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(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
We are a newly organized blank check company. We may pursue an initial business combination in any business or industry but expect to focus on a technology growth company that has artificial intelligence (“AI”) tailwinds where we believe our management team and founders’ expertise will provide us with a competitive advantage.
We believe that a profound technological upheaval is shaping up in 2026 and beyond. Although the personal computer revolution and the internet radically transformed the business models and processes of all economic sectors, we believe that nothing compares to the potential changes that AI may soon bring. We believe that all industries within the global economy are bracing for the next phase of dramatic changes catalyzed by the adoption of AI.
David York, our chairman and CEO since April 2026, has been a serial financier and experienced venture capitalist for more than four decades. Mr. York is the founder and chairman of Top Tier Capital Partners (“TTCP”), a leading Silicon Valley based venture capital fund-of-funds since its inception in 2011 and served as CEO of TTCP from 2011 to 2025, where, in addition to his management responsibilities, he is a member of the Investment Committee. Mr. York has invested in over 300 venture capital funds, establishing relationships with General Partners of the largest venture capital firms in the world, while successfully scaling Top Tier Capital Partners to approximately $8 billion of assets under management (“AUM”). His thirty plus years of industry knowledge and networks equip him to be a liaison to the broader venture community. From 2000 to 2011, Mr. York was CEO, managing director, and a member of the Investment Committee at Paul Capital Investments, a subsidiary of Paul Capital Partners. In 2011, Mr. York led the spinout of Paul Capital Investments to form Top Tier Capital Partners. Before leading Paul Capital Investments, he was a managing director at Chase H&Q, where he ran the Equity Capital Markets Liquidity business. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. York ran Venture Services for Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco-based, technology-focused investment bank. Mr. York is a retired board member of the National Venture Capital Association, the voice of the US venture capital and startup community.
Clark N. Callander, our president and CFO since April 2026, has been a technology industry investment banker for most of his forty-five-year career. During his career, he has led hundreds of mergers and acquisitions, private and public financing transactions and has been actively engaged and established a breadth of relationships with the Venture Capital and Private Equity industry. He has been serving as chairman of board of directors of Napster, an innovator in spatial computing and AI, since March 2024. He is also on the Board of Advisors of six of H. Barton Asset Management fund-of-funds in the Venture Capital industry since February 2014 and co-founded a Real Estate Income Asset Management firm, Albany Road Real Estate Partners LLC, in 2012, and has been serving on its Board of Managers since August 2012. He also joined the board of directors of Sugar Bowl Resort and Development Corporation in 2018, a ski resort in Northern California, where he serves as the Chairman of the Risk Committee. In June 2003, Mr. Callander co-founded Savvian LLC, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, where he led its Capital Markets Advisory practice. He helped lead the firm through its 2008 merger with Japan’s GCA Holdings Corp. (renamed, GCA Savvian) and the combined entity’s listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He remained in the leadership of the firm through the subsequent acquisition of its European subsidiary, Altium, in 2016, and other acquisitions through to 2019. In 1993, he joined Robertson Stephens and created a new business unit, Private Capital Markets. From a founding team of two professionals, he built the business unit into a global player in the Private Capital Markets with team members in Boston, New York, Tel Aviv, London, Tokyo, and San Francisco. During Mr. Callander’s tenure at Robertson Stephens, he raised nearly $10 billion dollars of capital for over 300 pre-public and public company clients. He joined the Management Committee of Robertson Stephens in 1998 and moved to London to head European Corporate Finance in 1999. In 1986, he joined PaineWebber (now UBS), where he had various roles in M&A and Capital Markets. Throughout his career, Mr. Callander has been an active private investor, investing in dozens of companies and venture capital funds, primarily in the technology industry, and serving on the advisory boards and boards of directors of many of the companies and funds.
(Note: B&R Technology Merger Corp. filed its S-1 for its SPAC IPO on July 2, 2026, and disclosed the terms: 32.5 million units at $10.00 each to raise $325 million. Each unit consists of one share of stock and one-third of a redeemable warrant.)
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