Company: CDAQF
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-000421
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Company: Compass Digital Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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Business Combination with Porch.com, Inc. in December 2020. From January 2017 to October 2018, Mr. Hennessy served as Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Officer of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. III, or Hennessy III, which merged with NRC Group Holdings, LLC,
a global provider of environmental compliance and waste management services, and is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Republic Services,
Inc (NYSE: RSG) and served as a director from January 2017 to October 2019. From April 2015 to February 2017, Mr. Hennessy served as
Chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. II, or Hennessy II, which merged with Daseke in February 2017 and is now known
as Daseke, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE) and previously served as its Vice Chairman from February 2017 to June 2021. From September 2013 to February
2015, Mr. Hennessy served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp., or Hennessy I,
which merged with School Bus Holdings Inc. in February 2015 and is now known as Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD), and previously
served as a director from September 2013 to April 2019. From 1988 to 2015, Mr. Hennessy served as a Partner at Code Hennessy & Simmons
LLC (“CHS”), a Chicago based middle-market private equity investment firm he co-founded in 1988. Prior to forming CHS, Mr.
Hennessy was employed by Citicorp from 1984 to 1988 as head of the Midwest Region for Citicorp Mezzanine Investments and Vice President
and Team Leader with Citicorp Leveraged Capital Group. He began his career in 1981 in the oil and gas lending group at Continental Illinois
National Bank (now Bank of America) where he was a Banking Officer. Mr. Hennessy holds a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Boston College
and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Mr. Hennessy is qualified to serve as one of our directors due
to his experience in private equity and public and private company board governance, as well as his background in finance and his experience
with Hennessy I, Hennessy