Effective January 10, 2019, the Board of Trustees of EPR Properties increased the size of the Board from seven to eight members and elected James B. Connor as an independent trustee to fill the vacancy resulting from the increase in the size of the Board. Mr. Connor will serve until the 2019 annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. The Board also appointed Mr. Connor to serve as a member of the Audit Committee, Nominating/Company Governance Committee and Compensation and Human Capital Committee. Mr. Connor serves as head of the company’s Executive Committee, overseeing the strategic direction of the company and its Investment Committee, with responsibility for approving major capital transactions. Mr. Connor is a member of the Board of Governors for NAREIT, the Real Estate Roundtable and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR). He is also on the Advisory Board of the Marshall Bennett Institute for Advanced Real Estate Studies at Roosevelt University.