Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-15
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001493152-25-002259
Chunk: 186

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-15
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 186
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 a BS in Industrial Management from Purdue University. Mr. Saade is qualified to serve as a director of the Company due to his extensive operating, entrepreneurial, strategy, capital allocation, and governance experience with public and private companies.

Poonam Sharmawill be one of our independent directors as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Ms. Sharma has served as an Investment Committee Advisor of Healthy Home Innovation Fund since March 2024 and as an Independent Director of Lumen Energy since January 2024. Ms. Sharma previously served as an Independent Director of Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. III from May 2021 to December 2023, which completed its business combination with Mobile Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE American: BEEP). Ms. Sharma is also a serial entrepreneur, real estate industry veteran and public speaker with a passion for innovating around the built world. Most recently CEO of Raise, she aimed to revolutionize childcare for the future of work. Previously, she founded StealthForce, (the gig economy of real estate; a resource and project management platform for CRE), which was exited in early 2019. Prior to StealthForce, she was Deputy to the Head of Global Real Estate Asset Management at Partners Group AG ($40 billion AUM), and earlier employee 13 at The Gerson Lehrman Group, which was the world’s first institutional expert network. Ms. Sharma earned her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard and Master of Business Administration at Wharton, and spent over a decade in real estate development and investment. Ms. Sharma is well qualified to serve as a director due to her past leadership experience.

Prior Blank Check Experience

All of the members or our management team have had prior experience with SPACs, as more fully discussed above.

The past performance of our management team is not a guarantee either (i) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate or (ii) that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our initial business combination. You should not rely on the historical record of our management’s performance as indicative of our future performance.

Number and Terms of Office of Officers and Directors

Our board of directors will consist of seven members. Holders of our founder shares have the right to elect all of our directors or remove any one of them for any reason prior to consummation of our initial business combination and holders of our public shares will not have the right to vote on the appointment or removal of directors during such time. These provisions of our amended and restated