Mr. Johnson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust. He has spent approximately 40 years in the real estate industry and previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust since September 1996. Mr. Johnson has extensive experience in real estate and corporate finance, property management, leasing, real estate valuation and property development.

Barbara Trenholm is a professor emerita at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and holds an ICD.D with the Institute of Corporate Directors and a FCPA, FCA with CPA New Brunswick.

Ms. Trenholm is currently a member of the NB Power board of directors and the International Development Research Centre board of governors. She is a past board member of AECL and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (now known as CPA Canada), past-president of the New Brunswick Institute of Chartered Accountants (now known as CPA New Brunswick), and past acting dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at UNB. In addition, she has chaired or served as a member of a number of other international, national, regional, and local boards and committees.

Jane Marshall has more than 30 years of experience in real estate management, particularly for food and retail companies. Jane is a Trustee of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust and is Chair of its Investment Committee. Most recently, Jane was the CEO of GoodLeaf Farms, where she led the construction and development of the company’s flagship automated vertical farm and facilitated the company’s minority stake sale to McCain Foods. Previously, Jane served as Chief Operating Officer of Choice Properties REIT, a publicly traded REIT, majority owned by Loblaw Companies Ltd. and she played a key role in its IPO. Jane also served as Executive Vice-President of Real Estate & Business Strategies for Loblaw Properties and was responsible for the acquisition, development, construction and management of its portfolio of more than 65 million square feet of owned retail, warehouse and office space as well as all its leased locations. Ms. Marshall was the leading executive in charge of Loblaws’ acquisition of T&T Supermarkets in 2009 and later, other businesses that now form the core of its ethnic food retailing business. She also led the purchase and comprehensive joint redevelopment of Maple Leaf Gardens (MLG) with Ryerson University in 2011-12, culminating in world class facilities for both. MLG is now the inspiration behind the current conventional store network. Ms. Marshall holds the ICD.D designation of the Institute of Corporate Directors and has a Bachelor of Arts degree focusing on Geography and Economics from the University of Toronto. She is also a volunteer member of the Leadership Council for Scale Up Ventures Ontario as well as an investor/advisor.