Zuma Capital Management, LLC, which owns approximately 7.7% of the
outstanding shares of the Series A Common Stock of Presidio
Property Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQFT) (“Presidio” or the “Company”),
today issued a public letter to the Company’s stockholders
announcing its nomination of five highly qualified, independent
candidates; Reuben Berman, Stefani Carter, Vito Garfi, Brent
Morrison and Elena Piliptchak, for election to the Company’s Board
of Directors at the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Learn more about Zuma Capital Management, LLC’s
director candidates by visiting www.SavePresidio.com, where
stockholders can download a copy of our letter and sign up for
future updates on Zuma Capital Management’s campaign for boardroom
change.
The full text of the letter follows:
March 13, 2024
Dear Fellow Stockholders,
Zuma Capital Management, LLC (together with its
affiliates and the participants named herein, “Zuma,” “our” or
“we”), is a significant stockholder group of Presidio Property
Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQFT) (“Presidio” or the “Company”), with
ownership of approximately 7.7% of the Company’s outstanding shares
of Series A Common Stock (the “Common Stock”).
Over the past six months, we have become a
significant independent stockholder group of Presidio, primarily
because we believe the Company’s assets are worth much more than is
reflected in its stock price. Our significant research into the
Company has led us to believe the value disconnect derives from the
CEO and Chairman of the Board Jack Heilbron’s external business
interests driving decision making at the Company and the Company’s
insular Board failing to uphold their duty to act in the best
interests of stockholders.
We have attempted to engage in good faith by
inquiring about the Company’s business interests with Mr.
Heilbron’s private investment advisory firm, Centurion Counsel,
Inc. (“Centurion”), which, as disclosed in Mr. Heilbron’s Schedule
13D filed on March 4, 2024, apparently holds shares of Common Stock
on behalf of various account holders.1 We believe the Company has
not fully disclosed its business relationships and arrangements
with Centurion. Rather than listening to the concerns of the
Company’s stockholders and engaging with us, the Board brushed us
aside and effectively asked us to trust that it will do the right
thing.
Our engagement with the Company convinced us
that significant change was needed to execute a turnaround so we
nominated a slate of highly qualified directors for election to the
Board. Again, rather than engage with us and in an act of
entrenchment and fear, the Board responded to our nomination by
approving long-term employment contracts for the Company’s
executive team, including Mr. Heilbron. We believe the compensation
terms of these agreements are egregious given the Company’s chronic
underperformance.
We believe the Board’s recent approval of
various long-term employment contracts with the Company’s
executives in response to legitimate stockholder feedback is just
the latest in a series of unfortunate examples of the Board
choosing to entrench its leadership rather than seeking to take the
necessary steps to improve as a Company. We do not believe it is
possible to justify the Board’s actions given the Company’s share
price underperformance, evidenced by its Total Shareholder Return
(“TSR”) of –24.09%2 since taking its Common Stock public and its
three year TSR of -23.00%.3
Our view is that the Board’s actions reflect
poor corporate governance and undermine your rights as
stockholders. We believe the Company should let stockholders decide
who they want to lead to the Company rather than permitting
executives to hide behind long term contracts finalized just months
before a critical stockholder meeting. The Company’s public
stockholders deserve better than leadership that runs the Company
like a small family owned business. Accordingly, we believe
significant change is required to the Board to re-build a company
that is focused on long-term initiatives to improve operating
performance and increase stockholder value.
We have nominated five highly qualified,
independent candidates for election to the Board, who have strong
experience in commercial real estate, corporate governance and
capital allocation. Our director candidates look forward to
engaging with Presidio’s stockholders about their constructive and
practical ideas for igniting a turnaround at the Company and
identifying its next generation of management to lead the Company
to a more prosperous future. If elected by Presidio’s stockholders,
our nominees intend to put the past in the rearview mirror and
support the type of collegial boardroom dialogue that is necessary
to unlock the full potential of Presidio. We look forward to
further communicating our ideas with our fellow stockholders in the
coming weeks.
Sincerely,
Brent Morrison
Zuma Capital Management’s Five
Nominees
Reuben Berman
Mr. Berman is a successful real estate investor with
significant experience buying and selling commercial real
estate.
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Currently serves as Founding Partner of Entrada Partners, a real
estate investment firm he founded in 2009 which comprises of a
portfolio of over $500 million of commercial properties
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Previously, Mr. Berman served as Assistant Vice President of
Acquisitions for Kor Realty Group LLC, a real estate company that
offers development, investment and management of lifestyle
properties
Stefani Carter
Ms. Carter is a successful attorney with significant
board and corporate governance experience.
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Serves as the Principal at Stefani Carter & Associates, LLC, a
consulting and legal services firm
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Previously, Ms. Carter served as a Shareholder at Ferguson Braswell
Fraser Kubasta, PC, a full-service business law firm
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Previously served as Senior Counsel at Estes Thorne & Carr
PLLC, a Dallas-based law firm, from November 2017 to October
2020
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Previously she served as an elected representative of Texas House
District 102 in the Texas House of Representatives between January
2011 and January 2015
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Currently serves as Lead Director, Chair of the Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee, and a Member of the Related Party
Transactions Committee of Braemar Hotels & Resorts
Inc.
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She has served on the board of Wheeler Real Estate Investment
Trust, Inc., a retail property focused real estate investment
trust, and has also served on the board Axos Financial, Inc.
(“Axos”), a diversified financial services company, serving as
Chair of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee and as a
member of the Compensation Committee of the board of director and
as member of the Asset/Liability Committee of the board of
directors of Axos Bank.
Vito Garfi
Mr. Garfi has significant capital markets and securities
trading experience.
