Company: ORBS
Filing Date: 2025-09-12
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-013280
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Company: Eightco Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-12
Form: PRE 14A
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 of Corporate Directors (NACD) Carolinas Region, and serves on the advisory board of Park National Bank. Mr. Foreman has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Illinois. Mr. Foreman brings to Eightco significant experience with start-ups and knowledge of intellectual property matters.

Nicola Caiano. Mr. Caiano has served as a member of the board of directors since April 26, 2025. Mr. Caiano has served as Chief Financial Officer of Cytometric Therapeutics, where he leads capital formation strategies to fund clinical trials for groundbreaking cancer therapies, since December 2024. He has also served as the Founding Partner of Olea Management LLC since March 2018, where he advises family offices and early-stage companies across diverse industries, including technology, finance, and consumer goods, on capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Caiano was a Partner and Director of Research at Pinyon Asset Management, managing a global event-driven equity and credit portfolio, from May 2011 to December 2017. His career also includes senior roles at Paulson & Co. Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase, and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Mr. Caiano holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and he completed advanced culinary training at The Italian Culinary Academy, where he was Valedictorian. Mr. Caiano brings to Eightco significant financial and business experience.

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Board Diversity

It is anticipated that we will seek diversity in experience, viewpoint, education, skill, and other individual qualities and attributes to be represented on our Board. We believe directors should have various qualifications, including individual character and integrity; business experience; leadership ability; strategic planning skills, ability, and experience; requisite knowledge of our industry and finance, accounting, and legal matters; communications and interpersonal skills; and the ability and willingness to devote time to our company. We also believe the skill sets, backgrounds, and qualifications of our anticipated directors, taken as a whole, should provide a significant mix of diversity in personal and professional experience, background, viewpoints, perspectives, knowledge, and abilities. Nominees will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis proscribed by law. It is anticipated that the assessment of prospective directors will be made in the context of the perceived needs