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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On January 28, 2022, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Plum Acquisition Corp. I (the “Company”) appointed Kanishka Roy and Mike Dinsdale as Co-Chief Executive Officers. Mr. Roy has served as President and as a member of the Board since the inception of the Company. Mr. Dinsdale has served as Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the Board since the inception of the Company. Mr. Dinsdale and Mr. Roy will each retain their existing titles.
Kanishka B. Roy, 46, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer is a technology and finance veteran, with over 20 years of experience as a technology investment banker, public company executive, and growth investor. Mr. Roy is President of Plum Acquisition Corp. I. From 2014 to 2019, he helped leading Software and Internet companies with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets transactions. Mr. Roy also served as the Global Head of Tech M&A Origination for Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for initiating large, industry-transforming mergers, helping clients take a long-term view of the competitive landscape and implementing winning M&A playbooks to maximize shareholder value. Over his career, Mr. Roy has participated in over$100 billion of M&A transactions. Most recently, from 2019 to 2020, he was Global CFO at SmartNews, a multi-billion-dollar private AI company with over 20 million monthly average users, and led the strategic finance and growth of a rapidly growing company across multiple geographies. Mr. Roy started his career as a software engineer at two software startups, both of which were acquired by larger public companies, and also worked in executive strategy roles at IBM. Mr. Roy holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Mike Dinsdale, 49, Chief Financial Officer and Co-Chief Executive Officer has embodied the “modern unicorn” CFO for over 20 years, with strategic expertise in building high-growth international companies that consistently exceed growth targets. Mr. Dinsdale has successfully secured over $1 billion in financing and been part of great teams generating more than $100 billion in value. Mr. Dinsdale is the CFO, COO and a director of Plum I. Prior to his role at Plum I, Mr. Dinsdale was the CFO for Gusto from 2017 to 2020 and prior to that was CFO at two generational, market leading software companies: DoorDash, from 2016 to 2017, and DocuSign, where he also served as Chief Growth Officer, from 2010 to 2016. In addition to his role at Plum II, Mr. Dinsdale serves as a Venture Partner at Akkadian Ventures, a late-stage venture fund, and as a board member for private software companies. Mr. Dinsdale earned a BS in engineering from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from McMaster University. Mr. Dinsdale holds the CFA designation and competed with the Canadian National Sailing Team in the 1996 Olympic trials. He also serves on the Board of Directors for WildAid.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Dated: January 31, 2022
| PLUM ACQUISITION CORP. I | ||
| By: | /s/ Kanishka Roy | |
| Name: | Kanishka Roy | |
| Title: | President and co-Chief Executive Officer | |