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John J. Degnan, Chairman Governance John J. Degnan was nominated to the Board of Board of Commissioners Commissioners by Governor and was confirmed by the State Senate on July 10, 2014. PA Leadership He was elected Chairman of the Board on July 23, 2014.

Mr. Degnan retired as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating By-Laws Officer on December 31, 2010, from The Chubb . He currently serves as senior advisor to the Transparency in Governance CEO of The Chubb Corporation. Mr. Degnan served as Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer of The Chubb Board Committee Charters Corporation since December 2002 and Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer from June 2008 through December 2010. He served as Commitment to Reform Chief Ethics Officer from 2005. He has held various titles since joining Chubb & Son a of Federal Insurance Company in 1990 as a Senior Vice President Financial Information and Counsel. In September 1996, he was elected President of The Chubb Corporation and also became President of Chubb & Son a division of Federal Insurance Company in 1998. Board Meeting Information Mr. Degnan served on the boards of the American Institute for Chartered Property Freedom of Information Casualty Underwriters; the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science, St. John’s University and continues to serve as a trustee for St. Benedict’s Transparency Preparatory School, Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Barnabas Health. He is also member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Judicial appointment. Recently, he has been appointed to the President’s Federal Advisory Council on Insurance.

After working as a law secretary for the late New Jersey Supreme Court Justice John Francis, Mr. Degnan joined the Newark, NJ law firm of Clapp & Eisenberg. In 1974, he was appointed assistant counsel to Brendan T. Byrne, , becoming Chief Counsel to the Governor in 1977. He was appointed Attorney General of the State of New Jersey in 1978 and served until 1981 when he became a senior partner with Shanley & Fisher, specializing in administrative law.

Mr. Degnan graduated from Saint Vincent’s College magna cum laude in 1966 and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1969. He received honorary degrees from the College of St. Elizabeth in 1978 and from in 1979.

Committee Assignments: To be determined.

Scott H. Rechler, Vice-Chairman

Scott Rechler was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in June 2011 by Governor Cuomo. Mr. Rechler is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of RXR Realty LLC (“RXR”), a multi-billion dollar private real estate company which was formed subsequent to the sale of Reckson Associates Realty Corp (“Reckson”) to SL Green in January 2007, one of the largest public Real Estate management buyouts in REIT history.

Mr. Rechler's vision and leadership guided Reckson where he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board during its years of dynamic growth throughout New York , , New Jersey, Westchester and , overseeing in excess of $6 billion in acquisitions and developments and managing over 20 million square feet of commercial property in New York's Tri-State Area. Mr. Rechler's real estate acumen and entrepreneurial spirit delivered stellar returns to investors including a 715% total return to the Reckson shareholders.

Mr. Rechler was at Reckson from 1989 until January 2007 and during his tenure served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and member of Reckson's Board of Directors since its formation, as well as the Chairman of the Board's Executive Committee. Mr. Rechler was the architect of Reckson's successful IPO in 1995.

Since its formation in January 2007, Mr. Rechler has led RXR in becoming one of the New York Tri-State 's leading real estate companies with approximately $3.5 billion of assets under management invested in a portfolio of 105 operating properties encompassing 15.0 million square feet.

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Mr. Rechler is actively involved with the Real Estate Roundtable, for which he is a member of the Board of Directors and Co-Chair of its Political Action Committee.

Mr. Rechler prides himself on enhancing the communities where RXR operates. As such, Mr. Rechler serves as a Board member of the Association for a Better Long Island, Board member of the Association for a Better New York, member of the Hofstra Honors College Advisory Committee, as well as the NYU Real Estate Institute Advisory Committee. In addition, Mr. Rechler serves as the Co-President of the Board of Trustees for Friends Academy and serves on the Board of many of the regions top cultural institutions such as the Film Institute and the Long Island Children's Museum where he serves as its co-Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Rechler is a graduate of Clark University. He also earned a Masters of Science degree in Real Estate at the New York University Schack Institute.

Committee Assignments: Operations (Vice-Chair), Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management (Chair), Special Oversight Committee (Chair).

Richard H. Bagger

Richard H. Bagger was nominated to the Board of Commissioners by Governor Chris Christie. He was confirmed by the New Jersey State Senate on June 28, 2012. Mr. Bagger is Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Strategic Market Access for Celgene Corporation, a multinational biopharmaceutical company focusing on the discovery, development and commercialization of treatments for cancer and severe, immune-inflammatory conditions. Rich is responsible for advancing patient access to Celgene therapies and driving recognition of the value of Celgene innovation through government relations, communications, patient advocacy and market access policy activities around the world.

