We intend to focus our search for a target business by concentrating our efforts in identifying high-quality businesses with transformative technologies for industrial applications.

Our CEO, Dr. Whitney Haring-Smith, is a co-founder and managing partner of Anzu Partners. Our sponsor is an affiliate of Anzu Partners, founder in 2014. Anzu Partners is an investment firm that focuses on industrial and life sciences technology companies with the potential to transform their industries. Dr. Haring-Smith was the co-founder and board chairman of College Abacus, a website that became the “Kayak.com of college financial aid” in the United States. From 2012 to 2014, College Abacus was featured in The New York Times, CNN Money, Yahoo Finance, CBS News, Fox Business, and other publications. In 2014, College Abacus was acquired by ECMC. Dr. Haring-Smith earned his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Our chairman is William Wulfsohn. He  is the former CEO and chairman of Ashland Global Holdings, Inc., where he led Ashland’s transition to a focused specialty chemicals company and oversaw multiple spinouts and divestitures. This included the successful $5.3 billion separation of Valvoline, where Mr. Wulfsohn served as the founding chairman for the first year.

(Note: Anzu Special Acquisition Corp. I further upsized its SPAC IPO at pricing on March 1, 2021: 42 million units, up from 35 million, at $10 each to raise $420 million. The deal had been increased by 40 percent to 35 million units, up from 25 million initially, at $10 each in an S-1/A filing dated Feb. 19, 2021.)