Company: BLZRW
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-080183
Chunk: 162

Company: Trailblazer Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 162
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 the Chief Financial Officer at TCS Capital Management, LLC. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer of TCS from February 2001 to July 2008. From January 2009 to February 2010, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Long Oar Global Investors. From 1999 to 2001 he was a Senior Accountant at Resurgence Asset Management LLC. From 1995 to 1999 he was a Fund Accountant at Tiger Management Corp. Mr. Smith received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Boston College. Independent Director Nominees Thomas S. (“Tad”) Smith, Jr .will serve as an independent director immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq. Since June 2023, Mr. Smith has been a partner in 1RoundTable Partners LLC and 10T Holdings, LLC which are growth equity funds that invest in companies creating a new economy out of digital assets. Since March 2020, Mr. Smith has also been the CEO of Durable Money LLC, which is an investment firm that he co -owns, focused on technology companies as well as provides strategic advisory services to CEOs who want to accelerate their performance. Since March 2020, Mr. Smith has served as a director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LIND), a leading sea and land -basedexpedition company (operating under the “National Geographic” brand). Mr. Smith is Chairman of the Board of Futureverse Corp., the privately held, Auckland -based, crypto technology and AI company for leading web and sports brands, as well as a longtime board member of Simulmedia Inc., a private advertising technology company based in New York. He is also a board member of New York -basedcrypto media company Blockworks, and of Swan Bitcoin and the collectibles company Julien’s Auctions, both based in Los Angeles. Finally, he is a board observer of New York -basedDoodles, the digital web 3 entertainment company. Mr. Smith has been on hiatus for the last two years, but for the prior two decades has been an adjunct professor of finance and strategy at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he taught the course Strategy & Finance for Technology, Media and Entertainment Companies. He returns to Stern in autumn 2025 to teach a course on AI and human creativity. Prior to his current roles, Mr. Smith had decades serving as a chief executive officer or division president of both