Company: GIGGU
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-034611
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Company: GigCapital7 Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 10
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 one share of GIG5 common stock, generating aggregate proceeds of 230 million. GIG5 listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “GIG.” Dr. Katz served as the Executive Chairman of GIG5 from its inception until the closing of the business combination with QT Imaging, Inc. on March 4, 2024, and since then he serves as the chairman of the board of directors of QT Imaging Holdings, Inc. The combined company is now listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “QTI”. Prior to launching his first Private-to-Public (PPE) company in 2017, Dr. Katz dedicated 10 years to incept and bootstrap, develop and manage GigPeak (NYSE American: formerly GIG), originally known as GigOptix, Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of GigOptix / GigPeak from its inception in 2007 until its sale in April 2017 to IDT International (Nasdaq: IDTI) for $250 million in cash. From February 2014 to September 2017, Dr. Katz was the chairman of the board of directors of Brazil-Photonics, in Campinas, Brazil, a joint venture that GigPeak established with the Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações (CPqD). While Dr. Katz was at GigPeak’s helm, the company completed 10 M&A deals. From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Katz was the chief executive officer, president, and member of the board of directors of Intransa, Inc. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Katz was the chief executive officer, president and a member of the board of directors of Equator Technologies. Prior to it, Dr. Katz held several leadership positions over the span of his career within the TMT industry since serving as member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories between 1988 and 1994, and made numerous angel investments in high-tech companies around the world, being a serial entrepreneur. He holds many U.S. and international patents, authored and co-authored more than 350 published scientific and technical articles in reputable journals, and is the editor of a number of technical books. Dr. Katz is a global philanthropist, and among many other activities, serves as board member of the NY Philharmonic Company. He is a graduate of the 1976 class of the Israeli Naval Academy, graduate of the 1979 USA Naval AS