Executive Officers

Dinakar Singh, 52
Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Singh is the CEO of Axon Capital, a global investment firm, which he founded in 2005. Mr. Singh was previously a senior Partner at Goldman Sachs, where he was global co-head of the Principal Strategies Department, which was the firm’s highly profitable global equities proprietary trading and investment business. He was also a member of the Operating Committee, Partnership Committee, Risk Committee and Asia Management Committee. Mr. Singh became a partner in 1998, and at that time was the second youngest partner in Goldman Sachs history. Driven by his daughter Arya’s diagnosis with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (“SMA”), Mr. Singh established the SMA Foundation in 2003 to drive development of a treatment for SMA, which was the leading genetic cause of death in young children. Through over $100 million of strategic investments, the Foundation successfully facilitated or drove three transformative FDA-approved treatments, and helped establish SMA as a model for the potential to transform deadly rare diseases. Mr. Singh serves on the boards of the Columbia University Medical Center and New York Public Library, where he chairs the Investment Committee for the NYPL endowment. He also previously served as a member of the Yale Investment Committee, and Trustee of Rockefeller University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and served on the investment committees of both.

Jon Layman, 55 [Resigned 7/12/22]
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Director

Mr. Layman is a Partner at Prime Movers Lab. Mr. Layman has spent the last 20-plus years in San Francisco and Silicon Valley advising founders, entrepreneurs and technology and life sciences companies. Mr. Layman has extensive experience advising on and managing mergers and acquisitions, technology company investments and capital markets transactions. Mr. Layman also has extensive experience advising public companies on corporate governance, securities, mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions. Prior to joining Prime Movers Lab in February 2021, Mr. Layman was a Partner in the corporate group at Hogan Lovells US LLP since 2010. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Mr. Layman was a Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC. Mr. Layman earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan and his JD from New York University.

Board of Directors

Dakin Sloss, 30
Founder

Mr. Sloss is Founder and General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. He has led investments in and is a Board Member at Momentus Inc., Heliogen, Inc., Vaxxinity, Inc. (formerly known as C19 Corp., and formerly doing business as Covaxx), Tarana Wireless Inc. and Carbon Capture, Inc. Prior to founding Prime Movers Lab, Mr. Sloss served as founding CEO of Tachyus Corp. and OpenGov. Mr. Sloss studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at Stanford University. Mr. Sloss was recognized as one of Yahoo Finance’s THE NEXT: 21 people who will have a significant impact on the worlds of finance, business, sports or politics in the year ahead and was featured on CNBC discussing the rise of SPACs. In 2016, Mr. Sloss was recognized as a featured Forbes 30 Under 30 energy entrepreneur. In 2017, Mr. Sloss was named as a San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 honoree.

Richard Spencer, 67
Director Nominee

Mr. Spencer is a 1976 graduate of Rollins College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Upon graduation, he joined the United States Marine Corps, and proudly served as an H-46 (Phrog) pilot until 1981. After leaving active duty, Mr. Spencer worked on Wall Street for 16 years with responsibilities centered on investment banking services. He served as President of Crossroads Investment Management, LLC, and then joined Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer. Before being nominated as the Secretary of the Navy in 2017, Mr. Spencer was the Managing Director of Fall Creek Management, LLC. Mr. Spencer is also on the boards of Global Atlantic Financial Group, Morpheus Space GmbH and Aviation Safety Resources Inc. Mr. Spencer was sworn in as the 76th secretary of the Navy on Aug. 3, 2017, and served in that office until Nov 24, 2019. He served as acting secretary of defense from July 15, 2019, to July 23, 2019. He performed the duties of the deputy secretary of defense from July 23, 2019, to July 31, 2019.

Muneer Satter, 60
Director Nominee

Mr. Satter has been Founder and Managing Partner of Satter Medical Technology Partners, L.P. since 2016, and Chairman of Satter Investment Management, LLC since 2012, and he also manages the Satter Foundation. Prior to Satter Investment Management, Mr. Satter was a partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent 24 years in various roles, most recently as a senior member of the Merchant Banking Investment Committee overseeing private equity and debt investments, and the Global Head of the Mezzanine Group in the Merchant Banking Division, where he raised and managed over $30 billion of assets. He was also Chairman of the Risk Committee overseeing $80 billion of assets. Mr. Satter is currently a director of REX – Real Estate Exchange, Inc. Mr. Satter has been a director of Annexon, Inc. since December 2014, and was a director of Aerpio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from October 2013 to June 2020, a director and Chairman of Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. from May 2013 to December 2018 and a director of Vital Therapies, Inc. from October 2012 to October 2018. Mr. Satter serves as Vice Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and GS Gives, where he is also Chairman of the Investment Committee overseeing $1.2 billion of assets. Mr. Satter is also on the Board of Advisors of Accelerate Institute and is on the board of directors of the Navy SEAL Foundation and Northwestern Medical Group. Mr. Satter is on the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, where he was also previously Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Satter is also a former board member of World Business Chicago and the Nature Conservancy, where he was Chairman of the Finance Committee overseeing a $1.8 billion endowment. Mr. Satter received a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Koryn Estrada, 35
Director Nominee

Ms. Estrada is a Partner, co-CEO and co-CIO of Axon Capital, an asset management firm in New York. Ms. Estrada oversees a portfolio of concentrated long-term public and private investments, and in particular has driven the firm’s sizable portfolio of investments in early-stage growth companies. Prior to joining Axon Capital in 2011, Ms. Estrada worked at Shumway Capital Partners, and prior to that in the Oil & Gas group of the UBS Investment Banking Division. She is a co-founder of and partner at RiseWell, a rapidly growing oral care company, inspired by her passion for wellness and natural products. She is also a director of various growth companies including HeyMama and NuMilk (Plant Tap Inc.). She received her BA from Columbia University with majors in Economics and Philosophy.

William Ulrich, 37
Director Nominee

Mr. Ulrich has 15 years of experience within the energy and finance sectors and is focused on deploying technology to drive behavior change in the energy industry. Mr. Ulrich is currently the co-CEO and a Director of Presidio Petroleum. Fort Worth-based Presidio is an oil and gas efficiency company founded to acquire, operate, and optimize producing oil and natural gas properties in established U.S. onshore basins. The company leverages engineering efficiency and the embedding of technology to improve decision-making, achieve best-in-class operations, and enhance free cash flow in an environmentally and socially responsible manner across its portfolio of over 5,500 oil and gas wells. From 2009 to 2016, Mr. Ulrich served in senior corporate development roles at Atlas Energy (NYSE: ATLS), Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P. (NYSE: APL) and Atlas Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: ARP). From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Ulrich was an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank.