Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-155514
Chunk: 356

Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 356
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| Salman Alam     |     |  42 |     | Director                                                      |

Charles Casselhas been our Director since April 13, 2021 and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since July 20, 2021. Mr. Cassel is the co-Founderand Chief Executive Officer of CIM. Mr. Cassel is responsible for the risk management for CIM’s investment strategies, the day-to-dayoperations of CIM, the Sponsor Manager, and all non-equityportfolio management initiatives, and also serves as the Chief Compliance Officer. Before co-foundingConsilium in 2004, Mr. Cassel had held the position as Head of Emerging Markets Portfolio Management at Standard Asset Management since 1999. Prior to that, between 1997 and 1999, Mr. Cassel was at Americas Trust Bank as an Emerging Market debt portfolio manager and was earlier the Chief Financial Officer for the US subsidiary of Banco Cafetero de Colombia between 1992 and 1997, where, among other responsibilities, he ran the bank’s international treasury book. Earlier, he was a Portfolio Manager of mortgage-backed securities at Bank Atlantic, a federally chartered savings bank. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Cassel served as a director of Panache Beverages, Inc. Mr. Cassel holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington & Lee University and a M.Acc. in Accounting from Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, he is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute. We believe Mr. Cassel’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his extensive investment experience as well as his experience developing operating and financing strategies alongside management. Jonathan Binderhas been our Director since April 13, 2021 and Chairman since July 20, 2021. Mr. Binder is the co-Founderof CIM and has served as Chief Investment Officer for CIM’s Frontier Equity since 2009, and Portfolio Manager for CIM’s Extended Opportunities Fund Strategies since 2018. Prior to co-founding 225

Consilium, Mr. Binder spent four years at Standard Asset Management, a division of the Standard Bank Group of South Africa, as Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Binder had previously spent
two years at Americas Trust Bank where he was an Emerging Market equity hedge fund portfolio manager. Prior to this, Mr. Binder was Managing Director of Latin American Equity Capital Markets at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and before that, launched
James Capel’s equity sales trading and