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Mr. Nieuwkoop has served as our Chief Operating Officer since the Closing Date. From November 2020 to November 2025, Mr. Nieuwkoop served as the Group Chief Strategy Officer of NASDAQ-listed Triller Group Inc. (previously AGBA Group Holding Limited) (AGBA). Mr. Nieuwkoop brings extensive experience in operational management, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate finance across the financial services industry. As part of the AGBA team, he spearheaded strategic corporate development initiatives, managed FinTech investments, and headed up several corporate departments. At AGBA, he was a board member or observer at Nutmeg, a British digital wealth platform; Tandem Money, a British challenger bank and Zai, a global payments company based in Ireland and Australia. Prior to AGBA, from 2005 to July 2020, Mr. Nieuwkoop was a Managing Director at Primus Pacific Partners, a private equity firm focused on financial services. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Nieuwkoop held corporate development positions at Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. Mr. Nieuwkoop started his career in the financial institutions investment banking group at Salomon Brothers from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Nieuwkoop received a Master of Science (MSc) in Business Administration and Management from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Mr. Beldner has served as our Chief Financial Officer since the Closing Date. Mr. Beldner is a seasoned finance professional with a track record of both decentralized and traditional finance experience. Over the past five years, he has worked in the decentralized finance industry as both a Partner / Head of Finance for a private investment fund, Hard Yaka Ventures LP, from July 2022 to January 2025, focusing on payment technology and cryptocurrency as well as the Controller of Digital Currency Group, Inc., a global venture capital firm that builds and supports blockchain and digital companies, from February 2021 to February 2022. Mr. Beldner brings 13 years of traditional finance experience as well, from his time working as a finance / accounting professional at Macquarie Group, Barclays PLC and Lehman Brothers. Prior to working in industry, he spent seven years working at PwC advising clients on complicated financial structures and transactions. Mr. Beldner received a B.A. from Duke University in economics and an MBA from the University of Maryland in Finance. He also is a New York State licensed CPA.

Mr. Schamis has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. Schamis is Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC. Previously, Mr. Schamis worked at J.C. Flowers from 2000 to 2014, most recently as a Managing Director and member of the management committee. Mr. Schamis joined J.C. Flowers at its inception and has significant experience investing in financial services and related businesses globally. Prior to J.C. Flowers, Mr. Schamis worked in the financial institutions investment banking group at Salomon Brothers from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Schamis is currently a member of the Board of Directors of South Street Securities Holdings, Inc., Panmure Liberum Limited, Kepler Cheuvreux SA, Marsh, Berry & Company, LLC, Cascadia Capital and Proformex. Mr. Schamis received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. Mr. Schamis also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the village of Sands Point, NY.

Mr. Diamond has served as Chair of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. Diamond is Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC. Until 2012, Mr. Diamond was Chief Executive of Barclays, having previously held the position of President of Barclays, responsible for Barclays Capital and Barclays Global Investors. He became an executive director of Barclays in 2005 and had been a member of the Barclays Executive Committee since 1997. Prior to Barclays, Mr. Diamond held senior executive positions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Diamond worked at Credit Suisse First Boston from 1992 to 1996, where his roles included Vice Chairman and Head of Global Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange in New York, as well as Chairman, President and CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston Pacific. Mr. Diamond worked at Morgan Stanley from 1979 to 1992, including as the Head of European and Asian Fixed Income Trading. Mr. Diamond is currently Chairman of the Board of Concord II and Finstreet Limited, as well as Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Export Import Bank of the United States. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of South Street Securities Holdings, Inc., Crux Informatics, Atlas Mara, Concord Acquisition Corp and Concord Acquisition Corp III. He is also a Trustee of The American Foundation of the Imperial War Museum Inc., a Life Member of The Council on Foreign Relations and is involved in several non-profit initiatives, including being a Director of the Diamond Foundation. He is also Life Trustee and former Chair of the Colby College Board of Trustees.