Mr. Bagger most recently served for two years as Chief of Staff for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, responsible for managing implementation of the Governor’s policy agenda and priorities.

Previously, Rich was employed by Inc for more than 16 years in a series of positions of increasing responsibility within the Company’s U.S. Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Affairs and Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Divisions. From 2006 to 2009, he served on Pfizer’s senior most management team as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Public Affairs and Policy.

Prior to joining Pfizer in 1993, Mr. Bagger was Assistant General Counsel of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, and before that practiced law with McCarter & English.

Mr. Bagger’s record of public service includes ten years in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and was elected by his colleagues to be Majority Conference Leader. In 2001, he was elected to the and serviced there until 2002. Before his election to the , he was a Councilman and Mayor of Westfield, New Jersey.

Richard Bagger has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, British American Business, the APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Business Council of New York State, the Healthcare Institute of New Jersey, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the United Hospital Fund of New York , the American Council of Young Political Leaders, the Citizens Budget Commission of New York, the Overlook Hospital Foundation and the New Jersey Historical Society.

He received an A.B. degree from ’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a J.D. degree from Law School.

Committee Assignments: Finance (Chair); Audit; Special Oversight Committee

George R. Laufenberg, CEBS

George R. Laufenberg was nominated to the Board of Commissioners by Governor Chris Christie. He was confirmed by the New Jersey State Senate on July 10, 2014.

Mr. Laufenberg is administrative manager of the New Jersey Carpenters Funds. The five funds total in excess of $2 billion in assets and provide apprenticeship and training, health, pension, annuity and vacation benefits to more than 15,000 union members and their families and 7,000 retirees. In addition to his duties with the carpenters union, he is chairman of the New Jersey Alliance for Action, a 700- member labor, business and governmental coalition which seeks to resolve infrastructure issues affecting the quality of life in New Jersey. Mr. Laufenberg also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, the Institute for Nursing, the Board of Trustees of the Independent College Fund and as vice-chairman of the State Carpenters Funds Board of Trustees. He is also a past chairman of the board of in Long Branch, NJ and continues to serve on the hospital’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Laufenberg was appointed by former Governor to serve on a task force evaluating the affordability and accessibility of health care in New

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Jersey, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New Jersey, the New Jersey Hospital Rate Setting Commission, and the Jersey Coast Health Planning Council. He has served on various committees for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. He received a B.A. degree in economics from Susquehanna University and has completed financial management courses at the Wharton School, University of . Mr. Laufenberg holds the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation from the International Foundation, and currently serves on its Board of Directors and as a member of the Foundation’s Executive Committee.

Committee Assignments: To be determined.

Kenneth Lipper

Kenneth Lipper was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in June 2013 by Governor Cuomo. From 1987 to present, Mr. Lipper has been the Chairman of Lipper & Co LLC, an investment management and investment banking firm in .

From 2004 to 2010, Mr. Lipper was the Executive Vice President and Member of the Management Committee and Chairman of the Acquisitions Committee at a leading global real estate firm, Cushman & Wakefield. From 1982 to 1985, he served as Deputy Mayor to under Mayor Ed Koch. Previously, he was a General Partner and Managing Director at Salomon Brothers and a General Partner at .

Mr. Lipper serves on the Board of Directors of Case New Holland (CNH) Global NV, where he is currently a member of the Compensation and Governance Committee and was previously the Chairman of its Audit Committee. He is Chairman of the Board of Lippmann Enterprises LLC, a cosmetics company, and on the Advisory Board of Group FMG, a software company.

In addition, Mr. Lipper was previously an adjunct professor at ’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, where he taught “The Economic Resources and Objectives of US Foreign Policy.”

Mr. Lipper is also a creative author and producer and has been the recipient of an Academy Award as producer of The Last Days. He wrote the novel “” and was chief technical advisor on the film; he wrote the novel and screenplay City Hall and was producer of the film; he was producer of the play and film The Winter Guest. He is a co-publisher of the Lipper/Viking Penguin, “Penguin Lives” biography series.

