We will seek to capitalize on the more than 46 years of combined financing and investment experience of our founders, G. Raymond Zage III and Ashish Gupta.

G. Raymond Zage III has over 26 years of corporate finance and investing experience across a wide range of industries and regions. Mr. Zage was the managing director and CEO of Farallon Capital Asia Pte Ltd, which manages capital on behalf of Farallon Capital Management LLC (together with Farallon Capital Asia Pte Ltd “Farallon”), one of the largest hedge funds in the world. Mr. Zage managed Asian investments for Farallon from San Francisco and London before establishing its office in Singapore in 2002. 

In 2017, Mr. Zage started Tiga Investments Pte Ltd (“Tiga”) as a permanent capital vehicle to leverage his deep global relationships and special situations expertise to invest in differentiated businesses with strong management teams and build long-term value in such businesses.

Ashish Gupta has over 20 years of corporate finance and investing experience across industries such as financial services, technology, media, natural resources and infrastructure. Mr. Gupta joined Farallon in 2007 and worked with Mr. Zage on most of the private investments done by Farallon from 2007 to 2019. Mr. Gupta led a number of transactions in private equity, private credit and restructuring. Mr. Gupta became a managing director at Farallon in 2010 and partner in 2015. Mr. Gupta joined Tiga in 2019.

(Note: This SPAC IPO was upsized at pricing – 24 million units (vs. 20 million in the prospectus) were priced at $10 each.)