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(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
We are a blank check company. We will not be limited to target businesses in any specific industry or geographic location but intend to focus mainly on companies in the United States and on industries in which our officers and directors have had significant experience throughout their careers, which include, among others, energy, food/agri-tech, mining and metals, telecoms, financial services/fintech, natural resources, sports & entertainment, healthcare and technology.
Christophe Charlier has been serving as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since May 2025. Mr. Charlier is an international financier with 30 years of experience in investment banking, private equity and international management. Throughout his career he has acted as principal or advised on a number of landmark transactions in the telecom, financial services, natural resources, energy and sports and entertainment industries across developed and emerging markets. These experiences have enabled him to develop strong, personal relations with private equity and public market investors and senior management at private equity and investments banks in the United States and Europe, which will be critical to our firm’s efforts to identify and evaluate targets and negotiate a business combination on attractive terms.
Mr. Charlier has extensive public market and SPAC experience, currently serving as an independent director of Tavia Acquisition Corp., a SPAC seeking to consummate a business combination, and La Française de l’Energie, a publicly held French clean energy production company, as well as having served as an independent director of Oxus Acquisition Corp., which successfully completed a business combination in February 2024.
Mr. Charlier served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Renaissance Capital, an investment bank specialized in emerging and frontier markets, from April 2017 to March 2020. As Chairman, Mr. Charlier coordinated the work of Renaissance Capital’s board of directors and oversaw strategic development, the global brand, and relationships with key clients and stakeholders globally. Previously, Mr. Charlier served as deputy Chief Executive Officer of Onexim Group, a private equity fund founded by Mikhail Prokhorov in Moscow from September 2008 to June 2014. In this capacity, he served on the boards of directors of several of Russia’s largest companies, some of which were listed on international exchanges, and on the boards of several mid-size companies and startups in Onexim’s portfolio.
Mr. Charlier also acted as Chairman and Alternate Governor of the NBA’s Nets franchise from 2010 to 2014, its last two seasons in New Jersey and first two in Barclays Center in Brooklyn. He remained as a director of the Nets and Barclays Center until Mr. Prokhorov’s sale of both to Joe Tsai in 2018 and 2019.
From February 2002 to March 2004, Mr. Charlier was Director of Strategic development and M&A of Norilsk Nickel, a publicly held Russian company, where, among other transactions and developments, he led its acquisition of strategic stakes in Stillwater Mining Company and Gold Fields. He also actively participated in the acquisitions which led to the creation of Polyus Gold, Russia’s largest gold company.
Mr. Charlier started his investment banking career in 1995 at JPMorgan in the M&A Group in New York.
Jennifer Calabrese has been serving as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2025. Ms. Calabrese is the founder and CEO of Calabrese Consulting, LLC (“CCL”). Founded in 2012, CCL is a minority/woman-owned, full-service accounting and financial reporting advisory firm with over 50 employees, serving clients around the world. CCL specializes in SEC financial reporting, compliance, and consulting services to facilitate the reporting between auditors and public/private companies on behalf of clients. Ms. Calabrese also currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Athena Technology Acquisition Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company which recently entered into a business combination agreement with Ace Green Recycling, Inc., and is also on the Audit Committee of Marpai, Inc., a company which provides administration services to self-insured employer groups across the United States. She previously spent several years working for several publicly traded companies, serving in various roles including as Corporate Controller, Director of Accounting and SEC Reporting, Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer.
Beginning her career at KPMG, LLP, Ms. Calabrese held numerous positions, including senior audit manager.
(Note: Lafayette Acquisition Corp. priced its SPAC IPO in sync with the terms in the prospectus – 10 million units at $10.00 each – to raise $100 million on Thursday night, Sept. 23, 2025. Each unit consists of one ordinary share and one right entitling the holder to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one ordinary share upon the completion of a business combination. Background: Lafayette Acquisition Corp. filed its F-1 for its SPAC IPO on Sept. 5, 2025, and disclosed the terms: 10 million units at $10.00 each to raise $100 million.)
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