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Mr. Mason is the Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer at Merlin Labs and currently serves on the board of directors of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy at Syracuse University, KinectAir and the BluPrint Collective. Mr. Mason previously served as Operating Partner of 776 Fund Management, a venture capital firm, from January 2021 to June 2022. Mr. Mason has 12 years of experience helping entrepreneurs navigate regulatory and public policy barriers to bring future technologies to market throughout North America, Europe, South America and Asia. Before Seven Six, Mr. Mason served as a Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 2020 to 2021. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2020, Mr. Mason served as Vice President, Certification and Regulation, at Airbus, leading global policy for the company's emerging technology investments in autonomous air taxis, unmanned aircraft and urban air mobility. Prior to Airbus, Mr. Mason worked at Alphabet's Google X and Google on the engineering and public policy teams to help bring technologies like drone delivery and autonomous vehicles to market. Mr. Mason received his Bachelor's Degree at Syracuse University, where he was recognized as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, one of the country's most prestigious undergraduate awards. He earned his Master's Degree at the University of Michigan and also studied at Princeton University's School of Public Policy and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government as a Galbraith Scholar.

Lee Daley began his career with 25 years in international advertising. He served as the Global CEO of Red Cell Network for WPP, Executive Chairman of HHCL in London, Group Chairman and CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi UK, and Chief Strategy Officer of McCann World Group in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and globally. Since 2011, Mr. Daley has worked as an advisor and board director with the founding teams of several successful Silicon Valley startups including Boxed.com, Equidate (now Forge Global), Twin Science, Revolution Solar, and Ronoc Asia, as well as mature tech businesses such as GlobalLogic and McLaren Applied and Advanced Technologies. With over 30 years of board experience, Mr. Daley continues to advise founders, boards, and clients around the world on business, marketing, and strategy issues. In 2018, Mr. Daley co-founded Hello Genius with former Microsoft, MIT, and McKinsey alumni and with the guidance of the late Sir Ken Robinson. Under Mr. Daley's strategic leadership and chairmanship, Hello Genius has invested 5M in building a platform technology that harnesses AI and advanced machine learning algorithms to personalize users' content experiences and develop sophisticated data and analytics. Mr. Daley studied politics and philosophy, graduating from the Victoria University of Manchester, before his postgraduate studies in marketing at Kingston Business School in the UK. He has also undertaken executive studies at Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia, and the Yale School of Management. Mr. Daley is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Mr. Gossard has served as our Chief Compliance Officer since April 2022 and currently serves as a Managing Director at PINE Advisor Solutions. Mr. Gossard is a seasoned Fund and Advisor Chief Compliance Officer with 25 years of experience in the asset management industry. Most recently, he was the Chief Compliance Officer for SS&C ALPS in which he held responsibilities for firm compliance, AML, risk management, portfolio compliance, internal audit, vendor oversight and outsourced CCO services. In addition to serving as the CCO for SS&C ALPS, Mr. Gossard also served as Fund CCO for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, SPDR DJIA ETF Trust, and SPDR S&P MidCap400 ETF Trust with aggregate AUM in excess of 350 billion. Before ALPS, Mr. Gossard held an 18-year tenure at Citibank and a multitude of job titles making him a versatile compliance professional. Cory holds a degree from Heidelberg University and holds a FINRA Series 7 and ACAMS Certification.

Mr. Silver is our Chief Operating Officer. He is a leading lawyer in the FinTech industry, launching and representing many of the leading companies in the space across their offerings and operations in the broker-dealer, crypto and digital advisory businesses. This includes deep knowledge and understanding of the largest platforms operating in the private securities/late-stage pre-IPO investing space. He has also been an investor in many early stage pre-IPO companies. Mr. Silver started his career on the regulatory side as an Enforcement lawyer with the Bureau of Securities in the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, as well as the Enforcement Division of the NYSE (which was later merged with the NASD to form FINRA). For the last 15 years, he has been on the private side as a Partner at a financial services boutique law firm as well as Lowenstein Sandler LLP. Mr. Silver received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Maryland and his J.D. from New York Law School.

