Company: FLDDW
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001213900-25-003167
Chunk: 377

Company: Fold Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 377
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 the University of Delaware with a B.S. in accounting. Mark Tercekhas served as a director and Vice Chairman of Emerald’s board of directors since December 2021. He is a global conservation leader and financial professional with expertise in conservation finance, corporate sustainability, and cross -sectorcollaboration. From 2008 to 2019, Mark served as CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the largest private conservation organization in the United States. Under Mr. Tercek’s leadership, The Nature Conservancy launched NatureVest, the impact capital initiative, ran a $7 billion capital fundraising campaign, and established a permanent department focused on gender, diversity, equity and inclusion (GDEI). Prior to serving as CEO of The Nature Conservancy, Mr. Tercek served as Managing Director and Partner at Goldman Sachs, where over time he had responsibility for managing several of the firm’s key units, including Corporate Finance, Real Estate Investment Banking, Equity Capital Markets, and Pine Street, the firm’s leadership development program. In 2005, he was tapped to develop Goldman Sachs’s environmental strategy and to lead its Environmental Markets Group. In addition, Mr. Tercek has advised on boards and councils for a number of global organizations, including the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health, Acumen, the AXA Stakeholders Advisory Panel, and Resources for the Future. From 2003 until 2008, Mr. Tercek was on the finance faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business. Since 2016, he has served on the Board of Trustees of Williams College. He is the co -authorof the Washington Post and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling book Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. Mr. Tercek earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1984 and a B.A. from Williams College in 1979. Independent Directors Tensie Whelanhas served as a director of Emerald since December 2021. Ms. Whelan is Clinical Professor of Business and Society and Director of NYU Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business, where she brings 25 years of experience working to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming 234 of sustainability. As President of the Rainforest Alliance from June 2000 until September 2015, she led the organization’s substantial growth and established the Rainforest Alliance