Executive Officers

Nicholas Petruska, 38
Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Petruska is a long-tenured and experienced SPAC executive. He serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary of Hennessy VI since September 2021. Mr. Petruska held the same position with Hennessy V (January 2021 to December 2022), IV (February 2019 to December 2020), III (June 2017 to October 2018), II (July 2015 to February 2017) and a similar position with Hennessy I (January 2014 to February 2015). Hennessy V liquidated in December 2022. Mr. Petruska led the transaction execution and due diligence assessments of School Bus Holdings (Blue Bird) (NASDAQ: BLBD), Daseke, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE), NRC Group (NYSE: NRCG) and Canoo Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ: GOEV), for Hennessy I, II, III and IV, respectively. From November 2022 to November 2023, Mr. Petruska has served as Special Advisor to Twin Ridge Capital Acquisition Corp on its merger with Carbon Revolution plc (NASDAQ: CREV) and of NewHold Investment Corp from July 2020 to July 2021 which subsequently merged with Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: EVLV). Prior to working with the Hennessy Capital SPACs, from July 2012 to July 2014, Mr. Petruska was an investment professional with CHS Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, and from January 2010 to July 2012, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Daniel Zlotnitsky, 29
Chief Financial Officer and Director Nominee

Mr. Zlotnitsky has robust experience as a SPAC investor. Mr. Zlotnitsky serves as an investment professional with Hennessy VI as well as previously with Hennessy V. Hennessy V liquidated in December 2022. From November 2022 to November 2023, Mr. Zlotnitsky served as Special Advisor to Twin Ridge on its merger with Carbon Revolution plc (NASDAQ: CREV). Prior to working with the Hennessy Capital SPACs, from June 2019 to December 2021, Mr. Zlotnitsky was an investment professional at The Gores Group LLC, where he was a member of the SPAC investment team that consummated Gores Holdings IV, Inc.’s merger with United Wholesale Mortgage (NYSE: UWMC), Gores Holdings V, Inc.’s merger with Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. (NYSE: AMBP), and Gores Metropoulos II, Inc.’s merger with Sonder Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SOND). Prior to joining The Gores Group LLC, from April 2018 to June 2019, Mr. Zlotnitsky was an investment professional at Breakaway Capital, a middle-market private equity and structured credit firm, and from July 2017 to April 2018, an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey.

Board of Directors

Dean Seavers, 63
Executive Director Nominee

Mr. Seavers served as the Chair of the Utility Board of PG&E from 2020 to 2023 following the company’s emergence from bankruptcy. While at PG&E, Mr. Seavers also served as a director of Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. from January 2021 to February 2022 until its merger with Greenlight Biosciences (NASDAQ: GRNA). From December 2015 to January 2020, Mr. Seavers served as the President of National Grid US and Executive Director of National Grid, PLC (listed on both LSE and NYSE). From April 2012 to December 2015, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Red Hawk, after carving it out from United Technologies. Prior to founding Red Hawk, from October 2007 to January 2011, Mr. Seavers served as President of Global Services in United Technologies’ Fire & Security division. From December 2000 to September 2007, Mr. Seavers also served as a Tyco Officer with full P&L responsibility for SimplexGrinnell, a large commercial fire alarm and fire suppression systems. Mr. Seavers continues to sit on the Boards of both public and private companies in both products and services businesses while also taking on director and advisory positions at financial institutions, such as Stifel, Carlyle Group Inc., Albemarle Corp. (NYSE: ALB), and Ametek Inc. (NYSE: AME).

Gregory Ethridge, 47
Director Nominee

Mr. Ethridge has served as Chief Financial Officer of Canoo Inc. (NASDAQ: GOEV) since August 2023 and from December 2020 through December 2023 served on its board of directors. Mr. Ethridge also served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and director of Hennessy VI from October 2021 to August 2023, resigning as President and Chief Operating Officer in connection with his appointment as the Canoo Chief Financial Officer and continues to serve as a member of Hennessy VI’s board of directors. Prior to this, Mr. Ethridge served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and a director of Hennessy V from January 2021 to December 2022 and President, Chief Operating Officer, and a director of Hennessy IV from February 2019 to December 2020. He has also served as Chairman of Motorsports Aftermarket Group, a designer, manufacturer, marketer and distributor of aftermarket parts, apparel and accessories for the motorcycle and power sports industry since June 2019. He previously served as President of Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corporation from January 2017 to November 2018, at which time it merged with U.S. Well Services, LLC to become U.S. Well Services, Inc., a growth and technology-oriented oilfield service company focused exclusively on hydraulic fracturing which was subsequently sold to ProFrac Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ACDC) in November 2022. He also served as Senior Partner of MatlinPatterson Global Advisers LLC from January 2009 to December 2019.

John Adams, 61
Director Nominee

Mr. Adams is a senior and experienced investment banker with approximately 40 years of experience in investment banking working across a number of industries in M&A, restructuring, and public and private financing. Since August 2019, Mr. Adams currently serves as a Founding Partner of CMD Global Partners, LLC, a boutique investment bank. Prior to founding CMD Global Partners, LLC, from March 2013 to August 2019, Mr. Adams was a Managing Director at XMS Capital Partners LLC. Prior to his time at XMS, from August 1999 to March 2013 Mr. Adams spent 14 years at Lazard where he held senior positions such as Global Head of Private Equity Coverage, Head of Midwest Investment Banking, and Global Head of Automotive Coverage. Prior to Lazard, from July 1986 to August 1999, Mr. Adams spent 13 years with Morgan Stanley in New York, Chicago and London where he ran the firm’s European M&A Business Development effort.