Betty Liu, a former executive of the ICE (InterContinental Exchange), is the president and CEO of this new blank-check company, or special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

D & Z Media Acquisition intends to focus on companies related to media, education technology (“ed-tech”), and other related industries.

Ms. Liu most recently served as the executive vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. From 2007 to 2018, Ms. Liu was an award-winning business journalist, serving as a leading anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio (“Bloomberg”) in New York City. Before 2007, she was the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, served as the Taiwan Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires, and separately was their Hong Kong-based regional correspondent. In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis. Ms. Liu earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

(Note: D&Z Media Acquisition priced its IPO on Jan. 25, 2021, according to its prospectus terms – 25 million units at $10 each to raise $250 million.)