We intend to focus our search on companies operating in the technology, media, telecommunications (“TMT”) and FinTech sectors that are headquartered in Europe, Israel, the Middle East or North America.

Makram Azar, our CEO, has over 30 years of investment banking and private equity experience. He is the CEO and a director of Full Circle Capital Limited, a private investment and advisory group, which he founded in 2019. Previously, he was at Barclays Bank PLC from 2010 to 2019, where he served as chairman of banking EMEA and chairman of Barclays Bank PLC, MENA. He previously was a managing director and the head of MENA for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. from 2008 to 2010. Before joining KKR, Mr. Azar spent 18 years at Lehman Brothers, where he was the global head of sovereign wealth funds, and chairman of media investment banking EMEA.

(Note: Golden Falcon Acquisition upsized its IPO to 30 million units, from 25 million in the prospectus, at $10 each to raise $300 million.)