Company: WENNU
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0001013762-25-004273
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Company: WEN Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DRS/A
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 CNN (2000), the San Francisco Giants baseball club (2005), and Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated magazine (2006). Mr. Fried earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Stanford in 2001 and an MBA from the Yale School of Management in 2007. We believe that Mr. Fried’s experience in the blockchain and consumer internet sector qualifies him to be a member of our board of directors. Sheraz Sherewill serve as an independent director and Co -ViceChairman of the board of directors immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq. Mr. Shere has over 25 years of financial services and technology experience as a founder, executive and investor. Mr. Shere is the General Manager of the Payments vertical at the Solana Foundation, a role he has held since January2023. Prior to his role at the Solana Foundation, from July 2021 to January 2023, Mr. Shere held a leadership role at Solana Labs, a commercial entity based in San Francisco which builds products, tools and reference implementations that can be used on the Solana blockchain. At Solana Labs, Mr. Shere led the launch of the Solana Pay protocol, an open source framework for merchant payments using stablecoins. Prior to his work in the Solana ecosystem, from July 2018 to June 2021, Mr. Shere worked at Google, where he led an AI services team in the Google Cloud division, focused on digital transformation for Fortune 50 companies; Mr. Shere led large teams of technology professionals working with the largest telecom companies in the world to transform their contact centers with AI In 2014, Mr. Shere co -foundeda fintech data company, Commerce Signals, and served as its COO, leading the product, go -to -marketand sales functions. Commerce Signals was acquired by Verisk (NASDAQ: VRSK) in December of 2019. Prior to founding Commerce Signals, from 2008 to 2014, Mr. Shere worked at Google, where he led all of sales and business development for the Google Checkout product. From there, he joined the founding team of Google Pay and led the merchant business development efforts to enable the launch of an Android based mobile payments ecosystem in the U.S. Drew Gloverwill serve as an independent director immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq. Mr. Glover brings over 15 years of experience at the intersection of financial services, technology, and