Company: MYND
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-014832
Chunk: 45

Company: Mynd.ai, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 45
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O) since February 2017 and March 2017, respectively, and the board trustee of New England Innovative Academy since February 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Getz served in various development capacities for non-profit organizations in New York and California and was president of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Getz was the president and co-founder of Rim Pacific, a manufacturing and distribution firm focusing on art reproductions. Mr. Getz received his B. A. in 1986 from Harvard University.

Dr. Tarek Shawki has served as a Director of the Company since December 2023. Dr. Shawki currently serves as the University Counselor at The American University in Cairo. Prior to his current role, Dr. Shawki served as the Minister of Education and Technical Education in Egypt from February 2017 through August 2022. Throughout his tenure as the Minister of Education, Dr. Shawki led a massive transformation of Egyptian pre-university education starting in the fall of 2017 when he introduced the new Egyptian Education System known as “ EGY Edu 2.0” which covers the grades from KG1 until G6 moving forward to cover all remaining grades by 2029. In addition, Dr. Shawki introduced a major integration of ICT technologies in high school education at a national scale and changed assessment models, digital learning resources and used electronic examinations across the country besides reinventing the structure of the “exit examination” in G12 in Egypt. Prior to serving as the Minister, Dr. Shawki served as the “ Secretary General of the Presidential Specialized Councils” from February 2015 to January 2017 where he managed 4 advisory councils to the President of Egypt. He also served as the Chair of the Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research. Through this presidential assignment, Dr. Shawki designed and founded the so-called “ Egyptian Knowledge Bank” (EKB) which is the largest knowledge digital library in the world containing digital resources from world renowned publishers, and it is made freely available for all Egyptians since its launch in January 2016. Dr. Shawki was educated at Cairo University in Egypt where he earned a B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (1979) and later earned a Ph. D. in Engineering from Brown University (1985) in Rhode Island, U. S. A. where he also earned two Master of Science degrees in Applied Mathematics and Applied Mechanics. Dr. Shaw