Dr. Kathuria serves as the
Co-Chairman
of our Board of Directors. Dr. Kathuria is an Indian-American investor, businessperson, and philanthropist. He is the
co-founder
of UpHealth Holdings and several other companies. Dr. Kathuria
co-founded
Ocean Biomedical in January 2019 and serves as the Chairman of its Board of Directors, a position he has held since inception. Ocean Biomedical is a biotech company that partners with leading scientists and research institutions to accelerate the translation of new discoveries into breakthrough medicines. Dr. Kathuria also
co-founded
AIRO Group in March 2020 and serves as the Chairman of its Board of Directors, a position he has held since inception. AIRO Group offers an
end solution for the next generation of avionics, manned and unmanned mobility, and multi-modal transportation for defense and commercial markets. In addition, Dr. Kathuria
co-founded
and served as Chairman of New Generation Power in February 2009 and founded and served as a director of American Teleradiology NightHawks, Inc. in March 2003. American Teleradiology NightHawks, Inc. merged with NightHawk Radiology Holdings, Inc. and the combined company went public on NASDAQ in October 2006. Dr. Kathuria served as a director of The
X-Stream
Networks Inc. from March 1998 to March 2000, an internet service provider which was sold to Liberty Surf Group S.A. and subsequently went public on the Paris Stock Exchange. Dr. Kathuria has also been involved in space exploration, and was the Founding Director of MirCorp in January 1999, the first commercial company to privately launch and fund manned space programs. Dr. Kathuria ran for U.S. Senate in Illinois, becoming the first Indian-American to run for the U.S. Senate in U.S. history, in a race that included eventual winner, President Barack Obama. Dr. Kathuria received a Bachelor of Science degree and Doctor of Medicine degree from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University.
Dr. Avi S. Katz serves as
Co-Chairman
of our Board of Directors. Previously, he served as our Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors since March 2019 until the closing of the Business Combinations on June 9, 2021, and from that time until August 2019, was also our Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary. In March 2019, Dr. Katz founded the Company. The Company completed its initial public offering in June 2019, in which it sold 17,250,000 units at a per unit price of $10.00, with each unit consisting of one share of our Common Stock, one warrant to purchase one share of our Common Stock, and one right to receive
one-twentieth
(1/20) of one share of our Common Stock, generating aggregate proceeds of $172,500,000. He also serves as
Co-Chairman
of the Board of Directors of Lightning eMotors, Inc. (formerly GigCapital3, Inc.), where he previously prior to the May 2021 business combination served as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary since February 2020, as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of GigCapital4, Inc. since its inception in December 2020, as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of GigCapital5, Inc. since its inception in January 2021, as a director of GigCapital6, Inc. since its inception in February 2021, and as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of GigInternational1, Inc. since its inception in February 2021. He is also the Founding Managing Member of GigFounders, LLC, a Founding Managing Member of GigManagement, LLC and the Manager of the Sponsor, as well as GigAcquisitions, LLC (the sponsor of GigCapital) and GigAcquisitions3, LLC (the sponsor of GigCapital3, Inc.). Dr. Katz has spent approximately 33 years in international executive positions within the TMT industry working for privately held
start-ups,
middle-cap
companies and large enterprises. In these roles, Dr. Katz has been instrumental in launching and accelerating entities, building teams, large scale fund-raising, developing key alliances and technology partnerships, M&A activities, business development, financial management, global operations and sales and marketing. In October 2017, Dr. Katz founded GigCapital, a
Equity (PPE) company formed for the purpose of acquiring a company in the technology industry. GigCapital completed its initial public offering in December 2017, in which it sold 14,375,000 units at price of $10.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of GigCapital common stock, three-quarters (3/4) of one warrant to purchase one share of GigCapital common stock and one right to receive
one-tenth
(1/10) of one share of GigCapital common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of $143,750,000, and, at that time, was listed on the NYSE under the symbol “GIG.” On February 22, 2019, after intensive screening of more than 400 companies worldwide, GigCapital entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire Kaleyra S.p.A. at a transaction enterprise value of $187,000,000 with combined cash and/or promissory note consideration of $15,000,000. Kaleyra S.p.A. is a