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Karim Tabet

Founding Partner

F. Davis Terry Jr.

Founding Partner

David Lowham

Partner

Vladimir Breyter

Managing Director

James Flicker

Managing Director

Chris Gaertner

Vice Chairman and Head of Technology

Andrew Kramer

Managing Director, Head of Restructuring & Capital Advisory

Toby Pearce

Managing Director - London

Jeremy Smith

Chief Operating Officer

Philip Smith

Managing Director, Head of Industrials - London

Woody Kassis

Senior Vice President

Mac Keers

Senior Vice President

Haymen El Khouri

Vice President

Peter Hamamji

Vice President

Rabih Hasbini

Vice President

H.C. Bowen Smith

Senior Advisor

Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr.

Board Advisor

Braxton Carter

Board Advisor

Steve Collar

Board Advisor

James S. Kahan

Board Advisor

Jeffrey Keil

Board Advisor

Peter Knag

Board Advisor

Michael Leitner

Board Advisor

Ronald Lemay

Board Advisor

Stephane Roussel

Board Advisor

Senator John E. Sununu

Board Advisor

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London-based personnel are employed by TAP Securites Ltd.

All other personnel are employed by TAP Advisors LLC.

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Prior to joining TAP, Andrew Kramer¹ was a Managing Director at UBS focused on Restructuring and Capital Advisory. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Kramer held similar roles at Greenhill, Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Kramer has advised a variety of stakeholders in restructuring and capital markets transactions, including companies, creditors, and equity constituents. His experience includes engagements across a wide range of industries including energy, power, healthcare, media, technology, gaming & leisure, and general industrial concerns.

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Mr. Kramer has an M.B.A from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Brown University.

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Contact information:

akramer@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9004 (office)

Mr. Carter is the founder and CEO of Carter Companies, pursuing and managing investments in the technology, media, and telecom space.

Until July 2020, Mr. Carter served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for T-Mobile U.S., leading the financial and logistics functions of the Company. Mr. Carter was one of the key architects of the turnaround of T-Mobile and creation of the Uncarrier. He was also a key member of the team negotiating and closing the acquisition of Sprint in April 2020 and the acquisition of MetroPCS in 2013.

Mr. Carter served as Vice Chairman and CFO of MetroPCS Communications, Inc., his second wireless startup, from 2005 until the merger with T-Mobile in May 2013. From February 2001 to March 2005, he managed all corporate operations of MetroPCS, where he led and built all back-office operations including marketing, IT, customer service and logistics.

Prior to 2001, Mr. Carter served as CFO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, his first wireless startup, which ultimately became a major participant in the creation of Verizon Wireless in 2000. Subsequently, Mr. Carter was COO and CFO of the successor entity of PrimeCo Personal Communications Inc. until January 2001.

Mr. Carter also has extensive senior management experience in the retail industry and spent 10 years in public accounting. Mr. Carter serves on the boards of Assurant, Inc. and Colony Capital Inc. and previously served on the boards of Zayo Group and Research Now, Inc.

Mr. Carter is a certified public accountant. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colorado.

Mr. Gaertner¹ has 30 years of experience in underwriting, advising, and mergers and acquisitions for many leading technology companies. Prior to TAP, Mr. Gaertner was Vice Chairman and Global Head of Technology Investment Banking for Rothschild & Co. Mr. Gaertner previously held the position of Global Head of Corporate Finance for Technology Investment Banking for Credit Suisse. Mr. Gaertner has also been the Head of Technology Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch & Co and Bank of America. Mr. Gaertner has advised on over 100 equity and M&A transactions, including leading some of the largest deals in technology, including IPOs for companies such as Google and OpenTable.

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a CFA. He served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and 1st Special Operations Command.

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Contact information:

cgaertner@tapadvisors.com

+1 (917) 923-1352 (mobile)

Prior to joining TAP, Mr. Lowham^1,2 was an Executive Director in the Telecommunications Group at UBS Investment Bank, based in New York. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Lowham was in the Technology Group at Credit Suisse and Media and Telecommunications Group at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. Prior to business school, Mr. Lowham was an Analyst at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and Vice President at Greenwich Partners. During his career, Mr. Lowham had senior client responsibility for the Tower and Hosting sectors, as well as Qwest and Level 3 Communications. He has played a key role in a number of transactions for Qwest, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, DuPont Fabros, Equinix, TowerCo and Unison.

