 When shareholders elected us to the Mack-Cali Board nearly a year ago, we looked forward to working collaboratively with the incumbent Directors to make thoughtful, strategic decisions in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. Since then, despite our consistent efforts to serve as shareholder advocates, and offer new, truly independent perspectives on value creation, we have been excluded from strategic discussions and decision making. We were relegated to committee positions that were designed to be uninfluential, in a coordinated effort by CEO Michael J. DeMarco and lead independent director Alan Bernikow, to minimize our impact. Simply put, our views have been unwelcome and concerns we have raised were consistently ignored. 