Whitestone REIT announced that on July 27, 2022, the Board of Trustees of Whitestone REIT to increase its size from five to six trustees and appointed Amy Shih-Hua Feng, to its Board and to its Audit Committee, effective July 27, 2022, and determined Ms. Feng qualifies as an “independent director” for purposes of the New York Stock Exchange listing standards. Ms. Feng currently serves as the Director of Investor Relations for Shopify Inc. Prior to her role at Shopify, Feng was a Managing Director at Joele Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, a top ranked leader in strategic, financial and crisis communications. During her tenure with the company, Feng advised executives and Boards on a wide range of issues of critical importance to shareholders and other stakeholders.

She has also served as an Executive Vice President with Abernathy MacGregor, a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst with JMP Securities, and an Equity Research Senior Analyst for Lehman Brothers. Ms. Feng earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Chemistry from Cornell University, a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Northwestern University. She also has served as a board member for the San Francisco chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute and currently serves as a board member on the Water Council of DigDeep.