Sohail Prasad is our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and is Founder, Chairman, & Chief Executive Officer of DestinyXYZ Inc. Prior to founding Destiny, Mr. Prasad founded and served as CEO of Forge (NYSE:FRGE), a global private securities market place building trading, custody, and data infrastructure to meet the needs of high-growth unicorn companies, employees, and investors. In March 2022, Forge became the first dedicated trading platform for private shares to become a public company. As an eighteen-year-old, Mr. Prasad was among the youngest founders to go through Y Combinator, a start-up accelerator, and was later named a Thiel Fellow by the Thiel Foundation. Over the years, Mr. Prasad has advised and invested in over 200 start-ups, including as seed investor in notable start-ups such as Rippling, Rappi, Notion, Retool, Vise, Mercury, and Superhuman. He continues to invest in early stage technology companies through S2 Capital and serves as its Founding Partner. Prior to founding Forge, Mr. Prasad held roles in product management at Zynga, as an early engineer at mobile advertising firm Chartboost, and various other roles at Google and the MIT Media Lab. Mr. Prasad attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied Electrical & Computer Engineering before dropping out.

Ms. Chacko currently serves as a Director of Product Management at Meta Platforms, Inc., a global technology company. Ms. Chacko previously served as a Director of Product Management at Google LLC, a global technology company, and as a Director of Product Management at Lyft Inc., a transportation network company. Early in her career, Ms. Chacko worked in technology consulting at IBM Global Business Services, a major technology company. Ms. Chacko has a BSBA and a BA in Marketing, International Business and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship from University of California, Berkley

Mr. Jacobson currently serves as a Business Development Executive, and formerly served as the Senior Managing Partner, at CFGI, LLC, a leading accounting and business advisory firm. Prior to its acquisition by CFGI, LLC, Mr. Jacobson served as the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Pine Hill Group, a premier accounting consultancy and transaction advisory firm. At Pine Hill Group, Mr. Jacobson's responsibilities included day-to-day operations, business development, strategy, EOS integration, firm culture, team building, special projects, business plan formation, mergers and acquisitions and client service delivery. During his tenure at both CFGI, LLC and Pine Hill Group, Mr. Jacobson advised clients on dozens of capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, generally accepted accounting principles, and Securities and Exchange Commission compliance and reporting. Throughout his career, Mr. Jacobson has served in numerous executive leadership roles, including Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, at public and non-public companies and has significant advisory and board membership experience. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jacobson served in senior managerial audit positions at Ernst & Young LLP and BDO Seidman, LLP where he was responsible for audit engagements of private, pre-IPO and publicly traded companies in various industries. Mr. Jacobson obtained his B.S. in Accounting from Rutgers University and is a certified public accountant.

Mr. Sattelmair has served as our Chief Financial Officer since April 2022. He currently serves as a Director at PINE Advisor Solutions and has nearly 25 years in the financial services and asset management industries. Prior to PINE, he spent the previous 7 years at Transamerica Asset Management where he served as the Director of Fund Operations and Assistant Treasurer of a wide range of registered products with AUM of 80+ billion. In his roles at Transamerica Asset Management, Mr. Sattelmair was responsible for the oversight of all aspects of the funds including fund accounting, custody, fund administration, valuation, and oversight of third-party vendors. Prior to joining Transamerica Asset Management in July 2014, Mr. Sattelmair spent 15 years working at State Street Bank in various roles and locations including Boston, MA and Kansas City, MO. Mr. Sattelmair left State Street as a Vice President of Fund Administration. Mr. Sattelmair obtained his B.S. in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Mr. Rodland currently serves as Chief Operating Officer at Endurance Energy Equipment Integration Co., Ltd. an energy solutions company. Mr. Rodland previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Aetherflux Inc., a U.S. energy solutions company, General Partner at Elefund LLC, a venture capital firm, and as Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Robinhood Markets, Inc., a financial services company. Prior to Robinhood, Mr. Rodland served as Chief Operating Officer of Chronos Research on Wall Street. Mr. Rodland has a Bachelors degree in Economics, Business, Computer Science from Whitworth College.