Company: PAII-WT
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-059054
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Company: Pyrophyte Acquisition Corp. II
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: S-1
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 and scientific advisor for DexMat, Inc. since 2015. His laboratory studies the interplay of energy, materials and carbon, and is pioneering system -levelpathways to decarbonize the industrial sector by using carbon materials while co -producingclean hydrogen. Dr. Pasquali leads an academic team that received the first Kavli Foundation Exploration Award in Nanoscience for Sustainability in 2023. Dr. Pasquali is also the founding director of the Carbon Hub, a partnership formed in 2019 between academia, industry and federal labs encompassing over 20 organizations across four continents. The Carbon Hub develops and deploys pathways for simultaneously harvesting zero -emissionhydrogen and carbon materials that can reduce emissions from industry and transportation. Dr. Pasquali is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has won numerous awards including the NSF CAREER in 2001, the Goradia Innovation Grand Prize in 2014, the Herschel Rich Invention Award in

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2016, the Schlack Prize for Man -MadeFibers in 2014 and the Rice Presidential Mentoring Award in 2020. Since 2018, Dr. Pasquali has also served as president of Pasquali SWNT Consulting, LLC, for which he provides strategic advice on carbon nanotechnology. We believe Mr.Pasquali is well -qualifiedto serve on our board of directors because of his academic experience in the energy industry. Advisors to the Board of Directors We intend to form an advisory board comprised of Christopher Abbate, Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. and David M. Leuschen, which appointments shall take effect upon the closing of this offering. Such individuals will assist our management team with sourcing and evaluating business opportunities and devising plans and strategies to optimize any business that we acquire following the consummation of this offering. The advisors are neither paid nor reimbursed for any out -of -pocketexpenses in connection with the search of acquisition targets before or after the consummation of our initial business combination. We have not currently entered into any formal arrangements or agreements with the members of our advisory board to provide services to us and they will have no fiduciary obligations to present business opportunities to us. Christopher Abbate.Mr. Abbate is a Managing Partner and Co -CEOof Breakwall Capital. He is based in Newport, Rhode Island and New York. Previously, Mr. Abbate