President and Chief Investment Officer

George "Chip" Stelljes III

Mr. Stelljes serves as President and Chief Investment Officer of Gladstone Commercial Corporation. He joined The Gladstone Companies as a Director in August 2001. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Stelljes was a Managing member of Camden Partners and Cahill Warnock & Company, private equity firms which finance public growth companies in the education, healthcare and business services sectors. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Stelljes was a Managing Director and Partner of Columbia Capital, a venture capital firm focused on investments in communications and information technology. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Stelljes held various positions including Executive Vice President and Principal with Allied Capital Corporation and its affiliates, where he served on its Investment Committee. Mr. Stelljes currently serves as a General Partner and Investment Committee member of Patriot Capital, a private equity fund, and he is a member of the board of directors of Intrepid Capital, an investment firm. He is a former Board member and Regional President of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. Mr. Stelljes holds an MBA degree from the University of Virginia and a BA from Vanderbilt University.

The board of directors welcomes communications from the Company's stockholders. All communications should be sent directly to the Investor Relations Department. Upon receipt of stockholder correspondence, the Investor Relations Manager will review such correspondence with the Chairman of the Board. On a monthly basis those letters deemed to be of a serious nature by the Chairman of the Board and the Investor Relations Manager will be forwarded to the Chairman of the Ethics Committee for review and resolution, or brought before the full Board for review and resolution. Stockholders may send communications to the Board of Directors, through the Investor Relations Department to the following address: The Board of Directors of Gladstone Commercial Corporation Attn: Investor Relations Manager 1521 Westbranch Drive, Suite 200 McLean, VA 22102