Lauren Brust Moss Named Senior Vice President - Chief Sustainability Officer

NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) announced today the appointment of Lauren Brust Moss as the Company’s Senior Vice President – Chief Sustainability Officer.

Ms. Moss has more than 20 years of experience managing sustainability, energy and capital improvements for large-scale buildings and portfolios, and is recognized as an industry thought leader and advocate on green policy, regulation and compliance. Prior to joining Vornado, Ms. Moss was Senior Vice President at Adai, the administrator of the Fitwel certification program, and previously worked in the sustainability practices at engineering firms NORESCO and Steven Winter Associates.

Ms. Moss is a member of the Board of NESEA (Northeast Sustainable Energy Association) and is the Executive Vice President of the New York Energy Consumers Council. She earned an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Urban Planning from New York University.

Vornado’s Board and senior management is committed to Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) among its top priorities. Vornado has received multiple awards recognizing its continued industry leadership in sustainability including the NAREIT Leader in the Light, an 11-time winner; the 2021 NAREIT Leadership Personified Award; ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year with Sustained Excellence, 7 times with this distinction; and the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark “Green Star” Ranking, 9^th year in a row, ranking #2 out of 94 publicly traded companies in the Americas, with an “A” grade for the Company’s public disclosure.

Vornado Realty Trust is a fully-integrated equity real estate investment trust.

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Certain statements contained herein may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For a discussion of factors that could materially affect the outcome of our forward-looking statements and our future results and financial condition, see “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Such factors include, among others, risks associated with the performance of the Company’s properties and general competitive factors. Currently, one of the most significant factors is the ongoing adverse effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, operating performance and the effect it has had and may continue to have on our tenants, the global, national, regional and local economies and financial markets and the real estate market in general. The extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to depend on future developments, including the duration of the pandemic, current and future variants, the efficacy and durability of vaccines against the variants and the potential for increased government restrictions, which continue to be uncertain at this time but that impact could be material. Moreover, you are cautioned that the COVID-19 pandemic will heighten many of the risks identified in "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.

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