We intend to concentrate our efforts identifying those businesses engaged with emerging and transformational technologies, focusing particularly on businesses operating within (1) space, defense and communications and (2) advanced air mobility and logistics industries, or the target industries. (Incorporated in the Cayman Islands.)

Our chairman and CEO is Dennis Muilenberg, the former chairman, president and CEO of The Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA). Travis Nelson, the managing member of Eclipse Investors, is our CFO, co-president and director. Kirsten Bartok Touw, the founder and managing partner of AirFinance, is our COO, co-president and director.

Our directors include Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, Ret., a retired 4-star U.S. Air Force General with over 39 years of military service. Gen. Wilson has extensive operational experience, including commanding the largest Wing in the Middle East and commanding and reinvigorating America’s nuclear Bombers and Missile forces in Global Strike Command before assuming his duties as the 39th Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

Our advisors include Chris Cassidy, a U.S. Navy SEAL and former NASA chief astronaut. Mr. Cassidy was selected as an astronaut in 2004; he is a veteran of three space flights and 10 space walks. Before he joined NASA, Mr. Cassidy led SEALs in four six-month deployments. He served as Executive Officer and Operations Officer of Special Boat Team Twenty, and SEAL platoon commander at SEAL Team THREE and SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team TWO. Mr. Cassidy has been awarded a Bronze Star with combat ‘V,’ a second Bronze Star for combat leadership service in Afghanistan, and a Presidential Unit Citation. 

(Note: New Vista Acquisition upsized its IPO at pricing on Feb. 16, 2021, to 24 million units, up from 20 million, at $10 each to raise $240 million.)