Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-155514
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Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: DEFM14A
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 IFC’s South Asia Department. Until September 1999, Mr. Tropper served in IFC’s Latin America and Caribbean Department, where
he was responsible for identifying and structuring IFC’s investments in the financial sector in the Caribbean and Chile, and for recommending investment strategies that contribute to the development of the region’s capital markets.
Mr. Tropper also served as the first head of IFC’s Emerging Markets Data Base unit, which has since been sold to Standard & Poor’s. Mr. Tropper joined IFC in 1984, after several years as Deputy Director of the Northeast-
Midwest Institute in Washington, D.C. Mr. Tropper has a B.A. from Yale University, an MBA from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS). We believe Mr. Tropper’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his extensive experience in emerging markets and his investment experience.

Salman Alam serves as a director. Mr. Alam is Vice President, Legal, at Western Digital Corporation, a leading provider of data storage
technologies, where he has been responsible for worldwide product development and go-to-market technology legal issues since 2016. With over 15 years of legal experience in the corporate legal sector, he also serves as a principal counsel for the
flash technology and consumer products business unit, dealing with emerging product regulatory issues within the data ecosystem in markets across the world, including in artificial intelligence, licensing, and data privacy. He has also served as
Board Director for CSLM since 2022. Mr. Alam also previously served in roles of increasing responsibility at Western Digital, including Sr. Director, Assistant General, Director, Associate General Counsel, Director, Senior Legal Counsel, and Senior
Counsel. Prior to Western Digital, Mr. Alam has served as a legal executive to technology startups focused on mobile and web business models, as well as a corporate transactional attorney at Newmeyer & Dillion, LLP, where he represented emerging
and established companies in corporate transactions, M&A, capital markets, and corporate governance matters. Mr. Alam received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, with two majors in Economics and South & Southeast Asian
Studies (high honors), and minors in Business Administration (Haas

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School of Business) and Philosophy, respectively. He also received a law degree from the University of California, Hastings. He has additionally completed coursework in the executive education