Diane M. Morefield

Diane Morefield is a financial and operating executive with over 35 years of experience in Chief Financial Officer and corporate executive roles, primarily of publicly traded real estate companies (REITs). She has successfully led all aspects of finance organizations and has extensive experience in M&A, having been involved with multiple acquisitions and divestitures over the course of her career. Ms. Morefield’s career also includes public accounting, consulting and commercial banking.

She currently serves on the boards of two S&P 500 companies: Copart (NASDAQ: CPRT) where she is Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit Committee; and UDR (NYSE: UDR) where she serves on the Audit and Governance committees. She also serves on the board and is Audit Chair of Link Logistics Real Estate, a Blackstone portfolio company. In addition, she served six years on the board of Spirit Realty (NYSE: SRC) and as their Audit Chair. She has served on several other advisory and non-public boards.

Ms. Morefield retired at year-end 2020 as EVP and Chief Financial officer of CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a publicly traded global data center REIT with revenue over $1 billion and a total enterprise value in excess of $12 billion. During her tenure, she raised in excess of $13 billion of capital in numerous capital markets transactions and achieved an investment grade bond rating for the company. She served on the executive leadership team that set strategy and oversaw the global expansion.

Prior to CyrusOne, Diane served as EVP & CFO of Strategic Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: BEE), a publicly traded hotel REIT that was sold to the Blackstone Group in 2015. She spent 12 years at Equity Office, the largest publicly traded REIT at that time, and Equity International, a private equity company controlled by Sam Zell. She was CFO of Equity International and her roles at Equity Office included SVP operations with P&L responsibility for the Midwest region, and SVP – Investor Relations prior to her operating role. Previously she worked at Barclays Bank as a real estate banker, and started her career in public accounting.

Diane earned her BS in Accountancy from the University of Illinois and is a CPA. She has her MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.