Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. III

Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. III

Dec 20, 2021 by Anthony Sozzi

MANAGEMENT & BOARD


Executive Officers

Dr. Donald G. Basile, 55
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer

Since August 2020, Dr. Basile also serves as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive for Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. (“Roman DBDR I”), a blank check company that consummated its initial public offering in November 2020 and announced the execution of a definitive agreement with respect to its initial business combination with CompoSecure Holdings, L.L.C, a Delaware limited liability company (“CompoSecure”) in April 2021. Since January 2021, Dr. Basile also serves as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive for Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. II (“Roman DBDR II”), a blank check company that consummated its initial public offering in [?] 2021. Dr. Basile has also served as an executive officer and director at Monsoon Blockchain Corporation since November 2019 and as a director of GIBF, GP Inc. since September 2018. Dr. Basile previously served as a director of Violin Memory, Inc. from April 2009 to January 2014 and as its Chief Executive Officer from April 2009 to December 2013. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of FusionIO from January 2008 to March 2009 and as its Chairman from July 2006 to March 2009. Dr. Basile previously worked at AT&T Bell Labs, IBM, United Health Group and Lenfest Group (acquired by Comcast) and served as Managing Director of Raza Foundries and Vice President of Raza Microelectonics (RMI)


Dixon Doll, Jr., 53
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Doll is currently also the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Roman DBDR I since August 2020 and the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Roman DBDR II since January 2021. Mr. Doll currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. since January 2016 and the Managing Director of Longstreet Ventures, Inc. since January 2003. From July 2009 to January 2014, Mr. Doll served as the Chief Operating Officer and as a director of Violin Memory, Inc. He has also previously worked as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Corporate Development at FusionIO from February 2008 to February 2009, as the Vice President of Corporate Development of NEON from May 1998 to July 2001 and as Vice President of Corporate Development of Recourse Technologies from July 2001 to August 2002. In addition, he was a Business Development Manager at Oracle Alliances Division from September 1994 to May 1998. Mr. Doll has previously served as a consultant to Oak Investment Partners, GTGR, Carlyle Group and DCM. He also is a partner at Birchwood Partners, an angel fund that helps early stage companies launch


John C. Small, 54
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Small also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Roman DBDR I since August 2020, the Chief Financial Officer of Roman DBDR II since January 2021 and the Chief Financial Officer of Monsoon Blockchain Corporation since December 2019. He served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Quanterra Capital Management LP from May 2019 until December 2020. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of Mode Media from April 2016 to September 2016, and the Chief Financial Officer of Viggle, Inc. (Nasdaq: VGGL) from September 2012 to October 2015. He served as Senior Vice President of Finance for Tsunami XR from October 2016 to May 2019. Mr. Small joined GLG Partners in 2000 as a Senior Asset Manager responsible for Telecom, Media, Technology and Renewable Energy investments for the GLG North American Opportunity Fund and served as the President of the GLG North America office from April 2000 to August 2011. He worked as a Telecom and Media analyst at Ulysses Management from January 1997 to March 2000 and as a Telecom analyst at Odyssey Partners from March 1996 to January 1997. He also worked as an equity research analyst at Dillon Read (from January 1992 to September 1993) and Morgan Stanley (from October 1993 to February 1996). Mr. Small has previously served as a director of Loyalty Alliance, Inc., PayEase Ltd., INFINIA Corporation, ViSole Energy, Inc., New Millennium Solar Equipment Co, ShortList Media Ltd, DraftDay Inc., and Spinvox Ltd. Mr. Small joined GLG Partners in 2000 as a Senior Asset Manager responsible for Telecom, Media, Technology and Renewable Energy investments for the GLG North American Opportunity Fund and served as the President of the GLG North America office from April 2000 to August 2011. He worked as a Telecom and Media analyst at Ulysses Management from January 1997 to March 2000 and as a Telecom analyst at Odyssey Partners from March 1996 to January 1997. He also worked as an equity research analyst at Dillon Read (from January 1992 to September 1993) and Morgan Stanley (from October 1993 to February 1996). Mr. Small has previously served as a director of Loyalty Alliance, Inc., PayEase Ltd., INFINIA Corporation, ViSole Energy, Inc., New Millennium Solar Equipment Co, ShortList Media Ltd, DraftDay Inc., and Spinvox Ltd. Mr. Small received a BA in Economics concentrating in International Relations from Cornell University.



