Executive Officers

Boon Sim, 62
Director, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman

Boon Sim has been our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Offer and a director of the company since July 25, 2024. Mr. Sim is the Founder and Managing Partner of Artius Capital, an investment firm focused on making private equity and growth investments in technology enabled businesses including software and fintech businesses. Mr. Sim was the founder of Artius I, a SPAC that raised $724.5 million on Nasdaq in July 2020 and completed its business combination with carbon-negative products maker Origin Materials in June 2021. Previously, Mr. Sim was Advisory Senior Director of Temasek, a financial investment company privately-owned by the Government of Singapore, from 2016 to 2017, and President, Americas Group, Head of Markets Group and Head of Credit and Life Science Portfolio from 2012 to 2016. He was previously the Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Credit Suisse. During his twenty-year career at Credit Suisse and its predecessor, The First Boston Corporation, Mr. Sim held several senior positions of increasing responsibility, including Head of M&A Americas and Co-head of Technology Group. Before joining The First Boston Corporation, Mr. Sim worked as a design engineer at Texas Instruments Inc., focusing on semiconductor design. Mr. Sim has also served on the board of directors of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board since 2020. Mr. Sim received a Master of Science (SM Engineering) degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Private & Public Management (MPPM) degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng First Class Honors) degree from the National University of Singapore. Mr. Sim has been selected to serve on our board of directors due to his significant financial investment experience.

Board of Directors

John Stein, 60
Director Nominee

Mr. Stein has been, since 2001, a founding principal of Fidelis Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor advising private investment funds making direct equity investments in private companies. In this capacity, he has served on the boards of numerous private companies. Mr. Stein also is a co-founder and the Chairman of IntraMicron, Inc. Mr. Stein served on the boards of Wise Metals Group from 2008 to 2014 and of Golden Enterprises from 2010 to 2016. Additionally, Mr. Stein served for over 20 years as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raycom Media. Mr. Stein received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, an MBA from Auburn University at Montgomery, and a BS in Business Administration from Auburn University. Mr. Stein is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Kevin Costello, 62
Director Nominee

Mr. Costello has been an active investor, operator, and advisor to a variety of technology companies. He currently sits on the board of Elemica, Inc., Kahua, Inc., Unison Software, Inc., Tribute Technology, and NPI, LLC, all privately held companies. Mr. Costello was a director of Artius I, which successfully completed its business combination with carbon-negative products maker Origin Materials in June 2021. He was formerly lead independent director of Rackspace Inc. and a director of Cbeyond, Inc., The Rainmaker Group, Inc., PRGX Global, Inc., FinancialForce.com, Inc., Blue Cat Networks, Inc. and Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC. He was executive chairman of Top Tech Holdings, Inc. Mr. Costello served as a director of Vantiv, Inc. from 2014 to 2017 and as a director of its successor Worldpay until 2019. Mr. Costello served in a variety of senior roles at Ariba, Inc. from 2002 to 2007 and as President from 2007 until its acquisition by SAP in 2012. Following that acquisition, Mr. Costello served as president of Ariba, an SAP Company, from 2012 to 2014. Prior to joining Ariba, Mr. Costello spent 18 years with Andersen Business Consulting, during which he served in various senior management positions. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a BS in accounting.

Karen Richardson, 62
Director Nominee

Ms. Richardson has a breadth of experience in the technology services industry and currently serves as a non-executive director of BP plc and lead independent director of Exponent, Inc. Ms. Richardson was a director of Artius I, which successfully completed its business combination with carbon-negative products maker Origin Materials in June 2021. Ms. Richardson served as the chairman of the board at Origin Materials Inc. from 2021 until 2024 and was a director of Doma Holdings, Inc. Ms. Richardson served as a director of Worldpay, Inc. from January 2018 until July 2019. Prior to this, Ms. Richardson was an independent non-executive director of Worldpay Group plc from 2016 to 2018. Ms. Richardson also served as a non-executive director at BT Plc from 2011-2018. Prior to her time at Worldpay and BT, Ms. Richardson held a number of senior sales and marketing roles in technology companies, including her tenure as Chief Executive Officer at Epiphany Inc. between 2003 and 2006. Ms. Richardson has also served as an advisor to Silver Lake Partners and has served on a number of private company boards, including i2 Holdings, Ayasdi AI LLC, Hackerrank, Convercent, Inc., VirtuO2, and Hi5 Networks, Inc. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and was awarded distinctions from the Stanford Industrial Engineering Department and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers.