– USA, TN – CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW), announced the appointments of Dawn Smith, Stacey Tank, and Nina Tran to its Board as independent Directors effective March 17, 2025, expanding the Board to fourteen directors, of whom thirteen are independent.
Additionally, Robert Dennis will not stand for re-election to the Board at the 2025 AGM.
About S. Dawn Smith
Dawn Smith has served as President of Cologix, Inc. since August 2018 and was formerly its President and COO. At Cologix, she is responsible for driving all aspects of design, construction, engineering, and operations of the firm’s extensive infrastructure of secure, hyperscale edge data center sites and solutions. Additionally, she is responsible for the IT, legal, HR, and procurement functions at Cologix. She previously served as EVP and CLO of McAfee, where she led the legal and government relations organization globally. Before McAfee, Ms. Smith was SVP and CLO at VMware. She previously served in legal advisory roles at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and as a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where she practiced for nearly a decade in corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, public company corporate governance, compliance, and venture capital transactions. Dawn Smith served in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program, which manages the design, construction, and operation of nuclear-powered ships and facilities. She currently serves on the board of directors of Health Catalyst, Inc.
Dawn Smith holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.B.A. from Providence College, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
About Stacey Tank
Stacey Tank serves as CEO of Bespoke Beauty Brands, a role she has held since September 2023. Additionally, she is a Board Member at Interior Logic Group, Inc., where she serves on the Audit and Compliance committees. Previously, she served as CTO of the Heineken Company and at The Home Depot. Her responsibilities included leading the multi-billion-dollar Home Depot Installation Services and Home Depot Measurement Services businesses. She also served as President of The Home Depot Foundation.
Stacey Tank is the Founder and CEO of Our Happy Place, a non-profit focused on childhood mental wellness.
Stacey Tank is a fellow at the Aspen Institute and the World Economic Forum and holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Management and Television-Radio-Film from Syracuse University.
About Nina A. Tran
Nina Tran serves as a board member of American Asset Trust, a publicly-traded real estate investment trust where she also serves on the Audit and Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee. She also serves as a director and is the audit committee chairperson of both Compass Datacenters and Catalyst Impact Fund.
Nina Tran is an advisor to Roofstock, Inc., a leading proptech platform for single-family rental investors. From March 2021 until December 2022, Ms. Tran served as CFO for Pacaso, a real estate technology company focused on second-home co-ownership. From 2016 to 2021, she was CFO at Veritas Investments, Inc., an owner and manager of mixed-use real estate properties. From 2013 to 2016, she served as CFOcer of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, a leading publicly-traded REIT that owns and operates single-family rental homes. Before joining Starwood Waypoint, Nina Tran spent 18 years at Prologis, Inc., the largest publicly-traded global industrial REIT. She served as SVP and CAO, and most recently as chief global process officer, where she helped lead the merger integration between AMB and Prologis. Before Prologis, Nina Tran was a senior associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers. From 2016 to 2024, she served on the board of directors and was the audit committee chairperson of Apartment Income REIT before the company was taken private. Nina Tran also previously served on the advisory board of the Asian Pacific Fund.
Nina Tran holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from California State University East Bay.
About CoreCivic
CoreCivic is a diversified government solutions company with the scale and experience needed to solve tough government challenges in flexible, cost-effective ways. We provide a broad range of solutions to government partners that serve the public good through high-quality corrections and detention management, a network of residential and non-residential alternatives to incarceration to help address America’s recidivism crisis, and government real estate solutions. We are the nation’s largest owner of partnership correctional, detentior, and residential reentry facilities, and we believe we are the largest private owner of real estate used by government agencies in the United States. We have been a flexible and dependable partner for the government for more than 40 years. Our employees are driven by a deep sense of service, high standards of professionalism, and a responsibility to help the government better the public good.
For more information: https://www.corecivic.com/
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