Fast Radius, Inc. (“Fast Radius”), a cloud manufacturing and
digital supply chain company, today announced four nominees to the
board of directors (the “Board”) of ECP Environmental Growth
Opportunities Corp. (NASDAQ: ENNV) (“ENNV”), a publicly-traded
special purpose acquisition company, in anticipation of the
previously announced proposed business combination between Fast
Radius and ENNV. The Board nominees will serve on the Board of the
combined company following the consummation of the business
combination, subject to ENNV stockholder approval. The business
combination is expected to be completed in the first quarter of
2022.
The following individuals have been nominated to serve
on the Board:
- Matt Maloney, Former CEO and Founder of Grubhub
- Betsy Ziegler, CEO of 1871
- Matt Flanigan, Board Member at Jack Henry & Associates and
Performance Food Group; and
- Steve Koch, Managing Director of Bowline Group and Managing
Partner of mHUB Product Impact Fund I
Commenting on the Board nominees, Lou Rassey, Co-Founder and CEO
of Fast Radius said, “These highly-qualified leaders bring decades
of knowledge across global manufacturing, technology, financial
services, corporate development, governance and M&A. We expect
their ability to innovate and disrupt industries, along with their
expertise using software and technology to scale organizations,
will support our growth as a public company. I would like to thank
the director nominees for their confidence in Fast Radius’ future
and business strategy, and I, along with the entire Fast Radius
team, look forward to working with them.”
The nominees are expected to serve on the Board of the combined
company following the business combination, along with the
following previously announced director nominees: Lou Rassey, CEO
and Co-Founder of Fast Radius; Tyler Reeder, President and Chief
Executive Officer of ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp.;
Nick Solaro, General Partner at Drive Capital.
Additional Information on Board Nominees:
Matthew Maloney
Matthew Maloney served as Chief Executive Officer and director
of GrubHub Inc. (NASDAQ: GRUB) (“GrubHub”) from August 2013 to
December 2021, and as GrubHub’s President from August 2015 to
January 2018. Prior to August 2013, Mr. Maloney served as CEO and a
member of the board of directors of GrubHub Holdings, a company he
co-founded in 2004. Mr. Maloney led GrubHub Holdings through five
rounds of investment funding, the acquisition of DotMenu, its
merger with Seamless Holdings Corporations in April 2013, and
GrubHub’s initial public offering in April 2014. Mr. Maloney
currently serves as an advisory board member for The University of
Chicago Booth School of Business Polsky Center for
Entrepreneurship. He is a member of ChicagoNEXT, an organization
dedicated to driving growth and opportunity in the Chicago business
community. Mr. Maloney holds a B.A. from Michigan State University
and an MBA and MSCS from the University of Chicago.
Betsy Ziegler
Betsy Ziegler is the CEO of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial
Center (DBA 1871), a private incubator serving founders and
innovators, a position she has held since joining 1871 in April
2018. Prior to joining 1871, Ms. Ziegler served in two different
Associate Dean roles at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of
Management. Most recently, Ms. Ziegler served as Associate Dean,
Chief Innovation Officer, from April 2016 to March 2018. Prior to
that, she served as Associate Dean of Degree Programs and Dean of
Students from June 2011 to April 2016. Previously, Ms. Ziegler
spent 12 years at McKinsey and Company where she was a partner in
the Chicago office, spending most of her time serving financial
institutions at the intersection of operations and technology. Ms.
Ziegler is an active civic leader in Chicago, and serves on the
boards of Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, Choose Chicago,
and Stanley Manne Research Institute at the Ann and Robert H Lurie
Children’s Hospital. Ms. Ziegler received her MBA from Harvard
Business School and her B.A. in Economics from The Ohio State
University.
Matthew Flanigan
Matthew Flanigan retired in May 2019 from his role as Executive
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Leggett &
Platt, Incorporated (NYSE: LEG) (“Leggett”), a leading manufacturer
of engineered components, where he also served on the Board of
Directors for nine years. Mr. Flanigan served as Chief Financial
Officer of Leggett from 2003 to May 2019. He previously served
Leggett as Executive Vice President from 2013 to 2019, Senior Vice
President from 2003 to 2005, Vice President and President of the
Office Furniture Components Group from 1999 to 2003, and in various
capacities since 1997. Prior to joining Leggett in 1997, Mr.
