Pontem Corporation *

Pontem Corporation *

Dec 28, 2020 by Matt Cianci

LIQUIDATION – 5/15/23 – LINK

  • The Company anticipates that the last day of trading in the Class A ordinary shares will be May 26, 2023.
    • The per-share redemption price will be approximately $10.32

EXTENSION – 1/13/23 – LINK

  • The SPAC approved the extension of the date by which the Company has to consummate a business combination monthly from January 15, 2023 to July 15, 2023.
    • $833,333 has been deposited into the trust account

MANAGEMENT & BOARD


Executive Officers

Hubertus Muehlhaeuser, 51
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Muehlhaeuser was the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of CNH from September 2018 to March 2020, which generated revenue of $28 billion in 2019. Mr. Muehlhaeuser helped to strategically reposition CNH by announcing the separation of the company’s on-highway business (IVECO and FPT) from the core off-highway business (Case, New Holland, Steyr) and by focusing on growth and enhancements to the product and technology portfolio while delivering meaningful efficiencies and profit margin improvement. From 2015 to September 2018, Mr. Muehlhaeuser was the President & Chief Executive Officer of Welbilt, helping the company successfully complete its spin-off from Manitowoc in 2016 and acquire and successfully integrate Crem, a leading coffee machine maker. Prior to Welbilt, Mr. Muehlhaeuser served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of AGCO, during which time he contributed to the firm’s nearly doubling of revenue and tripling in market capitalization. Mr. Muehlhaeuser started his career at Arthur D. Little, where he was the global leader of Arthur D. Little´s Strategy & Transformation Practice, working with many of the world´s leading industrial companies. Mr. Muehlhaeuser received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the EBS University for Business and Law.


Nina Murphy, 43
Chief Financial Officer

Nina Murphy is currently the Chief Operating Officer of QVIDTVM where she is responsible for all financial management, legal, operations, administration and tax activities, since April 2019. From September 2018 to April 2019, Ms. Murphy was an Executive Director at MSIM on the Private Credit and Equity platform. From 2013 to September 2018, Ms. Murphy was the Chief Financial Officer of KEC Ventures, an early stage venture fund. She has over 20 years of financial, operational and product development experience having helped launch and manage several hedge funds and alternative investment products. In addition to the above, Ms. Murphy’s experience includes serving in chief financial and operating officer at AT Global Capital, a global macro hedge fund. Ms. Murphy received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Finance from Brooklyn College.


Board of Directors

Burak Alici, 45
Lead Director

Burak Alici is the Chief Executive Officer of QVIDTVM, a private investment firm focused on long-term capital appreciation with investments to support the growth of mission-driven entrepreneurs and unique global businesses, which he founded in April 2019. Prior to founding QVIDTVM, Mr. Alici served as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where his career spanned 12 years and where he managed the Global Discovery Fund, the number one fund in the Morningstar World Stock category. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Alici managed a multi-strategy investment partnership in Turkey for high net-worth individuals and began his career developing stock selection models for a market neutral hedge fund in Boston. Mr. Alici received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia Business School as a member of the Applied Value Investing Program, a Master of Science in Finance from Boston College, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University.


Erik Olsson, 58
Director 

Mr. Olsson is currently serving Chairman of the Board of Directors of WillScot Mobile Mini, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSC), the world’s leading provider of turnkey modular space and portable storage solutions with operations in the U.S., UK and Canada, since October 2019. Prior to this he served as President, CEO and Director of Mobile Mini, Inc., a portable storage company, from 2013 to October 2019. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc. (NYSE:RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, and a Director of Dometic Group AB (ST:DOM), a global industrial provider of solutions for mobile living. Mr. Olsson earned a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Gothenburg.


Peter Grosch, 65
Director 

Mr. Grosch is also the Chairman at Innio AG, serves on the board of 3i plc as a non-executive director and is a senior advisor to CAPVIS and Partners Group Ltd. Mr. Grosch was previously the Deputy Chairman of SLM Solution AG, Chief Executive Officer and President of Diehl Aerospace and Defence Systems, Executive Vice President of DaimlerChrysler Off-Highway and Managing Director and Board Member of MTU Friedrichhafen (now Rolls Royce Power Systems). Mr. Grosch received an undergraduate degree in Applied Sciences from Ulm University.


Luciano Mozzato, 63
Director 

Mr. Mozzato was previously Executive Vice President of the Power Services Applied Technology Solutions group at Siemens. Prior to its acquisition in 2017 by Siemens, Mr. Mozzato was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Services at Dresser-Rand. Before his tenure at Dresser-Rand, Mr. Mozzato was a senior executive at Otis Elevator where he served as CEO of Otis Italy and was previously Vice President of Otis Latin America and Vice President of Global Supply Chain and Logistics Worldwide. Mr. Mozzato’s senior executive experience in the industrials space extends across multiple operational verticals (including sales, manufacturing and services) and geographies (including the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Europe). Mr. Mozzato received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hartford.