Company: AIRJW
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-054710
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Company: AirJoule Technologies Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
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. Mr. Porter also serves on Denham Capital’s Investment Committee and Valuation Committee. Mr. Porter has served on the Board of Directors of ChampionX Corporation (Nasdaq: CHX) since June 3, 2020 and on the Board of Directors of GameSquare Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GAME) since April 2023. Prior to founding Denham Capital in 2004, Mr. Porter was a founding partner of Sowood Capital Management LP and, prior thereto, was employed as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Harvard Management Company, Inc., where he focused on public and private transactions in the energy and commodities sectors. Mr. Porter previously worked for Bacon Investments and at J. Aron, a division of Goldman Sachs. While at J. Aron, he worked on the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index desk. Prior to joining J. Aron, Mr. Porter was a self-employed trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and was employed by Cargill Incorporated in Minnetonka, Minnesota in the Financial Markets Division. Mr. Porter received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We believe that Mr. Porter is qualified to serve as a member of the Board due to his extensive senior investment experience and leadership skills.

Continuing Directors

Max S. Baucus.Mr. Baucus has served as a member of the Board since the consummation of the Business Combination. In 2014, then-U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Mr. Baucus to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China, a position he held until 2017. Ambassador Baucus formerly served as the senior United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014 and was Montana’s longest serving U.S. Senator. While in the Senate, Ambassador Baucus was Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance (the “Finance Committee”). As chairman of the Finance Committee, he was the chief architect of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2009. In addition, as chairman of the Finance Committee, Ambassador Baucus led the passage and enactment of the Free Trade Agreements with 11 countries. While serving on the Senate Agriculture Committee, he led the securement of reauthorization for numerous farm bills. As a member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, he guided many highway bills