Executive Officers

Paul Grinberg, 63
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

He has served as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of our board of directors since June 2024. Mr. Grinberg has over 20 years of experience as a Director, Chairman, President or Chief Financial Officer of several NASDAQ and NYSE companies and more than 40 years of experience spanning mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and financial management. He currently serves as the Chairman of Axos Financial, Inc., a nationwide, digital-first bank that provides consumer and business banking products through its low-cost distribution channels and affinity partner. He has served as a director of Axos Financial, Inc. since April 2004 and as the Chairman of its board of directors since February 2017. He played an important role in taking the company public and growing earnings from $2 million to $450 million from 2004 to 2024. Since July 2020, Mr. Grinberg has served on the advisory council of DEVA Capital, an affiliate of Banco Santander, as an alternative investor, specializing in credit across Europe and Latin America. From August 2019 to April 2024, Mr. Grinberg has served as a senior advisor at Flexpoint Ford LLC, a private equity investment firm specializing in the financial services and healthcare industries. From November 2020 to February 2024, Mr. Grinberg served as Chairman of Social Leverage Acquisition Corp I (NYSE: SLAC), a special purpose acquisition company formed to effect a business combination with one or more businesses. From July 2018 to December 2022, Mr. Grinberg served as a senior advisor at Blenheim Chalcot, one of the UK’s largest venture builders. Mr. Grinberg provides advisory services to private equity, credit funds and venture capital firms and their related businesses with a focus on financial services and financial technology. He also serves as a director to several credit funds and private companies. Prior to Axos, Mr. Grinberg served as President, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Encore Capital Group and Chief Financial Officer of Telespectrum Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Grinberg also served as partner and a senior member of the M&A services group at Deloitte, where he was employed for 14 years. During his tenure at Deloitte and in his capacity as an executive at various public and private companies, he worked on dozens of transactions including IPOs, acquisitions and debt offerings and in his capacity as an executive at various companies, was responsible for raising more than $10 billion across the capital markets. He graduated from Columbia Business School with a Master of Business Administration degree and from Yeshiva University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting.

Douglas Horlick, 51
Chief Financial Officer, President, and Director

Since May 2020, Mr. Horlick has worked as an investment banker at BCW Securities LLC. Mr. Horlick is also the founder of Estancia LLC, a strategy and advisory consulting firm based in Arizona established in 2015. Leveraging his industry expertise, he works closely with C-suite executives on both strategy and global sales initiatives. He has over 20 years of experience in the securities industry, specifically within sales and trading. From November 2020 to February 2024, Mr. Horlick served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Social Leverage Acquisition Corp I (NYSE: SLAC), a special purpose acquisition company formed to effect a business combination with one or more businesses. Prior to Estancia LLC, Mr. Horlick held senior securities positions at Goldman Sachs (Managing Director, Securities Division, from 2009 to 2014), Bank of America (Managing Director, Securities Division, from 2005 to 2009) and Citigroup (Vice President, Securities Division, from 2002 to 2005). In these roles, Mr. Horlick’s responsibilities all within the Foreign Exchange Division included Managing Director in charge of Foreign Exchange Global Client Coverage, Global Prime Brokerage, Institutional Sales in the Americas, Consumer Sales and Hedge Fund Sales. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Organizational Studies.

Board of Directors

Jeffrey T. Lager, 56
Director Nominee

Jeffrey Lager has over 28 years of public equity investment experience. He retired this year as a Partner after over 27 years with Capital Group, investment manager of the American Funds. At Capital Group, Mr. Lager recently served as the Principal Investment Officer, Co-President, and a Portfolio Manager of the $200 billion American Balanced Fund, Senior Vice-President and a Portfolio Manager of the $175 billion Washington Mutual Investors Fund, and a portfolio manager of the $25 billion American Funds Insurance Series Asset Allocation Fund. Mr. Lager also served over two decades as an American Funds proxy coordinator and proxy voter, during which time he developed corporate governance expertise by writing proxy guidelines, working in close partnership with public company management and boards, and voting upon thousands of proxy proposals. Earlier in his career at Capital, he served as an equity investment analyst covering U.S. environmental services, IT & business services, technology hardware and supply chain, and IT outsourcing and transaction processing companies. Previously, Mr. Lager worked as a manager of investment analysis at Medical Portfolio Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an associate at the Boston Consulting Group in Boston. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, as well as a master’s degree in sociology and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in decision analysis from Stanford University. Mr. Lager also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Michael Marquez, 51
Director Nominee

Mr. Marquez has over 29 years of experience operating, investing, acquiring and advising throughout the high-tech sector. He is a co-founder of Code Advisors LLC, a technology and media-focused boutique investment bank headquartered in San Francisco, California established in 2010 and acquired by the Raine Group in 2023, where Mr. Marquez is a Special Advisor. Code Advisors has completed a multitude of M&A transactions and financings including late-stage growth equity financings in Spotify and Twitter, IPO processes for Twitter, Angie’s List and Survey Monkey, and the sale of Supercell to SoftBank, Buddy Media to Salesforce and Playtika to Giant. Mr. Marquez is also the co-founder of Morado Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund established in 2010 that is focused on artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, robotics & autonomy, computer vision and health. Mr. Marquez has served as Morado Ventures’ general partner since inception. During his career, Mr. Marquez has made more than 140 direct investments and built a broad network across technology company executives, entrepreneurs, founders and corporate development groups throughout the world and an extensive network in each stage of the venture capital industry. Mr. Marquez has invested in and advised on venture exits to a large number of sophisticated acquirers including sales to Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Twitter, Citrix, US Bank, First Data, Facebook, Google, Samsung, Salesforce, Roche, Intel, Walmart, Rakuten, eBay, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft and McDonald’s and has led the acquisitions of numerous companies through his roles in the corporate development groups at Yahoo! and CBS, including the $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis.

Jaime W. Vieser, 55
Director Nominee

Mr. Vieser has over 30 years of experience investing across high yield, distressed debt, private equity and venture capital. Mr. Vieser’s experience includes his involvement in numerous successful corporate restructurings and recapitalizations in Europe and the US. Mr. Vieser helped found and was Co-Managing Partner of Castle Hill Asset Management LLC (“Castle Hill”), a multi-billion dollar asset manager and hedge fund. Prior to founding Castle Hill, for 9 years Mr. Vieser was responsible for the European High Yield Sales and Trading Group in London at Deutsche Bank AG, a multinational investment bank and financial services company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Vieser worked as a banker in the Leveraged Finance division of Bankers Trust Company, a bank holding company that was acquired by Deutsche Bank AG in 1999. Mr. Vieser holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.