board based on his extensive investment banking, government and economic policy experience.