Mr. Lipper has achieved a B.A. from Columbia University, J.D. from Harvard Law School and Master of Civil Law, New York University/Faculty of Law & Economics, Paris.

Committee Assignments: Finance; Operations

Jeffrey H. Lynford

Jeffrey H. Lynford was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in June 2011 by Governor Cuomo and reappointed in 2013.

Mr. Lynford, currently serves as President and CEO of Educational Housing Services, Inc. the largest non-profit provider of safe and affordable dormitory residences for college students in New York City. He was the co-founder of the Wellsford group of public and private real estate companies. Over an 18 year period he served as the Chairman of three exchange-listed : Wellsford Residential Property Trust (NYSE: an investment grade multi-family REIT from 1992 to 1997), Wellsford Real Properties, Inc. (AMEX: a real estate merchant banking and development firm from 1997 to 2007), and Reis, Inc. (NASDAQ: real estate analytics and information firm from 2007 to 2010). Previously, he held senior investment banking positions on Wall Street.

Mr. Lynford has served as a trustee/director on the boards of S.E.C. reporting corporations and mutual funds as well as non-profit organizations. He is an expert on capital formation, corporate governance “best practices,” and has extensive experience serving on many audit, finance, investment and executive board committees.

Mr. Lynford has held two additional gubernatorial appointments previously (the New York State Council on the Arts and the Trust for Governors Island) and currently serves on the board of two institutions of higher education (NYU and Polytechnic Institute of NYU). He is a trustee emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Citizens Budget Commission, Caramoor International Center for Music and the Arts, and a former ex officio trustee of the Lower Eastside Tenement Museum.

Mr. Lynford holds three university degrees, including a BA in history from SUNY at Buffalo, a Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.

Committee Assignments: Audit; Finance (Vice Chair); Special Oversight Committee

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Jeffrey A. Moerdler

Jeffrey A. Moerdler was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in April 2010 by Governor . Mr. Moerdler is a Member of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. where he is the New York office Section Head for the Real Estate and Communications Sections and is a member of the Environmental Section. His real estate practice is both national and local and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases, counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, development and renovation of property, advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans, and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation.

Mr. Moerdler has been a general commercial real estate attorney for almost thirty years. He has represented large national companies, particularly in the high-tech, telecommunications, , health care, supermarket and oil and gas sectors, as well representing numerous smaller local clients. During the past twenty years, he has developed a unique specialty practice in the intersection of real estate and communications issues.

Mr. Moerdler is a member of the Executive Committee of the Section of the New York State tag">Bar Association. Previously, he has served in numerous governmental positions, including representative of the President Pro Tem of the New York State Senate on the New York State Financial Control Board; Member of the New York State Banking Board; Member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division, First Department, of the New York ; Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York; and Assistant to the Deputy President of the Borough of Manhattan.

Mr. Moerdler is admitted to practice in the States of New York, and , in the District of Columbia, and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He attended the Horace Mann School and was awarded his B.A. by Columbia College of Columbia University and his J.D. by the New York University School of Law.

Mr. Moerdler has written numerous articles on communications and real estate subjects. He is regularly quoted in , The Wall Street Journal, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly and other publications. In recognition of his professional achievement, in 2002 he was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and every year commencing with 2006 he has been a New York Super Lawyer in The New York Times.

Committee Assignments: Audit (Vice-Chair), Governance and Ethics, Security (Vice- Chair), Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management.

Raymond M. Pocino

Raymond Pocino was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in June 2002 by Governor McGreevey. For more than 50 years, Mr. Pocino has been a member of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). He was appointed regional manager of LIUNA's Eastern Region Office in April 1995 and later won election as a LIUNA Vice President in September 1996. He was re-elected to additional five-year terms in 2001 and again in 2006. In his dual positions as Vice President and Eastern Regional Manager, Mr. Pocino directs and oversees activities that affect the working lives of some 40,000 laborers in the New Jersey, , New York City and Long Island geographical area. He is also President Emeritus of Construction & General Laborers Local 172 in Trenton, NJ. Mr. Pocino is serving his fifth term as a commissioner of the Authority, one term as chairman. Mr. Pocino also serves as Vice Present of the NJ State AFL-CIO, Vice Chair of Choose New Jersey, and serves as a trustee of both the NJ Alliance for Action and New Jersey SEED.