Mr. King has served as a member of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. King has served as an Operating Partner at Atlas Merchant Capital LLC since November 2018. From December 2009 through March 2016, Mr. King held several senior roles at Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), an international investment banking firm, including serving as Chief Executive Officer of Investment Banking and Chairman of the Investment Banking Executive Committee. Mr. King was also a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee, which oversees all of the Barclays PLC businesses. Mr. King currently serves as a director, and as Chair of the compensation committee, of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO), an out-of-home advertising company. Mr. King served as a director of Leerink Partners LLC, a leading investment bank focused on the healthcare and life science industries, until its sale in January 2019. Mr. King also served on the board of directors of Panmure Gordon, a British corporate and institutional investment bank, from December 2018 until it completed its merger with Liberum Investment in May 2024. Additionally, Mr. King served as a director of Concord Acquisition Corp from December 2020 until its delisting in December 2022, as a director of Concord II from September 2021 to January 2023, as a director of Concord Acquisition Corp III (NYSE: CNDB), a blank check company, from November 2021 until its merger with GCT Semiconductor, Inc in March 2024, as a director of Silicon Valley Bank from September 2022 until March 2023, as a director of SVB Financial Group from September 2022 until its reorganization in November 2024 and as a director of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc. (NASDAQ: RADI), an international aggregator of rental streams underlying wireless and other digital infrastructure sites, from November 2020 until its sale in September 2023. Mr. King received his MBA with distinction from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin College.

Mr. Leibowitz has served as a member of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. Leibowitz is a finance and technology entrepreneur who specializes in business transformation and capital markets. Mr. Leibowitz is an Operating Partner of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC, and serves as a member of the board of Concord Acquisition Corp II, a publicly-trades special purpose acquisition company (Concord II), as well as Vice Chairman of XCHG Xpansiv, an intelligent commodities exchange focusing on renewable energy products. He served on the board of Forge Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: FRGE) from 2024 until its acquisition by The Charles Schwab Corporation in March 2026. He is also on the board of various other private companies in the data management, fintech, digital law, and site logistics businesses. Mr. Leibowitz also served on the boards of directors of Enfusion Inc. (NYSE: ENFN), a software provider in the investment management industry, until its merger with Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc., in April 2025, and Concord Acquisition Corp III (NYSE: CNDB), a blank check company, from November 2021 until its merger with GCT Semiconductor, Inc. in March 2024, Most recently, Mr. Leibowitz served as Chief Operating Officer, Head of Global Equities Markets and as a Member of the board of directors of NYSE Euronext, from 2007 to 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Leibowitz served as Chief Operating Officer of Americas Equities at UBS, Co-head of Schwab Soundview Capital Markets, and CEO of Redibook. Mr. Leibowitz was formerly a founding partner at Bunker Capital, and Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Trading and Equities technology at CS First Boston. Mr. Leibowitz graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics.

Mr. Rosengren has served as a member of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. Rosengren is CEO of Rosengren Consulting and Former Senior Lecturer at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. He previously served as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2007 to his retirement in 2021. As a Federal Reserve Bank president, he was a participant and voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Mr. Rosengren joined the Boston Fed in 1985 and held various roles in the Bank's Research and Supervision, Regulation, and Credit Departments. He has published numerous papers and articles, and is often cited in leading academic journals and is featured in major media on topics including macroeconomics, monetary policy, international banking, bank supervision, and risk management. Mr. Rosengren serves on the board of directors of Beacon Financial Corporation, Inc. (NYSE: BBT), f/k/a Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company, is a member of the Investment Advisory Group for the Harold Alfond Foundation, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Colby College. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Colby College and received a PH.D. in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mr. Bhatt has served as a member of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. Bhatt has been the Chief Executive Officer of VGYAAN Pharmaceuticals LLC (VGYAAN), a company focused on developing and commercializing clinically critical drugs. Mr. Bhatt was also a Board Member of VGYAAN until June 2023. Prior to that, in November 2001, Mr. Bhatt founded Proximare and is its Managing Director. Proximare is a strategic advisory firm focused exclusively on the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Bhatt also serves as a Board Member of Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., CoreRx Pharma and Spectra Medical Devices. In June 2015, Mr. Bhatt founded Proximare Lifesciences Fund. Mr. Bhatt pursued a Bachelor of Arts at Boston University with a major in Biology.