Mr. Lowham graduated summa cum laude from California State University, Northridge in 1992 with a degree in finance and received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1998.

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Contact information:

+1 (646) 320-3955 (mobile)

Mr. Terry^1,2 co-founded TAP Advisors in 2010. He had previously been Joint Global Head of the UBS Telecommunications Group. He began his career at Dillon Read, where he worked from 1979 to 1997, serving as Managing Director during the last eight years and founding the firm’s telecom effort. Dillon Read was sold to the predecessor of UBS, where he helped grow the firm’s telecom franchise to a leading global position until his departure in 2009.

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Mr. Terry has worked with several major companies on significant transactions, including T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Vodafone and others.

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Mr. Terry graduated from Yale College in 1976 with a degree in history and received an MBA from the Wharton School in 1979.

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Contact information:

dterry@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9009 (office)

Mr. Smith is a veteran investment banker with over 45 years of experience, primarily within the forest products and paper and packaging industries. He most recently served as a Senior Advisor at Houlihan Lokey and Greenhill & Company . Prior to Houlihan Lokey and Greenhill, he had been with UBS and its predecessor company Dillon Read since 1990. Before that, he worked at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers for many years. Bowen’s clients have included International Paper Company, Georgia Pacific, Louisiana Pacific, Rayonier, The St. Joe Company, Roseburg Lumber, Temple-Inland, Champion International, Union Camp Corporation, Bowater, Repap, and Gaylord Container as well as many leading TIMOs, including Hancock Natural Resource Group, and other alternative asset management companies.

Mr. Smith served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Forces, is an alumnus of Colgate University, and has an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

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Prior to joining TAP Advisors in 2022, Mr. El Khouri¹ worked in the Transaction Economics Group at Ernst & Young in New York, where he advised Fortune 500 companies and private equity funds on M&A transactions across a broad range of sectors.

Mr. El Khouri earned his M.Sc. in Operations Research from Columbia University, with a concentration in financial markets and management. He also holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Mr. El Khouri is fluent in French and Arabic.

Contact information:

helkhouri@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9034 (office)

James Flicker¹ has more than 25 years of investment banking experience. Before joining TAP Advisors, he ran the Forest Products and Packaging groups at DC Advisory, Greenhill and Citigroup. He also spent almost eight years at UBS in the Forest Products group. He started his career as an II-ranked Equity Research Analyst at Lehman Brothers. In addition to an MBA from Fordham University, James holds a BA from the University of Vermont where he sits on the Board of the Grossman School of Business and co-teaches a class. Since 1995, James has been a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He lives in Fairfield, CT with his wife and three children.

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Contact information:

jflicker@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9017 (office)

James (Jim) S. Kahan, Senior Executive Vice President - Corporate Development, was responsible at the time of his retirement for all domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital investments for AT&T Inc. and its subsidiaries. He was appointed to this position at SBC Communications Inc. in October 1999, and remained in the post following the close of the SBC’s acquisition of AT&T Corp. in November 2005 (after the merger SBC changed its name to AT&T Inc.). During this period he reported directly to the Chairman/CEO and was a member of the senior team that established the strategic direction for the firm.

Mr. Kahan began his Bell System career with Western Electric in St. Louis in 1967 and held increasing positions of responsibility at Bell Laboratories, South Central Bell, AT&T, and later Southwestern Bell/SBC Communications. He was first appointed an SBC officer as senior vice president - corporate development in 1992, and assumed additional responsibilities for strategic planning and marketing, and development of long-term business growth strategies. During his tenure with SBC, the company acquired many entities including Pacific Telesis (1997), SNET (1998), Ameritech (1999), and the former AT&T Corp. in 2005. He also oversaw AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth Corp. in 2006 as well as the numerous transactions which formed the basis for Cingular Wireless (later renamed AT&T Wireless). In addition, Mr. Kahan oversaw numerous international transactions for SBC including those in Mexico, Israel, France, South Africa, Switzerland, Canada and others. Overall he has been involved in over $300 billion in mergers, acquisitions and investments.