- Currently serves as
a broker at Avatar Securities, LLC, a proprietary trading firm and
broker-dealer, specializing in supporting experienced prop
traders.
- Serves as Managing
Member of Cordoba Asset, LLC
Brent Morrison, CFA
Mr. Morrison has significant experience investing in
small-cap, real estate companies.
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Currently serves as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
President for Regional Health Properties, Inc. (“Regional Health”),
a self-managed real estate investment company that invests
primarily in real estate.
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Currently serves as the Managing Member for Zuma Capital
Management, LLC, an investment manager focused on opportunistic
investments specializing in underfollowed, smallcap companies.
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Previously served on the board of directors for iPass, Inc., which
provides global enterprises and telecommunications carriers with
cloud-based mobility management and Wi-Fi connectivity
services.
Elena Piliptchak
Ms. Piliptchak has significant experience investing in
public companies.
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Currently serves as Portfolio Manager for Ouray Capital Management,
LLC, a concentrated small-cap equity fund focused on investing in a
limited number of under-researched stocks.
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Previously, she served as a Senior Investment Professional for
Axial Capital Management LLC, a $1.5 billion long-short equity
“Tiger Cub” fund.
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Previously served as Portfolio Manager for Tiger Europe Management
LLC, a long-shorty equity “Tiger Cub” fund that she co-founded
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Previously served as Director for Tiger Europe Master Fund Ltd., a
European-focused “Tiger Cub” fund.
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Previously served as an Analyst for Highfields Capital Management
LP, an investment management fund.
Investor contact:
Brent Morrison, (310) 989-6705
CERTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
PARTICIPANTS
Zuma Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (“Zuma Capital Management”), together with the
other participants named herein, intend to file a preliminary proxy
statement and accompanying WHITE universal proxy card with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to be used to solicit
votes for the election of its slate of highly-qualified director
nominees at the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders of Presidio
Property Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”).
ZUMA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT STRONGLY ADVISES ALL
STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER
PROXY MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN
IMPORTANT INFORMATION. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO
CHARGE ON THE SEC'S WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV. IN ADDITION,
THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROXY SOLICITATION WILL PROVIDE COPIES OF
THE PROXY STATEMENT WITHOUT CHARGE, WHEN AVAILABLE, UPON
REQUEST.
The participants in the proxy solicitation are
anticipated to be Zuma Capital Management, ZCM Opportunities Fund,
LP (“ZCM Opportunities”), Samara Growth Fund, LP (“Samara Growth”),
Samara Select Fund, LP (“Samara Select”), Ouray Select, LP (“Ouray
Select”), Ouray Partners International LTD (“Ouray International”),
Ouray Fund Management, LLC (“Ouray Fund Management”), Ouray Capital
Management, LLC (“Ouray Capital Management”), Reuben Berman,
Stefani Carter, Vito Garfi, Brent Morrison, and Elena
Piliptchak.
As of the date hereof, ZCM Opportunities
directly beneficially owns 147,850 shares of common stock, par
value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”),
including 80,765 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise
of certain Series A Common Stock purchase warrants (the
“Warrants”). Zuma Capital Management, as the general partner and
investment manager of ZCM Opportunities and the separately managed
accounts (the “SMAs”), may be deemed to beneficially own the (i)
100 shares of Common Stock owned directly, (ii) 147,850 shares of
Common Stock owned directly by ZCM Opportunities, (iii) 30,076
shares of Common Stock held in a certain retirement account (the
“Retirement Account”), and (iv) 41,138 shares of Common Stock held
in the SMAs. Mr. Morrison, as the managing member of Zuma Capital
Management, may be deemed the beneficial owner of the (i) 32,147
shares of Common Stock owned directly, including 25,147 shares of
Common Stock underlying the Warrants, (ii) 147,850 shares of Common
Stock owned directly by ZCM Opportunities, (iii) 100 shares of
Common Stock owned directly by Zuma Capital Management, (iv) 30,076
shares of Common Stock held in the Retirement Account, and (v)
41,138 shares of Common Stock held in the SMAs. As of the date
hereof, Samara Growth directly owned 51,427 shares of Common Stock.
As of the date hereof, Samara Select directly owned 50,991 shares
of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, Ouray Select directly owned
76,475 shares of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, Ouray
International directly owned 30,556 shares of Common Stock. As the
general partner of each of Samara Growth, Samara Select and Ouray
Select, Ouray Fund Management may be deemed to beneficially own the
178,893 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned in the aggregate
by Samara Growth, Samara Select and Ouray Select. As the investment
manager of each of Samara Growth, Samara Select, Ouray Select and
Ouray International, Ouray Capital Management may be deemed to
beneficially own the 209,449 shares of Common Stock beneficially
owned in the aggregate by Samara Growth, Samara Select, Ouray
Select and Ouray International. As the managing member of each
Ouray Fund Management and Ouray Capital Management, Ms. Piliptchak
may be deemed to beneficially own the 209,449 shares of Common
Stock beneficially owned in the aggregate by Samara Growth, Samara
Select, Ouray Select and Ouray International and 11,800 shares of
Common Stock owned directly. As of the date hereof, Vito Garfi
directly owned 548,276 shares of Common Stock. As of the date
hereof, neither Mr. Berman nor Ms. Carter own any shares of Common
Stock.
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1 Based on a Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on March 4, 2024 by Jack K. Heilbron.2 Source:
Morningstar (as of March 12, 2024) and Zuma Capital Management
Internal Estimates. 3 Source: Morningstar (as of March 12, 2024)
and Zuma Capital Management Internal Estimates.
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