Stratus Properties Inc. announced the appointments of James E. Joseph and John G. Wenker to its Board of Directors. The size of the Board has been expanded from four to six directors. Mr. Joseph will serve as a Class I director and will be up for re-election to the Board in 2017.

Mr. Wenker will serve as a Class II director and will be up for re-election to the Board in 2018. James E. Joseph is an experienced business leader with over 25 years of experience in the consumer products, hospitality and entertainment industries, including experience as a chief executive officer. He currently serves as Dean of the Madden School of Business at Le Moyne College, a position he has held since 2014.

Mr. Joseph previously served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Oneida Ltd. He joined Oneida in 1988 and served in a variety of positions, including Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Oneida International and Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, until being named President in 2006. Mr. Joseph was named Chief Executive Officer in 2007, a position he held until Oneida was acquired in 2012. John G. Wenker has over four decades of experience in public policy, urban planning, real estate finance and valuation, and portfolio management.

He currently serves as Managing Director, Head of Real Assets for Nuveen Asset Management, LLC and as Vice President of Diversified Real Asset Income Fund. In 1992, Mr. Wenker joined Piper Jaffray Companies as a portfolio manager for four real estate debt closed-end funds and took over management of the firm's equity Real Estate Securities Strategy in 1999. He previously served in a number of real estate-related roles in the finance departments for the city of St.

Paul, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Community Development Agency, as a mortgage banker at Norwest Mortgage and as a public finance investment banker at Miller & Schroeder Financial.