Company: CHPG
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001013762-25-002932
Chunk: 18

Company: ChampionsGate Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 18
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 Apricot Delivery, a Thailand e -commercedelivery service, in 2021 to 2022, and founded and served as the CEO of Dine In, a London -basedrestaurant delivery start -up, between 2010 and 2015. Earlier in his career, after founding and managing several internet businesses in the late 1990s, Mr. Graj spent for almost a decade in the financial industry, leading several algorithm trading practices at several London -basedinvestment banks and asset managers, including Bear Stearns, Newedge Group and Knight Capital. Mr. Graj holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master’s Degree in Chemical Physics from Columbia University. Mr.Graj has been nominated as a director nominee for Shepherd Ave Capital Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands SPAC seeking Nasdaq listing. We believe that Mr. Graj’s experience as an experienced entrepreneur, investor and operator in technology companies makes him well suited to serve as a member of our board of directors. William W. Snyder, Director Nomineewho will become our director upon the effectiveness of this prospectus ,has extensive experience in corporate finance, financial advisory and business consulting. Since February 2020, Mr. Snyder has served as Managing Partner of Daedalus Analytics International, a provider of business intelligence and strategy advisory 3 services. In addition, since June 2024, Mr.Snyder has also served as the Chairman, CEO and director of Shepherd Ave Capital Acquisition Corporation, a Cayman Islands SPAC seeking Nasdaq listing. Before that, between February 2015 and February 2020, Mr. Snyder served as Managing Director, Transaction Advisory Services (TAS), at Ernst & Young (EY). As a senior leader of EY’s TAS practices, Mr. Snyder led diverse, cross -functionalteams on a variety of complex financial advisory engagements and served as relationship leaders for major defense, technology, and government clients in the U.S. East Coast. Prior to joining EY, Mr. Snyder served as Managing Director, Valuation Advisory Services, at Alvarez & Marshall, from August 2013 to October 2014, where he was responsible for setting up and growing the Washington, D.C. based financial valuation practice for the management consulting firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Snyder served as a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps’ Shanghai office, serving as the country leader for the global investment management and advisory firm’s China practice for five years between 2008 to