Stratus Properties Appoints Kate B. Henriksen to Board

1/27/21

Kate B. Henriksen

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratus Properties Inc. (NASDAQ: STRS) announced today the appointment of Kate B. Henriksen to its Board of Directors. Ms. Henriksen will serve as an independent Class III director, effective immediately, and will be up for election to the Board at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

William H. Armstrong III, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Stratus, stated, “We are pleased that Kate Henriksen has joined our Board, bringing a deep understanding of real estate investing and real estate investment trust (REIT) operations. She currently serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer of the NYSE-traded REIT RLJ Lodging Trust where she has actively managed RLJ’s capital recycling program and overseen the underwriting on $8.0 billion of transactions, including RLJ’s merger with FelCor Lodging Trust in 2017. Ms. Henriksen is certainly well-positioned to help guide Stratus’ strategic direction.”

Ms. Henriksen will serve as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee. Following the appointment of Ms. Henriksen, Stratus’ Board of Directors comprises seven members, including six independent directors. Ms. Henriksen’s appointment, along with the recent appointment of Mr. Neville L. Rhone, Jr., are part of Stratus’ previously announced comprehensive review of Board composition. The review included an evaluation of, and interviews with, candidates suggested by a Stratus investor, Oasis Management Company.

Mr. Armstrong continued, “Ms. Henriksen’s extensive experience in the areas of real estate investing, asset management, REIT operations, investor relations, and executive leadership makes her, along with Mr. Rhone, the most value-added candidates we met during our process. The directors believe Ms. Henriksen and Mr. Rhone will greatly complement our Board's existing skills and expertise and we look forward to working with them both, as they bring additional perspectives and diverse points of view to our Board.”

Ms. Henriksen stated, “I am thrilled to join Stratus’ Board of Directors. I am passionate about real estate investing and engagement with real estate investors and know what it takes to develop and implement successful strategies that maximize shareholder value. I look forward to working with Stratus’ management team and other directors in guiding the company through the pandemic and beyond.”

About Kate B. Henriksen

Kate B. Henriksen, age 46, serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer of RLJ Lodging Trust (“RLJ”), a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns primarily premium-branded, high-margin, focused-service and compact full-service hotels, where she oversees RLJ’s acquisition and disposition activities and helps develop and implement RLJ’s strategy. From 2007 to February 2019, she served as Senior Vice President Investment & Portfolio Analysis of RLJ, responsible for managing the underwriting process on RLJ’s potential hotel investments and for asset management of the portfolio on a strategic level. Since joining RLJ, Ms. Henriksen has overseen the underwriting on completed transactions totaling $8.0 billion, including the merger with FelCor Lodging Trust in 2017. She has also been actively involved in RLJ’s capital recycling program, marketing for sale approximately $3.5 billion in sold assets. She previously was responsible for overseeing RLJ’s portfolio management function, which included tracking the performance of the company’s investment portfolios, assisting with capital raising efforts and managing relationships with investors in RLJ’s investment funds. Prior to joining RLJ in 2002, Ms. Henriksen was Director of Development Planning and Feasibility at Marriott International.

Ms. Henriksen received her B.S. from Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration, with a concentration in real estate and property asset management.

About Stratus Properties Inc.

Stratus is a diversified real estate company engaged primarily in the acquisition, entitlement, development, management, operation and sale of commercial and multi-family and single-family residential real estate properties, and the operation of hotel and entertainment businesses located in the Austin, Texas area and other select, fast-growing markets in Texas.

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