Mr. Kahan currently serves on the Boards of AMDOCS Ltd., an international provider of software and related services to the telecom industry and Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. the worlds largest live music and ticketing company. Mr. Kahan earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina system.

For much of his career Jeffrey Keil was with Edmond Safra’s Republic New York Corporation (was RNB - NYSE) and its wholly owned subsidiary Republic National Bank of New York, serving as President and Vice Chairman respectively from 1983 through 1996.

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More recently he served as President and Interim CEO of The St. Joe Company (JOE - NYSE) in 2014 and 2015. From 2011 - 2013 he served as a TAP Advisors Board Member. In addition, from 2007 - 2012 he was also the Chairman of the Board (non-executive) of Knight Vinke Asset Management, a company co-founded by CalPERS.

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Mr. Keil holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Mr. Keil currently serves as a Director for Blackrock Institutional Trust Company and until recently, served as a Director for Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF, formerly Leucadia National Corp.). Previously, he served as Director for the St. Joe Company and Bedrock Holdings. Formerly, he was a Trustee for the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Wharton Undergraduate Advisory Board Member, and Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. He is a Board Member of Centro Primo Levi, New York and of the Marion B and Jacob K. Javits Foundation, Inc.

Ms. Smith¹ is in charge of all administrative, financial, and operational aspects of the Company.

Prior to joining TAP, Ms. Smith¹ was a Vice President of Acquisitions and Real Estate Development for the Athena Group, where she analyzed real estate investments for Athena’s private equity fund and assisted in managing large real estate development projects in both the Las Vegas and Washington DC areas. Ms. Smith began her career at Prudential Securities working as an Analyst in the Consumer Investment Banking Group, followed by Deutsche Bank as an Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group as a generalist, and Morgan Stanley in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group and MSREF fund as a Summer Associate. After receiving her MBA, she joined the New York City Economic Development Corporation where she was an Assistant Vice President managing large-scale real estate development projects for the City of New York, including the new Yankee Stadium and Queens West in Long Island City, and spearheading economic development initiatives throughout the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx.

Ms. Smith graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and received an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

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Contact information:

jsmith@tapadvisors.com

Mr. Tabet^1,2 co-founded TAP Advisors in 2010, having previously been Vice Chairman of Technology, Media, and Telecom and Joint Global Head of the UBS Telecommunications Group at UBS. Throughout his career, Mr. Tabet had and continues to have senior client responsibility for a number of major corporations including AT&T, Citco, Infonet, Qwest, Sprint, T Mobile and Verizon. He also advises a number of financial sponsors, family offices and Sovereign Wealth Funds. He has played a leading role in transactions exceeding $500 billion of value in aggregate across several sectors including Telecom, Digital Infrastructure, Financial Services, Consumer and Industrials. Mr. Tabet began his career at Republic New York Corporation and joined Dillon Read in 1989 as an Investment Banking Associate.

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Mr. Tabet is fluent in French and Arabic and speaks conversational Spanish. He graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa from Georgetown University in 1983 with a degree in Economics and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987. Mr. Tabet is on the Board of Directors of Citco, the American Hospital in Paris (US Chapter), Brown University’s Middle East Council and Action Against Hunger USA.

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Contact information:

ktabet@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9000 (office)

Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. was the vice chairman and president of Verizon until his retirement in April of 2007. He was responsible for the Verizon Telecom and Verizon Business units. He was also a member of the board of directors of Verizon Wireless.

Mr. Babbio began his communications career in 1966 with New Jersey Bell Telephone. He served in a variety of positions in engineering, network construction, and technology development with New Jersey Bell and AT&T. In January 1995 he was elected vice chairman of Bell Atlantic Corporation.Prior to the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger, Babbio was president and chief operating officer for Bell Atlantic. He shared oversight of, and responsibility for, all of the corporation’s business operations, restructuring of the business units, the GTE merger process, and developing new growth opportunities.

