Our officers, directors and director nominees are as follows: Name Age Position Douglas Maine 72 Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Allen Salmasi 65 Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and Director Fay Arjomandi 52 Director nominee Robert Nolan 68 Director nominee Hillel Weinberger 67 Director nominee Douglas L. Maine has been our Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer since inception. He has over 40 years of extensive experience in the TMT business areas, AI, information technology services, and enterprise systems and software. Mr. Maine is currently a Senior Advisor to Brown Brothers Harriman & Co (“BBH”), a 200-year-old privately held Wall Street financial services firm and serves on the Board of Directors of three BBH Private Equity portfolio companies. Since 2018, he has been the Lead Director of Acreage Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX:ACRHF, ACRDF), a company in the cannabis industry. He has previously served on the Board of four public companies: (Albemarle (NYSE:ALB), a specialty chemicals company, from 2015 to May 2020; Rockwood Holdings (formerly NYSE:ROC), a specialty chemicals company acquired by Albemarle, from 2005 until 2015, Orbital-ATK (formerly NYSE:OA), an aerospace and defense company acquired by Northrop Grumman, from 2006 to 2017 and BroadSoft (formerly NASDAQ:BSFT), a software company acquired by Cisco, from 2007 to 2018, as well as six private companies which were all acquired by strategic or financial investors. Prior to BBH, Mr. Maine had joined IBM as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President in 1998. As Chief Financial Officer, he was responsible for financial, treasury, tax, business development, internal audit, and real estate activities, as well as IBM Global Financing Corporation. He later was general manager of two operating units of IBM and retired from IBM in 2005. During his tenure, he co-led the sale of the IBM global network for $5 billion. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Maine was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of MCI (now part of Verizon) from 1991 to 1998 and was extensively involved in MCI’s groundbreaking role in developing the Internet for commercial use. Prior to becoming the Chief Financial Officer, he held a variety of sales, operating and financial leadership roles during his 20-year career at MCI. Mr. Maine is an Executive in Residence at Columbia University Business School, Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Hofstra University Business School and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Temple University Business School. He was a two-term member of the Advisory Board (SAG) for the PCAOB, which is the Federal Regulator of the Auditing profession. Mr. Maine has a B.S. from Temple University and an MBA from Hofstra University. He is well-qualified to serve as a Director due to his extensive operational and C-suite experience. Allen Salmasi has been our Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and Director since inception. Mr. Salmasi is the Chief Executive Officer of Veea Inc, a provider of full stack cloud-to-edge computing and communications platform products and solutions, founded in 2014. He is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NLabs Inc., a New York-based family office investment firm that he founded in 2013. Mr. Salmasi currently serves on the board of KINS Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: KINZ), a blank check company that consummated its IPO in December 2020, and several private companies, including Ostendo, Inc., the first to market company with a quantum photonics chip for quantum imaging, communications and computing applications; mimik technology inc., a distributed hybrid edge-cloud computing company; NextWave HoldCo LLC, a holding company with extensive 2.5 GHz spectrum assets; and serves as the Chairman of the Board of OncoSynergy Inc., a clinical stage oncology company with next generation immunotherapies targeted at glioblastoma and ovarian cancer indications. Prior to founding Veea in 2014, Mr. Salmasi was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of NextWave Telecom Inc. and, its successor, NextWave Wireless Inc. (“NextWave”), a San Diego-based company that he founded in 1996. In partnership with MCI Communications Corporation, NextWave developed and substantially implemented the first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (“MVNO”) service in the US between 1996 and 1998. NextWave acquired substantial spectrum assets in the US and other countries between 1996 and 2007. NextWave Telecom Inc. was acquired by Verizon in 2005 and NextWave Wireless was acquired by AT&T in 2013. NextWave also pioneered several products and technologies, that it spun off or were directly acquired at various times, such as low-power FDD-CDMA chipset (acquired by Texas Instruments), packet-switched wireless broadband network equipment and devices for TDD-CDMA and LTE (acquired by General Dynamics), mixed-signal integrated analog/digital chipsets 107 Table of Contents and devices based on OFDMA (acquired by WiLAN), and mobile media and streaming software platform that was adopted by Google for Android devices (acquired by NTT DoCoMo). Through 2013, NextWave’s transactions totaled in excess of $10 billion dollars. Prior to NextWave, he served as the President of Wireless Division, Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Qualcomm Incorporated from 1988 to 1995, where he initiated and led the business development activities for the cellular product for Code Division Multiple Access (“CDMA”) technology. At Qualcomm, he established two joint ventures with Sony Corporation for manufacturing of the first CDMA handsets and Nortel Networks for manufacturing of CMDA infrastructure, while leading the technology licensing arrangements with many prominent early licensees of Qualcomm. Through his efforts CDMA-based IS-95 standards were adopted in the US, South Korea and several other countries. Mr. Salmasi also initiated the Globalstar low-earth-orbit mobile satellite communications project. While at Qualcomm, he played a key role in the adoption of CDMA in South Korea, China, Japan, India, Brazil and several other countries. Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Salmasi was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Omninet Corporation from 1983 to 1988, where he initiated and led the development of OmniTRACS that was first demonstrated in 1985. OmniTRACS service became the world’s first and largest commercial terrestrial mobile satellite communications service for two-way messaging and position reporting services as the first large scale commercial application of CDMA. Omninet awarded a contract to Qualcomm shortly after its formation in 1985 to manufacture OmniTRACS terminals and in 1988 fully merged with Qualcomm. Mr. Salmasi began his career at NASA JPL in 1979 working on Mobile Satellite Service and other programs. He holds two Bachelor of Science degrees with honors in Electrical Engineering and Business Management and Economics from Purdue University and two Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Purdue University and the University of Southern California, respectively. While working at Omninet, he completed his doctoral coursework at University of Southern California towards a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (with his dissertation defense pending to date). Mr. Salmasi received Purdue University’s Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award (“OECE”) in 1999 and Purdue University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 2018. He has served as a trustee of Barnard College of Columbia University and is a member of several charitable organizations. He is well-qualified to serve as a Director due to his extensive technical and operational experience. Fay Arjomandi, who will serve as one of our directors as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms part, is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of mimik technology inc. She has led the product development and delivery of hybrid edge-cloud computing solutions at mimik since 2016. While incubating mimik, Ms. Arjomandi was also the Chief Executive Officer of a group of mobile companies which were subsidiaries of Nantworks LLC, a multinational conglomerate holding company, between 2014 and 2016. Prior to NantWorks, Ms. Arjomandi was the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone xone, an innovation lab and startup accelerator, until 2014. She launched Vodafone xone in Silicon Valley in 2011, which became the global incubation center of the Vodafone Group and the beta brand for Vodafone consumers as well as Vodafone network platforms in the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Egypt. She spearheaded partnership work with emerging and disruptive technologies to enable start-up companies to develop, test, and prepare for commercial deployment in global markets. Additionally, her role expanded to leading Vodafone Ventures, the venture capital arm of Vodafone Group. She was also the President of Vodafone Americas Foundation, an outreach program whose mission is to mobilize communities to resolve shared problems and to enable mobile technology to advance social change in addition to exceptional leadership and vision. Prior to Vodafone, Ms. Arjomandi was the co-founder of two other start-up companies in the technology industry, L3 Technology and Mobidia, where she held senior executive level and Board positions between 2000 and 2008. Mobidia was acquired by App Annie Inc. Ms. Arjomandi is an official member of the Forbes Technology Council. In 2020, she was named by Linux Foundation/State of the Edge as the Edge Woman of the Year. In 2018, she was recognized as the Alumni of the year at Concordia University. In 2014, she was named by San Francisco Business Week as one of the most influential women business leaders in Silicon Valley. Fay received the distinguished Business in Vancouver’s 2006 “Top 40 Under 40” award presented to outstanding leaders in their chosen fields. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is well-qualified to serve on our board due to her startup and venture capital experience as well as her operational experience. Robert Nolan, who will serve as one of our directors as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms part, is the founding partner of Halyard Capital, a private equity firm, and since 2006 chaired its Investment Committee across Halyard’s separate funds totaling more than $600 million. He has represented Halyard on the Boards of its portfolio companies in tech-enabled business and information services, digital marketing/data analytics, IT cyber security and IT infrastructure and communications, including Education 108 Table of Contents Dynamics, Practice Insight, Jun Group, Engauge Marketing, LLC, Women’s Marketing, Inc., American Consolidated Media, Inflow, North Dakota Holdings, and TRANZACT. From 2001 until 2006, Mr. Nolan was the Chief Executive Officer of the BMO Private Equity Group, overseeing an investment portfolio with $1 billion in capital. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of Media & Telecommunications Investment Banking at CIBC World Markets from 1998 to 2000. Prior to CIBC, Mr. Nolan was Telecommunications Group Head at UBS Securities from 1996 to 1998. He also worked for nine years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Telecommunications, Media & Technology Group from 1987 to 1996. Currently he serves as a Senior Advisor to Brown Brothers Harriman, the Mission OG Group and Connecticut Innovations, and he also serves on the Board of Directors of Point Pickup Technologies, a last-mile logistics business since 2020 and Curacity, a travel technology firm, since 2019. He is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations. Since March 2021, he has been a director nominee of ONS Acquisition Corp., a blank check company currently in registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Nolan received his Doctor of Law (J.D.) degree from the Fordham University School of Law and his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, where he is a member of the McDonough School of Business Board of Advisors. He is well-qualified to serve on our board due to his extensive investing and finance background, as well as his experience serving on multiple private company boards. Hillel Weinberger, who will serve as one of our directors as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has since 2010 been a Principal of HLA, a privately-owned venture capital firm. Prior to this, from 2007 to the present, Mr. Weinberger has been co-founder of Hillmark Capital Management, L.P., and before this was a Senior Vice-President of Loews/CNA Holdings, a property and casualty insurance company, from 1988 to 2006. Prior thereto he was a Senior Vice-President of Presidential Life, from 1982 to1988. He has served on the boards of Global Crossing Ltd. (telecommunications; NYSE: GX) from 1997 to 2000, where he chaired the Audit Committee, and News Communications, Inc. (newspaper and magazine publishing) from 1990 to1993. He is currently a director