Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001493152-25-001958
Chunk: 17

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 17
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 and internationally, to create value for our shareholders, and that our contacts and relationships, including owners of private and public companies, private equity funds, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and business brokers, will allow us to generate attractive acquisition opportunities. Our management team is led by Daniel J. Hennessy, who has over 30 years of experience in the private equity investment business and over 10 years of experience in the SPAC asset class. Seasoned Board of Directors with Relevant Industry Experience We have recruited and organized a group of seven highly accomplished and engaged directors and director nominees who will bring to us public company governance, executive leadership, operations oversight and capital markets expertise. Our board members have served as directors, chief executive officers, chief financial officers or in other executive and advisory capacities for numerous publicly-listed and privately-owned companies. Our directors and director nominees have extensive experience with acquisitions, divestitures and corporate strategy and possess relevant domain expertise in the sectors where we expect to source business combination targets including, but not limited to, industrial technology and energy transition. We believe their collective expertise, contacts and relationships make us a highly competitive and desirable merger partner. The backgrounds of our highly-qualified independent director nominees are highlighted below:

| ● | Grant                                                                                           
 R. Allen will be one of our independent directors as of the effective date of the registration  
 statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Mr. Allen has served as a Venture Partner      
 of Giant Ventures since May 2024. Mr. Allen previously served as founding General Partner       
 from August 2019 to January 2024 at SE Ventures, a financially oriented, single LP fund created 
 in partnership with Schneider Electric. Prior to SE Ventures, Mr. Allen served as global        
 head of venture investing at Zurich-based ABB Ltd. where he was also a member of ABB’s          
 Technology Leadership Team and served on the Board of Directors of Enbala Power Networks,       
 acquired in 2020 by Generac, and Industrial Defender, acquired by Lockheed Martin in 2014.      
 Prior to joining ABB in 2010, Mr. Allen worked at Core Capital Partners, Microsoft Corporation, 
 Dean & Company and Bates White.                                                                 |

| ● | Brian                                                                                               
 Bonner will be one of our independent directors as of the effective date of the registration        
 statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Mr. Bonner served on Board of Directors            
 of Daseke from February 2015 to April 2024, including roles as Executive Chairman (August