Board of Directors

Dixon Doll, 79
Senior Director Nominee

Mr. Doll also has served as a senior director for Roman DBDR I since November 2020, a senior director for Roman DBDR II since, 2021 and also as an independent director for Prime Impact Acquisition I, a blank check company, since September 2020. Mr. Doll currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Institute (SIEPR). Previously, Mr. Doll served as the Chairman of Network Equipment Technologies (NWK) and as a director of DIRECTV (DTV). Mr. Doll was elected to the Board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2005 and served on the Executive Committee and as Chairman from 2008 to 2009. Mr. Doll co-founded both DCM Ventures and Accel Partners and led DCM Ventures’ investments in About.com (acquired by The New York Times Co.), @Motion (acquired by Openwave), Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR), Coradiant (acquired by BMC), Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq: FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq: INAP), Ipivot (acquired by Intel), and Neutral Tandem (Nasdaq: TNDM). Prior to co-founding DCM, Mr. Doll launched the venture capital industry’s first fund focused solely on telecom, investing in such noteworthy companies as Alantec, Bridge Communications, Centillion Networks, Network Equipment Technologies, Optilink, Picturetel, Polycom and UUNet. During his career, Mr. Doll was also named to the Forbes Midas list for four consecutive years, received the 2013 Special Achievement Award in VC from the International Business Forum, served on the faculty of the IBM Systems Research Institute in NYC for 10 years, and published the seminal book titled Data Communications which was adopted as course text by 60+ universities. He is a Board Member of Papal Foundation Rome and the University of San Francisco. He received his B.S. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar. Mr. Doll is the father of Dixon Doll, Jr., our Co-Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors.


Atiq Raza, 71
Director Nominee

Mr. Raza has served as an independent director for Roman DBDR II since, 2021. Since December 2014, Mr. Raza has served as the Chairman of Virsec Systems, Inc. and previously served as the CEO of Virsec Systems, Inc. from December 2014 to June 2020. Mr. Raza is an industry veteran and has been working in engineering leadership and senior management positions for the past thirty-two years. Mr. Raza was the founder, Chairman and CEO of RMI, which was acquired by NetLogic, which in turn was acquired by Broadcom on the strength of the RMI processor. Prior to this role, Mr. Raza served was Chairman and CEO of NexGen, the first company to challenge Intel in microprocessors. NexGen became a public company and subsequently was acquired by AMD, where Mr. Raza became the President and COO of AMD and served on its Board of Directors. Mr. Raza holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Punjab University, a BS with Honors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of London, and a MS degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University.


Arun Abraham, 39
Director Nominee

Mr. Abraham also has served as an independent director for Roman DBDR I since November 2020, as an independent director for Roman DBDR II since, 2021, and he served as chairman of the audit committee for Roman DBDR I from November 2020 to December 2020. Mr. Abraham is a managing director at M. Klein and Company, a global strategic advisory firm, where he helps source, evaluate and execute transactions for various special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) sponsored by M. Klein. Since joining M. Klein and Company in July 2017 to April 2021, Mr. Abraham also advised and helped execute M&A, capital markets and SPAC-related transactions for clients, including technology, FinTech, media, sports and other companies and select financial sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and other large private investors. Previously, Mr. Abraham was an investment banker at Lazard Frères & Co. from August 2016 to June 2017 and at Evercore Partners from May 2013 to August 2016, where he advised technology, media, FinTech, healthcare and other leading global companies and investors. From 2007 to 2011, he served as an attorney at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and is a member of the New York State Bar. Mr. Abraham holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a J.D. from USC Law School and a B.A. from Yale University.


Wenyan “Winston” Ma, 47
Director Nominee

He serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board at ThreeFold Tech, a decentralized cloud tech company, since March 2021 and the Chairman of Advisory Board at Open Mineral, a Fintech B2B metal marketplace company, since September 2020. From 2018 to 2019, Mr. Ma was the CEO of China Silkroad Investment & Development, a cross-border tech investment platform. From 2008 to 2018, he was a Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund, where he focused on global private equity and venture capital investments. In 2017 he served on the board of Noble Group (SGX: CGP). Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. A nationally certified Software Programmer as early as 1994, Mr. Ma is a serial book author on the tech revolution of China and the world. Mr. Ma earned his MBA from the University of Michigan Ross Business School (2001) and his master of law from the New York University School of Law (1998). He earned bachelor of science (1995) and bachelor of law degrees (1997) from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.


Alison Moore, 51
Director Nominee

She serves as CEO of Comic Relief US, a social impact non-profit, joining the company in late 2019 with extensive experience as a top executive in the media and technology industries. From 2017 to 2018, Ms. Moore served as Chief Business Officer, Beauty Collection at Condé Nast, overseeing the brand strategy, monetization, and operations for women-focused brands, such as Glamour and Allure. Prior to Condé Nast, from 2016 to 2017 Ms. Moore was Chief Revenue Officer at SoundCloud, overseeing all revenue, marketing and consumer product for the global digital music and audio platform, and she previously held senior positions at NBC Universal, DailyCandy and HBO, with a consistent focus on digital consumer experience, brand engagement and multiplatform revenue development.