(b)(c) CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust, Inc. (“CorEnergy” or the “Company”) announced that, effective December 20, 2019, Ms. Kristin Leitze, age 38, was appointed to serve as the Chief Accounting Officer of CorEnergy. She has 15 years of experience in the accounting profession. Ms. Leitze has served as Controller of the Company since May 2017. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Leitze was the Director of SEC Reporting at CVR Energy and a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ms. Leitze earned a B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting from William Jewell College and a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Missouri Kansas City, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
There is no arrangement or understanding between Ms. Leitze and any other person to which she was appointed as an officer of the Company. There are also no family relationships between Ms. Leitze and any director or executive officer of the Company.
The Company’s officers are not employees of the Company and do not receive direct cash compensation for services rendered to CorEnergy. Rather, they are employees of Corridor InfraTrust Management, LLC, which is paid as CorEnergy’s external manager (“Corridor”). Outside of the fees and compensation paid to Corridor by the Company, Ms. Leitze does not have any direct or indirect material interests in any transaction with the Company or in any currently proposed transaction to which the Company is a party.
Outgoing Interim Chief Accounting Officer, Rebecca M. Sandring, will continue to utilize her real estate investment trust tax and structuring expertise on business development initiatives in her role as Executive Vice President of CorEnergy, in addition to her continuing responsibilities as Secretary and Treasurer of the Company.
About CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust, Inc. (NYSE:CORR)
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust, Inc. is focused on acquiring and financing midstream and downstream real estate assets within the United States energy infrastructure sector and concurrently entering into long-term triple-net participating leases with energy companies. The Company also provides other types of capital, including loans secured by energy infrastructure assets. The Company owns assets, such as pipelines, storage terminals, and transmission and distribution assets. It assets include Grand Isle Gathering System, which is a subsea, crude oil pipeline system in the Gulf of Mexico; Pinedale Liquids Gathering System, which consists of approximately 150 miles of pipelines; Portland Terminal Facility, which is a rail and marine facility property; MoGas Pipeline System, which delivers natural gas to both investor-owned and municipal local distribution systems, and Omega Pipeline, which provides natural gas marketing services.
