National Storage Affiliates Trust

Board of Trustees

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Tamara Fischer

Executive Chair of the Board of Trustees

Tamara D. Fischer serves as Executive Chair of the Board of Trustees. She served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from 2020 to 2023 and served as Chief Financial Officer from inception in 2013 to 2020.

Before joining NSA, Tamara served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vintage Wine Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust focused on assets in the U.S. wine industry, from 2004 to 2008. She continued to serve Vintage Wine Trust as a consultant through its dissolution in 2010 and served in various other consulting positions until becoming involved with NSA. From 1993 to 2003, Tamara served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chateau Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CPJ), one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the manufactured home community sector. She remained at Chateau through its sale in 2003. Prior to joining Chateau, she served as a member of the audit staff at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).

Tamara is a member of the Executive Board of Governors for Nareit and serves as Chairman of the national Self Storage Association.

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