Company: CXAI
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001829126-25-002441
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Company: CXApp Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: PRE 14A
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has been serving as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CXApp since March 14, 2023, when the company went public through
its Merger with KINS. Mr. Sheikh previously was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KINS since its inception in
July 2020. Mr. Sheikh has been at the forefront of innovation in the technology, mobile, semiconductor, telecom and media industries
for the past 25 years with CEO and CTO roles at leading technology companies. Since March 2020, Mr. Sheikh has been the Founder,
Executive Chairman & CEO of Aijaad, a boutique strategic advisory firm where he advises both large private equity firms as well as
boards of public companies on the future of 5G, IoT, Edge Computing and AI technologies and is actively involved in M&A, technology
strategy and market development. From 2016 to early 2020, Mr. Sheikh was the CEO of kwikbit, a private company building a “network
as a service” solution using gigabit radios, edge compute, virtualization and artificial intelligence. Prior to kwikbit, in 2014,
Mr. Sheikh was appointed as the Chief Strategy and Technology Officer for Silicon Image (SIMG) and the President/CEO of its millimeter
wave/5G subsidiary SiBEAM. SIMG was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor (Nasdaq:LSCC) in 2015 for $600 million after which Mr. Sheikh
was appointed the Chief Strategy and Technology Officer of the combined company responsible for corporate strategy, roadmap, M&A and
technology development and was there until 2016. From 2007 onwards, he was the CTO for Powerwave Technologies, a large wireless infrastructure
vendor. Powerwave filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2013, and in April 2013, Mr. Sheikh was appointed
as the CEO of Powerwave to help with the sale of the company. Later that year, Mr. Sheikh successfully facilitated the sale of approximately
1,400 patents owned by Powerwave to private equity firm Gores Group. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Sheikh was Vice President, Wireless Strategy
and Development at Time Warner Cable leading the cable company’s entry into the wireless space. From 1996 to 2005, Mr. Sheikh
held senior technology roles at Sprint including CTO Mobile Broadband where he was responsible for deploying the world’s first 4G
system and the acquisition