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Roman DBDR Acquisition II is a newly organized blank check company, also known as a SPAC. (Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
We intend to focus our initial search on companies in the cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (“AI”) or financial technology (“FinTech”) industries.
Dixon Doll, Jr. has served as our CEO and a director since inception. Mr. Doll was the founder and co-CEO of Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. (“Roman DBDR I”) from August 2020 through April 2023. Mr. Doll guided Roman DBDR I through its successful business combination with CompoSecure (Nasdaq: CMPO), a leading payment cards company. Mr. Doll is a private investor in Silicon Valley acting as managing director at Longstreet Ventures, Inc., a venture seed fund and incubator since 2003. He has invested in numerous startups in the FinTech, media and sports industries. He is also a limited partner in Lightshed Ventures, an early-stage media and telecom venture fund based in New York, and an investor in Venezia, FC and the Bay Area TGL sports team. Mr. Doll is also a limited partner in Avenue Sports Fund, a fund operated by Mark Lasry that invests in professional sports franchises. In addition, he is a limited partner in multiple DCM Funds since 2002. He is also a limited partner in Ten Eleven Ventures, a cybersecurity fund backed by KKR. He is an investor in Focus Ventures, a fund to funds firm that has invested directly in several of the top funds in Silicon Valley, including TCV, Shasta, Sierra Venture, Founders Circle and Menlo Ventures. He is also a limited partner in Montage Capital, a debt equity fund, in Silicon Valley since 2012.
Mr. Doll formerly served as the CEO and founder of DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. from January 2016 through its acquisition by Nasuni in May 2022. From July 2009 to January 2014, Mr. Doll served as the COO and as a director of Violin Memory, Inc. which went public on the NYSE in 2013. He has also previously worked as the senior vice president of sales and corporate development at FusionIO from February 2008 to February 2009 where he also invested in the seed stage. Fusion listed on the NYSE in 2011. He was vice president of corporate development of NEON, a leading public middleware company from May 1998 to July 2001. when it was acquired by Sybase. He was vice president of corporate development of Recourse Technologies from July 2001 to August 2002, and he was a business development manager at Oracle Alliances Division from September 1994 to May 1998. Mr. Doll received his BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School.
John C. Small has served as our CFO since inception. Mr. Small also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Roman DBDR I and currently is the Chief Financial Officer of AI Advertising, Inc. (OTC: AIAD) and BigWattDigital LLC, a privately held bitcoin miner. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Monsoon Blockchain Corporation from December 2019 until January 2022, the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Quanterra Capital Management LP from May 2019 until December 2020, the Chief Operating Officer of Diamond Standard from January 2021 to June 2021, the senior vice president of finance for Tsunami XR from October 2016 to May 2019, the chief operating officer of Mode Media from April 2016 to September 2016, and the Chief Financial Officer of Viggle, Inc. (Nasdaq: VGGL) from September 2012 to October 2015. Mr. Small joined GLG Partners in 2000 as a senior asset manager responsible for Telecom, Media, Technology and Renewable Energy investments for the GLG North American Opportunity Fund. He also served as the president of the GLG North America office from April 2000 to August 2011. He worked as a Telecom and Media analyst at Ulysses Management from January 1997 to March 2000 and as a Telecom analyst at Odyssey Partners from March 1996 to January 1997. He also worked as an equity research analyst at Dillon Read (from January 1992 to September 1993) and Morgan Stanley (from October 1993 to February 1996). Mr. Small has previously served as a director of Loyalty Alliance, Inc., PayEase Ltd., INFINIA Corporation, ViSole Energy, Inc., New Millennium Solar Equipment Co, ShortList Media Ltd, DraftDay Inc., and Spinvox Ltd.
Dr. Donald G. Basile has served as our Chief Technology Officer since inception. Dr. Basile has served as an executive, investor or board member in Silicon Valley companies for over 20 years. Dr. Basile also served as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive for Roman DBDR I, from August 2020 through April 2023. Dr. Basile guided Roman DBDR I through its successful business combination with CompoSecure (Nasdaq: CMPO), a leading payment cards company. Dr. Basile has also served as an executive officer and director at Monsoon Blockchain Corporation since November 2019. Dr. Basile has been a board member of the Hudson Valley Fast Fab since May 2024, one of the companies working to onshore silicon manufacturing and sensor development to the United States. Dr. Basile has been an investor in Silicon Valley venture stage companies since 1999 through various private vehicles. Dr. Basile previously served as a director of Violin Memory, Inc. from April 2009 to January 2014 and as its Chief Executive Officer from April 2009 to December 2013. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of FusionIO from January 2008 to March 2009 and as its Chairman from July 2006 to March 2009. Dr. Basile previously worked at AT&T Bell Labs, IBM, United Health Group and Lenfest Group (acquired by Comcast) and served as managing director of Raza Foundries and vice president of Raza Microelectonics (RMI).
(Note: Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II filed its S-1 for its SPAC IPO on Sept. 17, 2024, and disclosed terms: 20.0 million units at $10.00 each to raise $200.0 million. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant.)
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