Company: CUB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001013762-25-001006
Chunk: 1107

Company: Lionheart Holdings
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9C
Chunk 1107
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. In this role, he leads Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy. From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Diaz
Cala served as Chief Operating Officer at Lionheart III, and from 2021 to 2022, Mr. Diaz Cala served as Chief Operating Officer
at Lionheart II. Since 2013, Mr. Diaz Cala has served as President and Director of The Ivy Companies Inc., a holding company
for investment. Since 2022, Mr. Diaz Cala served as Director at PataFoods, Inc., a leading company specializing in plant-based baby
food. From 2009 to 2019 Mr. Diaz Cala was an early investor and member of the executive committee of Yellowpepper Holding Corporation,
a l fintech company, where he and Lionheart Capital were instrumental in its fundraising, operations and successful exit to Visa in 2020.
From 2004 until its strategic sale to Van Drunen Farms, in 2019, Mr. Diaz Cala was also an investor and operator of Southam Freeze
Dry SPA, a leading freeze dry and Consumer Package Company located in Santiago Chile with sales worldwide.

Mr. Diaz
Cala began his professional career at First Union National Bank and then worked for Mr. Edmond Safra at Republic National Bank of
New York in various senior executive positions until the sale of the bank to HSBC. Mr. Diaz Cala has held additional roles
as an investor, executive, and board member at various other public and private companies in the US and internationally during the past
30 years. He has also served on the boards of several non-profit organizations and educational institutions, including The Wharton
School, Florida International University, and others. He received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania.

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Thomas
Hawkins, who has served as one of our directors since June 2024, previously served as a Management Consultant for MEDNAX, Inc. from
February 2014 to December 2017, after serving as General Counsel and Board Secretary from April 2003 to August 2012.
Prior to that, Mr. Hawkins worked for New River Capital Partners as a Partner from January 2000 to March 2003; AutoNation,
Inc. as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development