Committee Assignments: Finance; Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management; Security; Special Oversight Committee

Rossana Rosado

Rossana Rosado was confirmed by the New York State Senate as a Commissioner on the Board of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on June 6, 2012. Ms. Rosado has spent 19 of her twenty seven years in the New York media at El Diario La Prensa. She has been Publisher and CEO since 1999, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the country where she is responsible for over $22 million in annual revenue.

Prior to becoming publisher Ms. Rosado was Editor in Chief of the paper where she also worked as a journalist in the early 80's. She was the first woman to hold that position at the now 97-year old paper.

During her media career, Ms. Rosado has been a reporter at El Diario-La Prensa where she covered , City Hall, and wrote a weekly column. In 1988, she joined WPIX, Inc. as a producer of Public Affairs programming. She was later

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promoted to Public Service Director, responsible for the creation and placement of hundreds of Public Service Announcements on the air. She won an Emmy in 1992 for the production of a series of PSA's featuring organization which helped children.

In 1992 she was appointed Vice President for Public Affairs at the Health & Hospitals Corporation for the City of New York. She spent three years working for both the Dinkins and then Giuliani administration in the same post.

Her prior experience includes positions at WCBS-AM and FM radio, and WNYC-TV 31.

Her many awards include an Emmy, a STAR award from the NY Women's Agenda, and a Peabody Award for Journalism. She served on Mayor Bloomberg's transition team in 2001 and as one of six co-chairs for Governor Eliot Spitzer's transition team in 2006.

She currently serves on the board of the New York Women's Foundation, The Innocence Project, 100 Hispanic Women of Westchester, Repertorio Español and co chairs a capital committee for the Caribbean Cultural Center. She's also an advisor to The Fortune Society and she served on Governor Paterson's Task Force on Juvenile Justice from 2008 – 2009.

She received her B.A. in Journalism from in White Plains, New York.

Committee Assignments: Governance and Ethics, Security.

William “Pat” Schuber, Esq., BA, JD

William “Pat” Schuber joined the Board in July 2011. He was appointed to the Board by Governor Christie. Mr. Schuber served as The Executive of Bergen County for 12 years, 9 years as a member of the New Jersey State Assembly and Mayor of the Borough of Bogota for 4 years. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Administrative Science, Petrocelli College, Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a faculty member in the Master of Administrative Science (MAS), Master of Science in Homeland Security (MSHS), Master of Sports Administration (MSA) and Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies (BAIS). His courses include Leadership, Government, Homeland Security, Law, Ethics and Communication. He is a past Adjunct Professor in Business Law at Montclair University and Seton Hall University. He is an Instructor in the Certified Public Manager Course of Studies (CPM) and the Police Executive Leadership Course sponsored by the New Jersey Association Chiefs of Police and the (NJSP).

Mr. Schuber has conducted Leadership Staff Ride Seminars at the Battlefields of Gettysburg, Antietam, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth Courthouse, Brandywine and Normandy, France. He lectures frequently on military history, historical leadership, homeland security, ethics, communication and conflict resolution to numerous civic groups. He is the Seminar Director for the Bergen Leads Program sponsored by the Volunteer Center of Bergen County. This program trains future leaders in business, non-profit and government. He has written several scholarly articles and co- authored books on topics of History, Leadership and Homeland Security. Mr. Schuber served as a Captain in the US Army Reserve (Retired).

Mr. Schuber is a graduate of Fordham University with a BA and received his JD at Fordham University School of Law. He is currently serving Of Counsel to the law firm of Albert Wunsch III of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Committee Assignments: Governance and Ethics (Chair); Security (Chair); Finance

David S. Steiner

David S. Steiner was appointed to the Board of Commissioners by Governor McGreevey in January 2003. Mr. Steiner is currently the Chairman of Steiner Equities Group, LLC a real estate development firm specializing in industrial office parks and commercial facilities in New Jersey and 14 other states and based in Roseland, New Jersey. Mr. Steiner recently built Steiner Studios, an unprecedented 280,000 square foot, $118 million state-of- the-art film and television production facility, situated on a 15- acre site at the historic Navy Yard. Mr. Steiner has worked with federal agencies such as the EPA and with Congressional committees and organized lobbying programs relating to land use regulation and industrial development. He is highly active in public service. Previously he served as vice president of the Institute for Far East Policy. Mr. Steiner graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering.

Committee Assignments: Audit (Chair), Operations, Capital Planning, Execution and Asset Management.

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