Mr. Babbio also served as chairman of the company’s Global Wireless Group, one of the largest wireless operations worldwide. He was the lead executive in charge of developing Bell Atlantic’s domestic and international wireless communications strategy. Under his leadership, Bell Atlantic substantially increased the size and scope of its domestic and international wireless holdings.After retiring from Verizon in 2007 he became a Senior Advisor for Warburg Pincus until March, 2012.He has served on the board of ARAMARK Corporation since 1999. Babbio also serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology and also serves on the board of the Wallace Foundation.He holds a B.E. in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Mac Keers¹ brings more than ten years of investment-banking and principal-side M&A experience to TAP Advisors. Since joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Keers has focused on digital-infrastructure platforms—including broadband networks, datacenters, and wireless assets—advising clients on strategic acquisitions and growth-capital raises. He began his career in Deutsche Bank’s Power & Utilities group, executing M&A and capital-markets transactions across conventional generation and renewables. Before TAP, Mr. Keers served at Kindle Energy, a Blackstone portfolio company, where he helped lead M&A efforts for a multi-gigawatt conventional-generation portfolio.

Mr. Keers holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington & Lee University.

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Contact information:

mkeers@tapadvisors.com

+1 (203) 216-7414 (office)

Michael Leitner is the former co-head of Blackrock's Direct Lending and Special Situations investment practice where he was responsible for co-leading the platform, originating, and executing global investment opportunities, maintaining relationships with key deal sources, corporates, and intermediaries across the US and Europe. Mr. Leitner also co-led the firm’s investment strategies in the technology, communication services, and media sectors, leading over $4 billion of debt and equity special situations and middle-market lending investments. Prior to its acquisition by Blackrock in 2018, Mr. Leitner was a Managing Partner at Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP), a member of its Management Committee, and a past Chairman of the Investment Committee for all fund vehicles and strategies. TCP had more than $9 billion in committed capital when it was acquired by Blackrock.

During his tenure at TCP/BlackRock, Mr. Leitner had built the firm into a well-established and followed thought leader in the broader communication services and infrastructure industry, leading growth and turnaround investments in the satellite, wireline, wireless, cable, data center, managed services, and cloud-computing sectors. Investments spanned corporate buyouts, structured equity, and performing and distressed debt investments, with select investments including WIND Mobile, Wild Blue Communications, Protostar, Satmex, GlobeCom, Avanti, Tillman Infrastructure, INAP, Terremark, Gogo, Clearwire, Primacom, Integra Telecom, and Deltacom.

Before joining TCP in 2005, Mr. Leitner served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for WilTel Communications, President and Chief Executive Officer for GlobeNet Communications, Vice President of Corporate Development and head of Global Data Center and Colocation Services for 360networks, Senior Director of Corporate Development for Microsoft Corporation, and Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Leitner currently serves as a director on the boards of INAP, Tillman Infrastructure Group, Tomia Global and Endurance Acquisition Corp.

Mr. Leitner received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.B.A from the University of Michigan. Mr. Leitner is also an active member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization), and a licensed EMT in New York State.

Peter Hamamji¹ is a Vice President in TAP Advisors’ Digital Infrastructure practice, covering the Towers, Fiber, DAS, Data Centers, and Infrastructure Easements sectors. He is actively involved in client coverage and execution across these verticals. Mr. Hamamji advises on strategic, sponsor, and capital markets transactions, including M&A, private placements, and recapitalizations. His transaction experience includes DigitalBridge’s acquisition and subsequent minority sale of Landmark Dividend, the financing of Tillman’s tower, DAS and fiber platforms, and the sale of Boingo Wireless. Mr. Hamamji maintains a robust network of relationships across the financial sponsor community and is engaged across the digital infrastructure and private equity landscape.

Mr. Hamamji began his investment banking career as an Analyst at TAP Advisors in2018. Prior to joining the firm, he founded and managed Coast Rock Capital, a quantitative long/short equity hedge fund. Mr. Hamamji graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Business Administration and serves on the New York Committee of LIFE.

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Contact information:

phamamji@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9016 (office)

Mr. Knag is the former Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., joining the company in June 2018 after AT&T acquired Time Warner. Mr. Knag also was Executive Vice President, WarnerMedia Finance where he led organizations including FP&A, treasury, reporting, global procurement, corporate development, risk management, business improvement, merger integration and travel services. Prior to this, Mr. Knag was Vice President of AT&T Inc. merger planning and Managing Director of Corporate Development for AT&T Inc., where he led the management of client relationships, analysis, negotiation and execution of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, and venture capital investments on behalf of AT&T and its affiliates worldwide. Mr. Knag joined AT&T in 1999 and led and executed more than $200 billion in transactions.

Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Knag worked for Lehman Brothers and First Albany Corporation. Mr. Knag has served a a director on the boards of Central European Media Enterprises and Vogel Alcove. Mr. Knag holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.

Prior to joining TAP, Mr. Smith² was the EMEA Head of Industrials at Nomura in London. Mr. Smith has over 20 years of investment banking experience in the global Industrials sector, across a range of acquisitions, divestment and capital raisings, with a focus on Capital Goods and Automotive companies. He has previously worked for Moelis and Company as a Managing Director and EMEA Head of Industrials in London, and was a Managing Director in Citigroup’s Industrial Group having worked in both London and New York. He began his career with Deloitte in London where he qualified as a chartered accountant.

Mr. Smith received his BSc in Engineering Science from Durham University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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Contact information:

psmith@tapadvisors.com

Rabih Hasbini¹ is a Vice President at TAP Advisors, bringing over eight years ofcombined experience in investment banking and strategic advisory. He focuses onthe Timber, Forest Products, and Packaging sectors, advising clients on M&Aand capital markets transactions.

Prior to TAP Advisors, Rabihwas an Engagement Manager in PwC’s Deals Strategy and Operations practice,where he advised corporate, private equity, and sovereign wealth fund clientson investment strategy, capital allocation, growth initiatives, and commercialdue diligence across a range of industries. His project work spanned buy- andsell-side diligence, market entry assessments, multi-country go-to-marketredesigns, and business case development for large-scale investments.

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Rabih holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA from the American University of Beirut.

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Contact information:

rhasbini@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9014 (office)

Ronald T. LeMay is a pioneer and respected leader in the wireless industry, and has nearly 40 years of telecommunications senior operating experience with companies such as AT&T, Sprint, and Southwestern Bell. Mr. LeMay served as the first employee and CEO of Sprint PCS, the company’s wireless entity, and guided it from start-up to $10 billion in revenue faster than any company in history. His career with Sprint spanned 18 years and he served as President and COO before retiring in 2003. Following that time, Mr. LeMay served as an Industrial Partner with Ripplewood Holdings, a private equity firm. He held the CEO position at Japan Telecom from November 2003 until the sale of the company in July 2004. In 2006, he was named Chairman of the Board for GoGo In-Flight Internet. Mr. LeMay co-founded the venture capital entity October Capital in 1999. It has provided venture capital to more than 15 companies in diverse industry segments. He is also co-founder and managing director of OpenAir Equity Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm focused on the wireless, communications and mobile Internet sectors. Ron currently sits on the board of MachineryLink.

A native of Arkansas, Ron attended Southern Arkansas University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree, and graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Senator John Sununu cut a unique path from the private sector to public office, serving for three terms in the House of Representatives and for six years as the youngest member of the United States Senate. Before entering public service, Sununu worked for emerging high-tech firms as an engineer, strategy consultant, and a Chief Financial Officer. In Congress, he put his expertise to work for the country, serving on Senate committees such as Commerce, Finance, Banking, and Foreign Relations.

A one of the few members of Congress with a technical background, Sununu rose quickly to earn a seat on the House Appropriations Committee and serve as Vice Chairman of the Budget Committee. During his term in the Senate, Sununu provided leadership in areas of finance and technology, figuring prominently in debates addressing funding for the National Science Foundation, telecommunications policy, and medical information technology.

In the Senate, John Sununu took a lead role in pressing for regulatory reform, writing legislation to reign in the risk-taking at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that was signed into law in 2008. He led the effort to protect the Internet from regulation, and negotiated a seven-year ban on Internet taxes. He was the author of the New England Wilderness Act, as well as legislation that ensured better protection for civil liberties under the PATRIOT Act.

