Emerging Markets Horizon Corp.
LIQUIDATION – 3/7/23 – LINK
- The Company anticipates that the last day of trading in the Class A ordinary shares will be March 10, 2023.
- The per-share redemption price will be approximately $10.41
MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Executive Officers
Riccardo Orcel, 55 [Resgined 4/21/22]
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Orcel served as Head of Global Banking and as a member of the Executive Committee at VTB Capital for 10 years and has held multiple roles at VTB Bank, including as deputy chairman of the Management Board from 2011 to 2012, Head of Client Coverage for all large corporate clients in Russia and CIS and Head of VTB International. Before joining VTB Capital in 2011, Mr. Orcel worked in various senior investment banking roles at Merrill Lynch and BAML in Emerging Markets including as Head of Investment and Corporate Banking for CEEMEA. Mr. Orcel has diverse experience in board membership, including acting as a Non-Executive Director at PJSC M.video since 2021, as a Non-Executive Director at EN+ Group plc from 2012 to 2018 (preparing the company for its IPO in 2018), as Deputy Chairman and a member of the board of VTB Bank from 2011 to 2013, and as a member of the Supervisory Board of VTB Europe from 2014 to 2017.
Bernard Abdelmalak, 43 [Resigned 3/25/22]
Chief Financial Officer and Director Nominee
Mr. Abdelmalak has over 21 years’ experience in banking and has served as a director within VTB Capital’s finance function since 2013. He is responsible for the management financial reporting of all of its trading businesses. Prior to this position, Mr. Abdelmalak served as a director at Renaissance Capital from 2007 to 2013, where his responsibilities included working within the Finance team, serving as Chief Operations Officer for the Equities and Fixed income businesses, where he was also responsible for the management of various business lines, as well as performing due diligence on certain emerging market targets for both takeovers and mergers, primarily in Africa. During Mr. Abdelmalak’s tenure at Renaissance Capital, he was also the head of the corporate governance function and a member of the due diligence panel that was interviewed by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). Mr. Abdelmalak’s banking career started at Citi, where he was assistant vice president from 2000-2007. Mr. Abdelmalak holds a combined bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Law with honors from Kingston University.
Jonathan Neill, — [Appointed 3/25/22]
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Neill is the founding partner of FPP Asset Management LLP and has nearly 30 years of investment management experience. From 1990 to 1998, he was senior investment manager at Pictet Asset Management London, jointly responsible for the groups’ specialist equity business of international smaller companies and emerging markets. Prior to Pictet Asset Management London, Mr. Neill worked at Mercury Asset Management from 1988 to 1990 as a manager of specialist international growth stocks and a specialist UK growth fund. He began his career in 1986 at Oppenheimer Fund Management. Mr. Neill holds a BA Honors French from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
Board of Directors
Enrique Fernández Aisa, 53
Director Nominee
Since July 2020, Mr. Fernandez Aisa has been a Non-Executive Director at M.Video-Eldorado. Prior to his current role at the board of M.Video-Eldorado, Mr. Fernandez Aisa held various executive positions at the company, including as a Chief Executive Officer from 2016 to 2020 and as a Chief Commercial Officer from 2009 to 2016. Before joining, M.Video-Eldorado worked in different management roles in Eldorado Retail Company, MediaMarkt Saturn Retail Group, MediaMarkt Saturn Spain and Whirlpool Europe. Mr. Fernandez Aisa has a successful track record of M&A execution. During his tenure at M.Video-Eldorado, he oversaw the acquisition of Eldorado LLC for RUB 45.5 billion in April 2018 and the acquisition of Media-Saturn-Rusland LLC, the Russian business of MediaMarktSaturn, in August 2018.
Jean-Pierre Thomas, 64
Director Nominee
Mr. Thomas is the president and founder of Thomas Vendôme Investment, an independent company that specializes in fundraising, M&A and strategic advisory services. Mr. Thomas is also president and founder of the Russian-European Finance Company, LLC which he founded in 2019. Prior to founding Thomas Vendôme Investment in 2013, Mr. Thomas had worked as a managing partner of Lazard Bank for 15 years beginning in 1997. Mr. Thomas also had a political career in France, focusing on budgetary affairs & savings. Mr. Thomas also served as independent director and chairman of the board at RUSAL, from 2012 to 2019; advisor at Sanofi Pasteur, from 2014 to 2017; as president of the savings committee at Cercle de l’Union Interalliee, from 1998 to 2008; chairman of the audit committee at Recylex S.A. from 2015 to 2019; chairman of the remuneration committee at Recylex S.A. from 2013 to 2019; and has been serving as senior advisor to the president at AMUNDI, since 2016. Additionally, Mr. Thomas has held a number of political positions, including Vice-President of the Lorraine regional council from 1985 to 1991 and a chair of its financial committee from 1991 to 1997, as well as a Parliament Member representing the Vosges department from 1997 to 2002. He also sat on the National Assembly’s Financial Committee and acted as a spokesperson on the French budget. Mr. Thomas’ experience of legal framework development includes the “Loi Thomas”, the law on personal pension plans passed in 1997 in France.
Herbert Stepic, 74
Director Nominee
Mr. Stepic is currently an independent international business consultant and serves as chairman at BC Moldindconbank S.A. From 2001 to 2013, he acted in multiple capacities at Raiffeisen, one of the leading banking groups in CEE, including deputy chairman of Raiffeisen Zentralbank, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International AG (“RBI”) and Raiffeisen International Bank Holding, as well as being a member of the audit committee of Raiffeisen branches in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Albania and Bosnia. He has been working as Consultant focused in the finance industry and real estate, primarily in CEE and EU-countries, since May 2013. Mr. Stepic holds non executive board positions in various industries internationally. Mr. Stepic has more than 40 years of experience in the international finance industry, business and trade and has particular expertise in for CEE, the Arab World and Far East Asia. Mr. Stepic is responsible for establishing the first RBI outpost in Budapest in 1987. Under his leadership, the bank expanded its network of subsidiary banks into 17 CEE-markets, and 32 outposts worldwide including Peking, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Stepic has been serving in major board functions for 27 years, including his long term position on the board of the International Chamber of Commerce in Austria; he is the author of the “Handbook for Export Finance,” widely used in international trade and export.