Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001741
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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, an alternative investment company, since August 2023, as Chief Financial Officer of Compass Digital Acquisition Corp
(NASDAQ: CDAQ), a SPAC, and since April 2024, as Chief Financial Officer of Global Technology Acquisition Corp. I, a SPAC that liquidated
its trust account and delisted its securities from Nasdaq in October 2024.

HVII
believes potential sellers of target businesses will favorably view its management team’s credentialed experience of closing and
advising on the completion or announcement of 13 business combinations with vehicles similar to HVII in considering whether or not to
enter into a business combination with it. However, past performance by members of its management team is not a guarantee either (i)
of success with respect to any business combination HVII may consummate or (ii) that HVII will be able to identify a suitable candidate
for its initial business combination. Investors should not rely on the historical record of HVII’s management’s performance
as indicative of its future performance.

HVII
believes its management team is well-positioned to take advantage of the growing set of acquisition opportunities focused on industrial
technology solutions and energy transition opportunities in the United States and internationally, to create value for its shareholders
and that its contacts and relationships, including owners of private and public companies, private equity funds, investment bankers,
attorneys, accountants and business brokers, will allow it to generate attractive acquisition opportunities. The management team is led
by Daniel J. Hennessy, who has over 30 years of experience in the private equity investment business and over 10 years of experience
in the SPAC asset class.

Seasoned
Board of Directors with Relevant Industry Experience

HVII
has recruited and organized a group of seven highly accomplished and engaged directors who have public company governance, executive
leadership, operations oversight and capital markets expertise. The board members have served as directors, chief executive officers,
chief financial officers or in other executive and advisory capacities for numerous publicly-listed and privately-owned companies. The
directors have extensive experience with acquisitions, divestitures and corporate strategy and possess relevant domain expertise in the
sectors where HVII expects to source business combination targets including, but not limited to, industrial technology and energy transition.
HVII’s believes that these directors’ collective expertise, contacts and relationships make HVII a highly competitive and
desirable merger partner. The backgrounds of independent directors are highlighted below:

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