Company: WENNU
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-016948
Chunk: 209

Company: WEN Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: DRS
Chunk 209
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2022. From 2012 to 2014, he served as a venture partner at Clean Pacific Ventures Management, LLC, a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. Mr. Patel was also a partner at, and served on the executive committee of, Hexagon Securities, LLC, a credit focused investment bank and securities firm from 2010 to 2012. From 2001 to August 2009, he served as Managing Director and Senior Partner at Cohen & Company, helping to launch Alesco Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AFN), where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer from 2006 to 137 2009. From 1999 to 2000, he served as Chief Financial Officer for TRM Corporation (NASDAQ: TRMM), a consumer and financial services company. In 2000, Mr. Patel co -foundediATMglobal.net, a middleware software business where he served as Chief Executive Officer and which was sold to NCR Corporation in 2001. Mr. Patel also served on the Board of Visitors of Duke University School of Law from 2011 to 2023 and where he was a Senior Lecturing Fellow. Mr. Patel received a Juris Doctor with honors and Master of Business Administration from Duke University and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics from Trinity University. We currently expect our advisors to (i) assist us in sourcing and negotiating with potential business combination targets and (ii) provide their business insights when we assess potential business combination targets. In this regard, they will fulfill some of the same functions as our board members. However, they have no written advisory agreement with us. Our advisors (Ryan Gilbert and Shami Patel) own a pecuniary interest in the founder shares held by our sponsor, but are not currently party to any agreements to receive additional compensation. Our advisors will not be under any fiduciary obligations to us nor will they perform board or committee functions. They will also not be required to devote any specific amount of time to our efforts or be subject to the fiduciary requirements to which our board members are subject. Accordingly, if any of our advisors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for any of the entities to which he has fiduciary or contractual obligations (including other blank check companies), he will honor his fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity, and only present it to us if such entity rejects the opportunity. We may modify or expand our roster of