Executive Officers

Mattia Tomba, 44
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director

He is the co-founder and managing partner of Alchemy Investment Management, an affiliate of our sponsor, and has been our director since October 27, 2021 and our co-CEO since November 2022. He has been a founding investor and the head of International Markets at Tradeteq since 2017. He has also been a Partner at M&M Investments Pte. Ltd., a holding company that invests in technology companies globally and provides debt and equity advice since 2016. He is a research affiliate at the Middle East Institute in Singapore (MEI), while from 2016 to 2018, Mr. Tomba was a senior fellow, and from 2015 to 2016, Mr. Tomba was a visiting senior fellow at MEI, where he focused on Asia?—?Middle East relations. He has also been sitting on the Advisory Council of the Center for Sovereign Wealth and Global Capital at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, since 2013. Mr. Tomba has experience in evaluating, negotiating, and structuring direct investments globally across all parts of the capital structure, in public and private markets. Mr. Tomba served as an Investment Manager at Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (Qatari Diar), where he managed an equity portfolio and worked on large private equity and real estate transactions worldwide from 2008 to 2016. Prior to that, in 2003, Mr. Tomba joined the Goldman Sachs group, where he was involved in the investment and portfolio management of the real estate funds managed by the bank until 2008. Mr. Tomba began his private equity and investment management career in 2002 with the Private Wealth Management team of Merrill Lynch. He studied business administration and international affairs at Bocconi University, Sciences  Po, and Fletcher School.

Vittorio Savoia, 35
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director

He is the co-founder and managing partner of Alchemy Investment Management, an affiliate of our sponsor, and has been our director since November 19, 2021 and our co-CEO since November 2022. Since 2017, he has been the founder, managing director and CEO of FIDES Holdings, a multi-asset alternative investment firm that is active in real estate, venture capital, private equity, middle-market direct lending, sustainable civil and structural engineering, and facilities & maintenance solutions. Mr. Savoia has over 15 years of experience in investment management, alternative asset management, and advising families and financial institutions on complex transactions across Europe and North America. Mr. Savoia served as the managing partner of VIS Partners, a Luxembourg-based independent GP, from 2016 to 2020. At VIS Partners, he led investment practices mainly focused on uncorrelated long-term value strategies across different asset classes and geographies. Mr. Savoia is an executive member of the Italian Family Offices Association. Mr. Savoia is a member of the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs and Investment Industry Association and an alumnus and faculty member of the Harvard Real Estate Alumni Organization. Mr. Savoia received a master’s degree in Business Management, Finance and Control from Harvard University in 2010. He also received a bachelor’s degree with Honours in Business Management from Westminster Business School, UK in 2008, and Rennes School of Business, France in 2007.

Board of Directors

Steven M. Wasserman, 57
Non-Executive Chairman

He is the co-founder and managing partner of Alchemy Investment Management, an affiliate of our sponsor, and has been our director since November 19, 2021 and our Non-Executive Chairman since November 2022. Mr. Wasserman has been a principal in MSP Sports Capital, LP., an investment fund specializing in professional sports businesses, since 2019. He served as Vice Chairman of The Roosevelt Investment Group, Inc. an investment advisory firm, from 2018 to 2021 and was previously Chief Executive Officer of Seaport Investment Management, LLC, an investment management firm, from 2015 to 2018 and helped Seaport develop new investment strategies during his tenure. Since 2017, Mr. Wasserman has been a senior advisor to a New York based hedge fund with respect to special situations/?credit opportunity investments and has also been an advisor to BlockWorks Group, LLC, a blockchain/?cryptocurrency communications company. From 2011 to 2014 he was Senior Managing Director of the Beige Group, LLC, a family office where he was responsible for identifying, analyzing and executing investment opportunities. Mr. Wasserman is also a director for byNordic, a SPAC currently listed on Nasdaq and previously was Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Security Group Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, from 2005 to 2009. He has also served as an advisor to various other special purpose acquisition companies including, but not limited to, Energy Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. from March 2006 to March 2008, Seanergy Acquisition Corp. from November 2007 to September 2008, and Starbulk Acquisition Corp. from April 2008 to March 2009. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Wasserman also served as the managing partner of AMT Ventures LLC, an entity primarily engaged in public and private equity and debt investments on a principal basis. During his tenure AMT portfolio investments included: Ktech Corporation, a provider of technical support services, scientific and engineering services and management expertise to a variety of government defense and industry clients; Nanodetex Corporation, a leader in lab-on-chip (LOC) platform technologies for gas phase chemical analysis and explosive detection; Agent Science Technologies Incorporated, a provider of neural information management software solutions to the defense industry; and Link One, LLC, a technology transfer advisory group to Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Wasserman is also a licensed attorney.

Debbie S. Zoldan, 57
Independent Director Nominee

Ms. Zoldan has been the Chief Compliance Officer of Seaport Securities Corporation since 2000. Prior to that she served as a Partner at Seaport Securities Corporation from 1987 to 2000. Ms. Zoldan holds Series 4, 7, 8, 14, 24, 55, and 63 FINRA Registrations. She is licensed as a registered representative with Seaport Securities Corporation, which is a registered securities broker/dealer and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, and the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, or SIPC. Ms. Zoldan sits on the NYSE Acceptability Board and the NYSE Hearing Board. She is also a member of the FINRA roster, to serve as a Non-Public FINRA Arbitrator. Ms. Zoldan received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from CUNY-Baruch College in New York in 1992.

Pablo Terpolilli, 54
Independent Director Nominee

Mr. Terpolilli is currently the founder and CEO of vabble Ltd., a startup that is building a neo-bank platform to help emerging market companies connect with institutional investors since 2021. Additionally, Mr. Terpolilli has been the founder and an executive of PACT-AM, an advisory and independent sponsor that is active in Europe and the Americas since 2019. Mr. Terpolilli has held various banking roles and has served in senior management roles at various industrial companies. In 2020, he co-headed the rollout of alternative investments for Santander Bank International, a major private bank based in Geneva, Switzerland. Between June 2017 and December 2018, Mr. Terpolilli led the private financing for the Western Hemisphere-Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the Americas at Standard Chartered Bank Plc. Mr. Terpolilli has also served on the board of directors of Valuable Insights since 2015. Since 2015, Mr. Terpolilli has held various advisory and consulting positions as well. From 2013 to 2014, he was the head of the corporate finance group at The Klesch Group, a large family-office-owned industrial conglomerate that operates in oil refining, shipping, commodities trading, petrochemicals and metals. In 2009, he joined UBS where he worked with the Special Situations Financing group until 2012. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Terpolilli served in various banking roles in leveraged finance and distressed trading at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in both London and New York. In 1998, Mr. Terpolilli joined the high yield division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, an investment bank, in New York. Mr. Terpolilli received an MBA from Babson College in 1998, where he graduated magna cum laude, a JD from University of Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1995 and an undergraduate research degree in International Trade and Economics from Argentine University of Enterprise in 1991.

Jinalkumar Bipin Shah, — [Appointed]
Independent Director Nominee

Mr. Shah has served as chief executive officer of Integral Associates Limited, a company that provides accounting, financial reporting and tax services, since December 2016. Mr. Shah has also served as chief executive officer of Integral Property Hub Limited since July 2020. Prior to that, from August 2004 to December 2016, Mr. Shah worked in in accounting practices in the UK to gain experience and exposure with different reporting and advisory to clients. Mr. Shah holds a degree in Management Accounting and Finance from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.