Flanigan was employed in the banking industry for 13 years, the
last ten of which as First Vice President and Manager for Societe
Generale S.A. in Dallas. Mr. Flanigan currently serves as a
director of Performance Food Group Company (NYSE: PFGC), one of the
nation’s largest food distribution businesses and as the lead
director of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY), a
SaaS, cloud-based solutions provider primarily for the financial
services industry. Mr. Flanigan holds a degree in finance and
business administration from the University of Missouri.
Steven Koch
Steven Koch is the Managing Director of Bowline Group and a
Managing Partner of the mHUB Product Impact Fund I, positions he
has held since 2018 and 2020, respectively. Previously, he served
as the Co-Executive Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer of
Motivate, a leading bike share company in North America, from
January 2018 to November 2018, at which point Lyft acquired
Motivate. From September 2012 to August 2017, he served as the
Deputy Mayor of Chicago. Previously, Mr. Koch spent 27 years at
Credit Suisse serving in various capacities, including co-chairman
of the global mergers and acquisitions business. Mr. Koch currently
sits on the boards of the Chicago Community Trust, mHUB, the
Greater Chicago Food Depository, Navy Pier Inc., The Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, Naturally Chicago, The Southland
Development Authority, The James Beard Foundation and the visiting
committee of the University of Chicago Law School. He helped
develop and teaches in the Directors’ Consortium, a training
seminar for directors of public companies, sponsored by the
University of Chicago and Stanford University. Mr. Koch received
his BA from Hampshire College, his MBA from the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business and his JD, cum laude, from the
University of Chicago Law School.
Information on Other Director Nominees:
Lou Rassey
Lou Rassey has served as Chief Executive Officer and co-founder
of Fast Radius since 2017. Mr. Rassey has a 20-plus-year career
driving innovation in the manufacturing sector and is a recognized
leader on matters related to manufacturing, industrial innovation
and competitiveness. Prior to co-founding Fast Radius, Mr. Rassey
was a Partner at McKinsey & Company from 2003 to 2015 where he
co-led the firm’s global research and advisory efforts on the
“Future of Manufacturing.” Mr. Rassey has helped Fortune 100
executives, start-ups and government leaders in developing and
executing strategies to compete in the digital industrial age. He
also founded in 2016 and is a managing member at Two Roads Group,
LLC, an industrial-tech-focused advisory and investment firm and
spent the first chapter of his career in engineering and
manufacturing in the auto industry. Mr. Rassey has an MBA and MS in
Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he was an LFM Fellow, a MS
from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and BS from the
University of Notre Dame.
Tyler Reeder
Since October 2020, Tyler Reeder has served as the President and
Chief Executive Officer of ENNV and as a member of the ENNV Board.
Mr. Reeder is a Managing Partner of Energy Capital Partners
Holdings LP (“ECP”) and serves on ECP’s Partnership Committee,
Investment Committee, Strategy Committee, Operating Committee, ESG
Committee and Valuation Committee. Mr. Reeder participates in
overall investment management, strategic planning and operations of
ECP and its funds. He is involved in all areas of the firm’s
investment activities, with a particular emphasis on power
generation, renewables and environmental infrastructure. Mr. Reeder
led the recent take-private acquisition of Calpine and currently
serves on the boards of Calpine, Gopher, EnergySolutions,
Convergent, Heartland Generation and Liberty Recycling, LP. Prior
to realization, he served on the boards of Wheelabrator, ADA Carbon
Solutions, LLC, Dynegy Inc., EquiPower Resources Corp., Broad River
Power Holdings, LLC, CE2 Carbon Capital, LLC and Empire Gen
Holdings, Inc. Prior to joining ECP in 2006, Mr. Reeder was a Vice
President of Power and Fuel Markets of Texas Genco, LLC. Mr. Reeder
was an advisor on the acquisition of Texas Genco, LLC by a
consortium of private equity firms and became a member of the
management team until the sale of the company to NRG Energy in
2006. While at Texas Genco, LLC, Mr. Reeder was the head of the
asset optimization desk and was responsible for managing the power
and fuel positions for their large generation portfolio. From 1998
to 2002, Mr. Reeder was a Director for Energy Markets and a Finance
Manager at Orion Power Holdings, Inc., where he was responsible for
acquisitions, power marketing, transaction analysis and execution.
