Barbara B. Lang

Director

Managing Principal & Chief Executive Officer of Lang Strategies, LLC, a business consulting firm, located in Washington, D.C. Ms. Lang served as president and Chief Executive Officer of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce from 2002 to 2014 and prior to joining the Chamber was the Vice President of Corporate Services and Chief Procurement Officer for Fannie Mae. Ms. Lang also had a long career with IBM where she served in several management positions in finance, administration and product forecasting. She has received numerous awards and accolades throughout her career, including being twice named one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 150 Most Powerful People in the Washington, D.C. region, Business Leader of the Year by the District of Columbia Building Industry Association and a Lifetime Legacy Award from Washington Business Journal. Ms. Lang also served on the board of Cardinal Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: CFNL) from 2014 to 2017 and currently serves on the board of the Sibley Hospital Foundation, Chair of Conservation Nation and as a board member of Pyxera Global. Ms. Lang is the author of Madame President: Leadership Lessons from the Top of the Ladder, a book on leadership skills, particularly focused upon the challenges of race and gender facing African Americans and women in corporate and governmental America.

Ms. Lang brings to the board a broad personal network of corporate and governmental contacts in one of the Company’s key operating markets. In addition, she has extensive senior management expertise with both private corporations and governmental agencies. Ms. Lang’s diverse business, financial, and governance expertise, as well as her life experience breaking leadership “glass ceilings” for women and minorities, make her highly qualified to serve as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which also oversees the Company’s ESG Activities, and a member of the Compensation Committee. The Company’s most recent annual ESG report is available on the Company’s website, www.piedmontreit.com.