From 2008-2009, Sununu served as a member or the Congressional Oversight Panel for the $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. He served on the Board of Directors for Time Warner Cable and currently is a board member of Boston Scientific, a leading manufacturer of medical devices. Senator Sununu also serves as the Co-Chair of Broadband for America, a 300-member organization focused on broadband investment, deployment and access. He is a contributing editor for Bloomberg News, and writes a weekly column for the Boston Globe.

He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Central Asia, leading delegations to monitor the Palestinian Presidential elections in 2005, and the Lebanese Parliamentary elections in June 2009. He served on the Mid-East Working Group at the U.S. Institute for Peace, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Senator Sununu holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MBA from Harvard University. He and his wife Kitty have three children.

Stephane Roussel is Chairman of the Vivendi Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Hospital of Paris.

After graduating in 1985 from the School of Practicing Psychologists in Paris, he began his career in human resources. In 1994 he was named Human Resources Director (“HRD”) at Xerox and became HRD France and International within the Carrefour group after 1997. He became HRD of SFR, then of Vivendi, and was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SFR in June 2012. After the sale of SFR to Altice in 2014, Stephane joined the general management of the Vivendi Group first as a Member of the Management Board then as Chief Operating Officer from June 2016 to June 2022. From June 2016 to June 2022, he was also the CEO of Gameloft (a video game development and publishing company within the Vivendi group).

Stephane Roussel also serves on the Board of the association Entreprises pour la Cité (network of companies invested in social innovation) and of WeTechCare (association founded in 2017 to open digital opportunities to all and improve social support through technology). He previously served as a Board member of Canal+, Banijay, and Telecom Italia.

Mr. Collar is a 30 years satellite industry veteran having most recently served as the CEO of SES, the world’s largest satellite operator. During his time at SES, he led the recapitalization of the company’s balance sheet through an industry-defining $4bn spectrum agreement with the US carriers and reorientated the business towards data and Government solutions. Prior to SES, Mr Collar pioneered the world’s first broadband non-geostationary satellite constellation, O3b Networks, founded to democratize access to global connectivity, leading the company from initial funding through constellation deployment and commercial success. He successfully drove the sale of O3b Networks to SES for a valuation of close to $2bn. He is the founder of Nebula Advisors.

He started his career at Airbus, designing satellites for global operators and is an engineer by background, holding a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University, London. He has served on numerous Boards in his time including the Boards of O3b Networks and space start-up All.Space.

Prior to joining TAP, Mr. Pearce² was a Managing Director in the TMT Group at Houlihan Lokey in London. Mr. Pearce has over 20 years’ investment banking experience predominantly focused on M&A/advisory and capital markets in the Telecom/Communications and surrounding industries including Cloud/IT Managed Services. He was formerly Head of Media & Telecom at Houlihan Lokey, EMEA, and was previously at Rothschild in London and Hong Kong, where he was Head of Telecom, Greater China. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at CMS in London, following which he joined HSBC’s equity capital markets team in London, and then moved into corporate finance/M&A at HSBC. He has extensive experience in the initiation, structuring and managing of often complex transactions in the sector, including some situations involving high leverage.

Mr. Pearce holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and was a practicing Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales.

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Contact information:

tpearce@tapadvisors.com

+44(0) 208 102 2715 (office)

Prior to joining TAP in 2011, Mr. Breyter¹ worked at a number of middle-market private equity firms based in the United States and Europe. Mr. Breyter started his career in the Financial Sponsors Group of JP Morgan where he covered large-cap and middle-market private equity funds. While at1 JP Morgan, Mr. Breyter worked on number of transactions spanning a wide array of industries, including notable transactions such as the $33 billion buyout of HCA.

Mr. Breyter earned his MBA from the William E. Simon Graduate School at the University of Rochester. Additionally, he graduated cum laude from the University of Rochester with a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Computer Science. Mr. Breyter is conversant in Russian.

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Contact information:

vbreyter@tapadvisors.com

+1 (212) 909-9005 (office)

Prior to Joining TAP in 2019, Mr. Kassis¹ worked as a Management Consultant at Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) and Booz Allen Hamilton where he advised clients on strategic planning, organizational development and financial feasibility engagements.

He has been involved in numerous transactions across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on the Telecommunications sector.

He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering (High Distinction) from AUB, an MS in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA, and an MBA (Palmer Scholar) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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