From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Reeder worked at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Reeder
received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Colgate
University.
Nick Solaro
Nick Solaro has served as General Partner at Drive Capital since
2014. Prior to joining Drive Capital, Mr. Solaro served as a
manager at Google, where he helped lead the Global Android
Strategic Partnerships team, from 2010 to 2014. During Mr. Solaro’s
tenure at Google, the Android ecosystem grew from a few devices in
a few markets to one of the world’s most dominant mobile operating
system running on billions of handsets worldwide. Prior to joining
Google, Mr. Solaro was a co-founder of PetWave.com, an online
veterinary health startup based in San Francisco, which he
co-founded in 2007. Mr. Solaro has also previously spent time as a
technology investor at Technology Crossover Ventures, as well as an
Equity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs where he covered large cap
enterprise technology companies including Apple, IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Sun, and Dell. Mr. Solaro graduated from
Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy.
About Fast Radius, Inc.Fast Radius, Inc. is a
leading cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company. The
Cloud Manufacturing Platform™ from Fast Radius is a
first-of-its-kind solution that integrates design, production, and
fulfillment operations through a common digital infrastructure to
make manufacturing easier, more accessible, and more sustainable.
Founded in 2017, Fast Radius, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago with
offices in Atlanta, Louisville, and Singapore and microfactories in
Chicago and at the UPS Worldport facility in Louisville, KY. Fast
Radius announced on July 19, 2021, the intent to merge with ECP
Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. (NASDAQ: ENNV), a special
purpose acquisition corporation, which would result in Fast Radius
becoming a public company.
About ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities
Corp.ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. is a
special purpose acquisition company formed by Energy Capital
Partners Management, LP for the purpose of entering into a merger,
stock purchase, or similar business combination with one or more
businesses. The strategy of ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities
Corp. is to identify and acquire businesses located in North
America that concentrate on combating climate change by decreasing
the carbon intensity of energy production, increasing the
efficiency of industrial and consumer-related activities, expanding
electricity storage and distribution, and improving the overall
sustainability of the economy through efforts to lower pollution
and increase beneficial reuse. For more information, visit
ecpennv.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the federal securities laws with respect to
the proposed business combination (the “Transaction”) between Fast
Radius and ENNV. These forward-looking statements generally are
identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,”
“anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “scales,”
“representative of,” “valuation,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “may,”
“should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely
result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are
predictions, projections and other statements about future events
that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a
result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could
cause actual future events to differ materially from the
forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not
limited to: (i) the results of ENNV’s special meeting of
stockholders to approve, among other things, the election of the
director nominees, (ii) the risk that the Transactio may not
completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect
the price of ENNV’s securities, (iii) the risk that the Transaction
may not be completed by ENNV’s business combination deadline and
the potential failure to obtain an extension of the business
combination deadline if sought by ENNV, (iv) the failure to satisfy
the conditions to the consummation of the Transaction, including
the requisite approvals of ENNV’s and Fast Radius’ stockholders,
the satisfaction of the minimum trust account amount following any
redemptions by ENNV’s public stockholders and the receipt of
certain governmental and regulatory approvals, (v) the lack of a
third party valuation in determining whether or not to pursue the
Transaction, (vi) the risk that ENNV’s proposed private offering of
public equity is not completed, (vii) the occurrence of any event,
change or other circumstance that could give rise to the
termination of the agreement and plan of merger (the “Merger
Agreement”) relating to the Transaction, (viii) the effect of the
announcement or pendency of the Transaction on Fast Radius’
business or employee relationships, operating results and business
generally, (ix) the risk that the Transaction disrupts current
plans and operations of Fast Radius, (x) the risk of difficulties
in retaining employees of Fast Radius as a result of the
Transaction, (xi) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be
instituted against Fast Radius or against ENNV related to the
Merger Agreement or the Transaction, (xii) the ability to maintain
the listing of ENNV’s securities on a national securities exchange,