of GX Acquisition Corp. II, a blank check company that consummated its initial public offering in March 2021 and is currently searching for an initial business combination. Since 2019, he has served as a director of GX Acquisition Corp., a blank check company currently in the process of consummating its initial business combination with Celularity Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company. Mr. Weinberger attended Temple University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is well qualified to serve on our board due to his investment, operational and board experience. Advisors Dr. Sheena S. Iyengar, one of our advisors, is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia University Business School, a position she has held since 2009. She is a blind Indian American woman and heads the innovation program at the Columbia Business School where she has founded and directs the Innovation Salon, a platform where business and thought leaders come together with students to discuss industry challenges, and how to turn those challenges into opportunities for innovation. She has been voted one of the Most Influential Business Thinkers by Thinkers 50 in 2019 and 2011 and rated one of the Best Business School Professors by Poets and Quants in 2012. An expert on consumer choice and innovation, Dr. Iyengar has worked with over 100 companies ranging from consumer products to financial services to management consulting in order to help change industry standards and practices. Dr. Iyengar has authored The Art of Choosing, a Financial Times, McKinsey and Amazon.com best business book of 2010. She has also developed “Think Bigger,” a course at Columbia which teaches a six-step innovation method based on neurological and cognitive science. Dr. Iyengar has recorded two TED Talks and has been cited in major online, print and broadcast media outlets. Since 2021, Dr. Iyengar has been a member of the Board of Advisors of Ernst & Young’s Wavespace team, a division focused on technology, design, and business innovation, and since 2020 has been a member of the Board of Advisors as well as Correlation One, a startup using new tools in AI and Machine Learning to help countries and businesses elevate their data talent. She serves on the Global Council at the Asia Society and holds positions with two not-for-profits advocating for the education of the disadvantaged. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Asian University for Women and Ashinaga Kenjin-Tatsujin International Advisory Council. Dr. Iyengar graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Psychology and received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University. In 2002, she was the only social scientist to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the Office of the President. Dr. Hassan Ahmed, one of our advisors, most recently served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Affirmed Networks (“Affirmed”) which pioneered virtualization technologies for mobile 5G networks. He ran Affirmed from inception, and after nearly a decade of growth, sold the company to Microsoft in March 2020. Prior 109 Table of Contents to this, he was Chief Technology Officer of Cascade Communications which Ascend Communications (“Ascend”) acquired for $3.7 billion in 1997. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Sonus Networks (“Sonus”), growing it from its very early roots to the leading company transforming telephony to IP. Sonus went public in May 2000. Mr. Ahmed currently serves on the boards of Ciena Corp. (NYSE: CIEN), a telecommunications networking equipment and software services supplier, since 2020, and Vesper Technologies, a smart home technology provider, since 2019. He is a director of KINS Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: KINZ), a blank check company that consummated its IPO in December 2020. He has also served on several other public and private boards as well as on the boards of select educational institutions. Mr. Ahmed holds Bachelor and Master Science degrees in Engineering from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. David Lee is a co-founder and Managing General Partner of Clarity Partners. In 1975, Dr. Lee started his professional career with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Los Angeles. Starting in 1981 he joined several different commercial enterprises, primarily in the technology and communications industries, joining TRW Information Systems Group in 1986, where he was group vice president of finance and acquisitions. In late 1989, Dr. Lee left TRW to pursue his interest in private equity investments, and joined Pacific Capital Group, where he helped the firm’s expansion into the telecommunications industry. Dr. Lee was a co-founder of Global Crossing in 1997, and served as president and chief operating officer until early 2000 when he left to found Clarity Partners. Dr. Lee is the current Chair of the Board of Trustees at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the J. Paul Getty Trust. He is a graduate of McGill University and holds a Doctorate in physics with a minor in economics from the California Institute of Technology. Through a grant from The Lee Family Foundation, Dr. Lee has established Centers for Advanced Networking at the California Institute of Technology and at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Marcus Brauchli is co-founder and managing partner of North Base Media, a global venture-capital firm that invests in innovative media and technology. Its portfolio includes leading digital media players in Indonesia, India, the Philippines and Mexico, as well as global media brands like Minute Media, Atlas Obscura, and media-tech platforms like Piano, OpenSlate and Syte. Mr. Brauchli serves on the board of Gremi Media, a Polish business-media company listed on the New Connect Market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, as well as on the board of The News Lens, Taiwan’s leading independent digital-media group. He also is an advisor to Datami, a telecommunications technology startup in Massachusetts, and other startups. Before co-founding NBM, Mr. Brauchli was The Washington Post’s executive editor and a vice president of The Washington Post Co. (now Graham Holdings Co.). During his tenure, the Washington Post extended its record of journalistic excellence with seven Pulitzer Prizes. He led initiatives that quadrupled the Washington Post’s digital audience and integrated digital and video content into its regular output. Mr. Brauchli came to the Washington Post from a long career at The Wall Street Journal, where