Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation announced that effective August 10, 2022, Barry Berlin, 62, an Executive Vice President of the Company and the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Company's lending division, will assume the additional roles of Secretary of the Company. Nathan DeBacker, the prior Secretary of the Company, will focus on other responsibilities within CIM Group, the manager of the Company (including continuing as the Chief Financial officer of CIM Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. Mr. Berlin has been the Executive Vice President of the Company since October 2008 and was Chief Financial Officer of the Company's predecessor from June 1993 to March 2014. He has been Chief Financial Officer of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary lending business since 1992 and has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of that business since 2020.

In addition, Mr. Berlin has served in various finance and accounting roles within CIM Group and its affiliates since 2017 and is currently a Managing Director of CIM Group, Chief Financial Officer of CIM Real Assets & Credit Fund, a closed-ended interval fund advised by an affiliate of CIM Group that is registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and Chief Financial Officer of CIM Capital, LLC, the Company's operator and an investment adviser registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Mr. Berlin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Florida and is a certified public accountant. Mr. Berlin began his career in public accounting.