Company: SLNH
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001756
Chunk: 1136

Company: Soluna Holdings, Inc
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 3
Chunk 1136
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Planning until April 2002. Mr. Belizaire has a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.E. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Mr. Belizaire
also attended the Executive Development Program at The Wharton School from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Belizaire has been a successful entrepreneur,
venture capitalist and has served as Chief Executive Officer of SHI and its pre-merger entity, Soluna Callisto, which the Board believes
qualifies him to serve as a director.

John
Tunison was appointed to serve as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, effective April 8, 2024, with employment
commencing on March 29, 2024. Mr. Tunison is an experienced finance professional, previously serving as Chief Financial Officer of Verdant
Specialty Solutions from May 2023 to March 2024 and Chief Financial Officer of Trussway Manufacturing, LLC from November 2018 to December
2022. Prior to this, Mr. Tunison held Chief Financial Officer and senior finance roles at several companies, including Shell plc, Univar
Solutions Inc., Ascend Performance Materials LLC and Velocys plc. His CFO roles have included public, venture backed and private equity
owned capital structures in the renewable fuels, chemicals, software, and manufacturing industries. Prior to his finance career, Mr. Tunison
was a Nuclear Submarine Officer in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Tunison received an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Rhode Island and a
B.S. in Political Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.

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Michael
Toporek served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company from November
2020 until May 1, 2023 when he stepped down from that position and was appointed Executive Chairman of the Board. Mr. Toporek has served
as a member of the Board since October 2016. Since 2003, Mr. Toporek has served as the Managing General Partner of Brookstone Partners
IAC, Inc. (“Brookstone Partners”), a lower middle market private equity firm based in New York and an affiliate of Brookstone
Partners Acquisition XXIV, LLC (“Brookstone XXIV”). Prior to founding Brookstone Partners in 2003, Mr. Toporek was both an
active principal investor and an investment banker. Mr. Toporek began his career in Chemical Banking Corporation’s Investment Banking
Group