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 1C
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 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 II, Hennessy III, Hennessy IV, Hennessy V and Hennessy VI.

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Thomas
D. Hennessy has served as our Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors since August 2023. He has served as a Managing Partner
of Growth Strategies of Hennessy Capital Group, LLC, an alternative investment firm founded in 2013 that focuses on investing in industrial,
infrastructure, real estate and sustainable technologies. Since January 2025, Mr. Hennessy has served as President, Chief Operating Officer,
and director of Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII, a special acquisition company. Mr. Hennessy has previously served as a Chairman
and CEO of Global Technology Acquisition Corp. I, a SPAC. Mr. Hennessy has previously served as a director of TortoiseEcofin Acquisition
Corporation III, a SPAC. Mr. Hennessy has previously