Company: AIRJW
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-054710
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Company: AirJoule Technologies Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
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J. Kyle Derham.Mr. Derham has served as a member of the Board since April 2024 and as the Lead Independent Director since March 2025. Mr. Derham is a partner at Rice Investment Group, where he has served since January 2018. Mr. Derham served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Rice Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: RONI), a special purpose acquisition company (“RONI”), from February 2022 until RONI completed its initial business combination with Net Power, LLC in June 2023. Upon closing of the business combination, RONI changed its name to “NET Power Inc.” Mr. Derham has continued to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Net Power, Inc. (NYSE: NPWR) since June 2023. Mr. Derham served as the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Rice Acquisition Corp. I (NYSE: RICE), a special purpose acquisition company (“RICE”), from October 2020 until September 2021 when RICE completed its initial business combination with Archaea Energy II LLC and Aria Energy LLC. Upon closing of the business combination, RICE changed its name to “Archaea Energy Inc.” Mr. Derham served as a member of the Board of Directors of Archaea Energy Inc. (NYSE: LFG) from September 2021 through December 2022, when Archaea Energy Inc. was acquired by BP Products North America Inc. From July 2019 through December 2021, Mr. Derham served as interim Chief Financial Officer of EQT Corporation (“EQT”) and subsequently served as a strategic advisor to EQT. Mr. Derham previously served as Vice President, Corporate Development and Finance of Rice Energy and Rice Midstream from January 2014 through November 2017. Mr. Derham also has experience as a private equity investor, working as an associate at First Reserve and as an investment banker at Barclays Investment Bank. Mr. Derham earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Mr. Derham is qualified to serve as a member of the Board due to his extensive public company and executive management experience.

Ajay Agrawal.Mr. Agrawal has served as a member of the Board since the consummation of the Business Combination. Mr. Agrawal is the