(xiii) changes in the competitive industries in which Fast Radius
operates, variations in operating performance across competitors,
changes in laws and regulations affecting Fast Radius’ business and
changes in the combined capital structure, (xiv) the ability to
implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after
the completion of the Transaction, and the ability to identify and
realize additional opportunities, (xv) risks related to the
uncertainty of Fast Radius’ projected financial information, (xvi)
risks related to Fast Radius’ potential inability to become
profitable and generate cash, (xvii) current and future conditions
in the global economy, including as a result of the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic, (xviii) the risk that demand for Fast Radius’
cloud manufacturing technology does not grow as expected, (xix) the
ability of Fast Radius to retain existing customers and attract new
customers, (xx) the potential inability of Fast Radius to manage
growth effectively, (xxi) the potential inability of Fast Radius
increase its cloud manufacturing capacity or to achieve
efficiencies regarding its cloud manufacturing process or other
costs, (xxii) the enforceability of Fast Radius’ intellectual
property rights, including its copyrights, patents, trademarks and
trade secrets, and the potential infringement on the intellectual
property rights of others, (xxiii) Fast Radius’ dependence on
senior management and other key employees, (xxiv) the risk of
downturns and a changing regulatory landscape in the highly
competitive industry in which Fast Radius operates, (xxv) the risk
that Fast Radius may require additional funding for its growth
plans and may not be able to obtain any additional financing on
terms that are acceptable to Fast Radius or at all and (xxvi) costs
related to the Transaction and the failure to realize anticipated
benefits of the Transaction or to realize estimated pro forma
results and underlying assumptions, including with respect to
estimated stockholder redemptions. The foregoing list of factors is
not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors
and the other risks and uncertainties which will be more fully
described in the “Risk Factors” section of ENNV’s Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q, the registration statement on Form S-4 and the proxy
statement/prospectus discussed below and other documents filed by
ENNV from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”). These filings identify and address other important
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results
to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date
they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on
forward-looking statements, and Fast Radius and ENNV assume no
obligation and do not intend to update or revise these
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise. Neither Fast Radius nor ENNV gives any
assurance that either Fast Radius or ENNV, or the combined company,
will achieve its expectations.
Additional Information and Where To Find It
This press release relates to the proposed Transaction between
ENNV and Fast Radius. ENNV filed a registration statement on Form
S-4 relating to the Transaction with the SEC on September 3, 2021,
as amended on October 8, 2021 and November 24, 2021 (the
“Registration Statement”), which included a proxy
statement/prospectus that will be sent to all ENNV stockholders.
ENNV will also file other documents regarding the Transaction with
the SEC. Before making any voting decision, investors and security
holders of ENNV and Fast Radius are urged to read the Registration
Statement, the proxy statement/prospectus and all other relevant
documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC in connection
with the Transaction as they become available because they will
contain important information about the Transaction. Investors and
security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the
Registration Statement, the proxy statement/prospectus, and all
other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC
by ENNV through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.
The documents filed by ENNV with the SEC also may be obtained free
of charge upon written request to ENNV at 40 Beechwood Road,
Summit, New Jersey 07901.
Participants in the Solicitation
ENNV, Fast Radius and their respective directors and executive
officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of
proxies from ENNV’s stockholders in connection with the
Transaction. A list of the names of such directors and executive
officers and information regarding their interests in the
Transaction will be included in the proxy statement/prospectus when
available. You can find more information about ENNV’s directors and
executive officers in the final prospectus relating to ENNV’s
initial public offering, which ENNV filed with the SEC on February
10, 2021. You may obtain free copies of these documents as
described in the preceding paragraph.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or
exchange or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange any
securities, nor shall there be any sale or exchange of securities
in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, sale or
exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification
under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
ContactMorgan ScottSenior Director, Public
Relations(312) 465-6345; PR@FastRadius.com
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