Mr. Tuder has served as a member of the Board since the Closing Date. Mr. Tuder is currently an Operating Partner of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC, having joined in September 2020. He also founded Tremson Capital Management, LLC in January 2015 to invest in undervalued public equities and to make private equity and credit investments in partnership with a number of family offices. Mr. Tuder also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Concord II and is a Co-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of each of Digital Asset Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DAAQ) and Space Asset Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SAAQ). In addition, Mr. Tuder was the Chief Executive Officer of each of Concord Acquisition Corp and Concord Acquisition Corp III from 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2024, respectively, and Chief Financial Officer of Real Asset Acquisition Corp from 2025 to 2026. In addition, Mr. Tuder has served on the board of directors of Inseego Corporation (NYSE: INSG), since April 2017, where he is Chairman of the Board and Audit Committee. Mr. Tuder has also served on the board of directors of GCT Semiconductor (NYSE: GCTS) since March 2023, where he serves on the Compensation Committee, and has served on the Board of Directors of IQM Quantum Computers OY (Nasdaq: IQMX) since July 2026, where he is Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Tuder held various investment positions at JHL Capital Group, KSA Capital Management, and CapitalSource Finance. Mr. Tuder began his career as a private equity professional at Fortress Investment Group, Nassau Capital, and ABS Capital Partners. Mr. Tuder received a B.A. in English Literature from Yale College.

Albert Dyrness is expected to serve as a member of Pubco Board following the Closing. Mr. Dyrness is a recognized biopharmaceutical industry expert in bio-process engineering with expertise in upstream, downstream, and fill/finish processes. Since July 2019, Mr. Dyrness has been the Managing Director of ADVENT Engineering Services, Inc., a Trinity Consultants Company, which serves as its life-sciences division. In 1988, Mr. Dyrness Co-Founded ADVENT Engineering Services, Inc., an engineering consulting firm serving the energy and life sciences industries. Starting with only 4 employees in the San Francisco Bay Area, ADVENT has grown to a staff of over 130 engineers with offices in Toronto, Canada, Singapore, Raleigh, North Carolina, Portland Oregon, Boston, Massachusetts, Irvine and San Ramon, California. In 2016, Mr. Dyrness became President and Chief Technical Officer of ADVENT and, in 2017, guided the company to a merger with Trinity Consultants, a 700-person engineering consulting firm. He also served as a member of the board of directors of Oncobiologics, Inc. (now Outlook Therapeutics, Inc.; Nasdaq: OTLK) from December 2015 to September 2017. In 1986, Mr. Dyrness graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied mechanical engineering and entrepreneurism. Mr. Albert Dyrness will retire from the Board upon election of his successor at the annual meeting.

Mr. Sonnenfeld has served as the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs and the Lester Crown Professor-in-the-Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management since 2001. In 1989, Mr. Sonnenfeld founded the Chief Executive Leadership Institute of Yale University, the world's first CEO College, and he has served as its President since that time. Previously, Mr. Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. Recently, Mr. Sonnenfeld was named by Business Week as one of the world's ten most influential business school professors. He has chaired several blue-ribbon commissions for the National Association of Corporate Directors, and the NACD's Directorship magazine recently named him one of the 100 most influential figures in governance. Mr. Sonnenfeld was recognized by Poets & Quants Magazine as the 2022 Professor of the Year in recognition of his high-profile efforts to catalyze the historic exits from Russia of over 1,000+ global businesses after the invasion of Ukraine and was named to Worth Magazine's Worthy 100 Leaders, an annual global listing of the most influential leaders across society. Mr. Sonnenfeld was also presented the 2023 Greatest Impact on Corporate Boards award by Corporate Board Member magazine and is the recipient of the Academy of Management's 2023 Award for Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner. Corporate Board Member magazine has also awarded Mr. Sonnenfeld its Most Influential Voice award. He was awarded the Ellis Island Medal in 2018 by the US Ellis Island Foundation and awarded many scholarly honors for the impact of his many research articles on leadership and governance matters. In addition to his post as a regular commentator for CNBC, he is a columnist for Fortune, a regular commentator on PBS's Nightly Business Report, and a frequently cited management expert in the global media. Mr. Sonnenfeld's columns also regularly appear in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times. Mr. Sonnenfeld serves on the Board of Directors, as well as the Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, of Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN). He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of IEX Exchange, and a senior advisor of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC. Mr. Sonnenfeld received an A.B. degree in Psychology, a M.B.A. degree and D.B.A. degree in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University.