Team

We have a cohesive team that has worked together in the past and combines senior level operational experience with finance professionals who have extensive transactional, valuation, capital allocation, and SPAC investing expertise. Our combined network for sourcing targets gives us access to venture capital, private equity, and public companies considering SPAC/spinoff combinations. We are founder-friendly and seek to partner with a proven, exceptional management team that is already in place, rather than become involved in or replace management.

Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III Team

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Michael Blitzer, Chairman & CEO

Michael Blitzer has been our Chairman and CEO since October 2024. He served as CEO and director of IPXX from March 2023 to March 2025 and previously served as co-CEO and director of IPAX from February 2021 to February 2023. He currently sits on the board of directors and audit committee of Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) and is the chair of the board of directors of USA Rare Earth, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAR).

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Kevin Shannon, COO

Kevin Shannon has been our COO since November 2024. He served as Chief of Staff of IPXX from March 2023 to March 2025 and previously served as Chief of Staff of IPAX from March 2021 to February 2023. In his role as Chief of Staff for IPXX and IPAX, Mr. Shannon was an active participant in all target search, negotiation, and due diligence workstreams.

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Peter Ondishin, CFO

Peter Ondishin has been our CFO since November 2024. He has served as CFO of IPXX from March 2023 to March 2025, and he was previously an employee of IPAX. Mr. Ondishin has been the CFO of The Venture Collective since June 2023. He was previously the CFO of Kingstown Capital Management from August 2020 to December 2023 and the Controller of Kingstown from April 2019 to August 2020.

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Daniel J. Hoffman, Director

Daniel Hoffman is a member of our board of directors. He is the Founder and CEO of The Monday Group, a multi-family network investing in a broad variety of assets, which he founded in May 2023. Mr. Hoffman has been a director of Rithm Property Trust Inc. (NYSE: RPT), a real estate investment trust formerly known as Great Ajax Corp., since June 2024, where he also previously served as a director from June 2014 to June 2016, including as chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and a member of the audit committee and the compensation committee.

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Dr. Kamal Ghaffarian, Director

Dr. Kamal Ghaffarian is a member of our board of directors. Throughout his 35-plus year career, Dr. Ghaffarian has created multiple successful companies and has extensive experience working at the intersection of government contracting and technological innovation.

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William Denkin, Director

William Denkin is a member of our board of directors. Since April 2019, Mr. Denkin has been retired and managing his personal investments. Mr. Denkin served as Managing Director at Cowen and Company from April 2016 to April 2019. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director at CRT Capital Group (f/k/a Credit Research Trading) from June 1994 to April 2016.

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Noah G. Levy, Director

Noah Levy is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Levy has been a managing member and portfolio manager at Newtyn Management, LLC, an investment firm, since June 2011.

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Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II Team

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Mike Blitzer, Chairman and CEO

Mike Blitzer has been our Chairman and CEO since March 2023, having previously served as co-CEO and director of IPAX from February 2021 to February 2023. Mike is the founder and co-CEO of Kingstown Capital Management, which he founded in 2006 and grew to a multi-billion asset manager with some of the world’s largest endowments and foundations as clients. Over 17 years, Kingstown has invested in public and private equities, SPACs, PIPEs, and derivatives.

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Nick Shekerdemian, Director

Nick Shekerdemian is a member of our board of directors. Nick has previously served as a director of IPAX from February 2021 to February 2023. Nick is the Founding Partner of The Venture Collective, a venture capital firm founded in October 2019 focused on solving the world’s largest problems. The Venture Collective is backed by a series of exited founders, hedge fund managers and Fortune 500 executives and has invested in the likes of Axiom Space, Infogrid, Builder.ai, LifeBiosciences and HelixNano.

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Paula Sutter, Director

Paula Sutter is a member of our board of directors. Paula previously served as Executive Chairwoman on IPAX from February 2021 to February 2023. Paula began her career over 25 years ago at the Donna Karan Company serving in a variety of roles. She currently serves on the board of ThredUp Inc. (“ThredUp”), a high-growth re-commerce platform backed by Goldman Sachs and Park West.

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Elliot Richmond, Director

Elliot Richmond is a member of our board of directors. Elliot has been the CFO and a director of Ahren Acquisition Corp. since April 2021. Elliot has had a successful 20-year career in investment banking, during which he was honored by Financial News’ “40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Investment Banking”. He was previously a Partner and Managing Director at Moelis & Company (from 2012 to 2019).

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Sam Sayegh, Director

Sam Sayegh is a member of our board of directors. Sam is the co-founder of UNCAP Investment Management, an alternative investment firm focused on the digital assets and blockchain space founded in 2021. He is also a shareholder in the management companies of other alternative asset managers.

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Erica Dorfman, Director

Erica Dorfman is a member of our board of directors. Erica currently serves as of Brex’s Head of Global Financial Products and is responsible for the development of financial products spanning cards, payments, cash movement, reimbursements, credit limits, billing, and pricing. She was previously the President of Brex Cash from 2019-2022 and led Brex’s application for a bank charter.

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Peter Ondishin, CFO

Peter Ondishin has been our CFO since April 2023, and he was previously an employee of IPAX. Peter has been the CFO of Kingstown Capital Management since August 2020, and he was previously the Controller of Kingstown from April 2019 to August 2020. Beginning in June 2023, Peter will be the CFO of The Venture Collective.

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Kevin Shannon, Chief of Staff

Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. Team

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Paula Sutter, Chairwoman

Paula has been our Executive Chairwoman since February 2021. she began her career over 25 years go at the Donna Karan Company serving in a variety of roles. She currently serves on the board of ThredUp Inc. (“ThredUp”), a high-growth re-commerce platform backed by Goldman Sachs and Park West.
paula@paulasutter.com

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Mike Blitzer, Co-CEO

Mike has been our co-CEO since February 2021 and a Director since January 2021. He is the founder and co-CIO of Kingstown Capital Management, which he founded in 2006 with less than $5 million of capital and grew to a multi-billion asset manager with some of the world’s largest endowments and foundations as clients.
blitzer@kingstowncapital.com

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Guy Shanon, CFA, Co-CEO

Guy has been our co-CEO and a director since February 2021. He is co-CIO of Kingstown Capital Management, where he co-manages the firm’s portfolio and directs research efforts related to Kingstown’s special situation investment strategy.
guy@kingstowncapital.com

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Brian Pitz, CFO

Brian has been our Chief Financial Officer and a director since February 2021. He is Founder & CEO of Amagansett Technology Capital Partners LLC, a deep relationship and data-driven boutique advisor focused on public and private technology companies at all stages.
brian@amtechcapitalpartners.com

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Nick Shekerdemian, Director

Nick has been a director since February 2021. He is the Founding Partner of The Venture Collective, a venture capital firm focused on the intersection between transformational technology and deep positive impact.
nick@theventurecollective.com

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Erin Clift, Special Advisor

Erin serves as a Special Advisor. She currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Waze, the world’s largest community based navigation platform fueled by over 140 million active Wazers in more than 185 countries.
erin.clift@gmail.com

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Kevin Shannon, Chief of Staff