Company: CLSO
Filing Date: 2025-09-23
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-090236
Chunk: 168

Company: Climate Transition Special Opportunities SPAC I
Filing Date: 2025-09-23
Form: S-1
Chunk 168
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” and “Best Distress Manager” in a 2009 peer vote conducted by Private Equity International Magazine. Before joining Oaktree, Mr. Zulkoski was Chairman and CEO of Pangaea Capital Management (Asia), a firm he founded and scaled to five offices and nearly $2 billion in AUM before its acquisition by Oaktree in 2007. His earlier roles include Founding Partner and CEO of Colony Capital Asia Pacific, as well as senior leadership positions at GE Capital, where he served as the head of Asia Real Estate, and Executive Director at Oakwood Asia Pacific as well as Vice President at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Across these roles, Mr. Zulkoski demonstrated a capacity to build high -performinginvestment platforms and navigate complex cross -bordertransactions with institutional rigor and strategic foresight. Mr. Zulkoski holds a post graduate degree in real estate from New York University. Andy Childs,our Chief Financial Officer, is a seasoned financial executive with over 15 years of experience driving strategic growth through capital raises, financial planning, and operational scaling. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer at Sustainable Credit Partners since December 2024, Operating Partner of Finance at Conduit Capital since April 2024, and Founder of EltonMac since December 2020. Prior to these roles, Mr. Childs served as Chief Financial Officer at SUNation Energy from September 2024 to March 2025. At SUNation Energy, he was appointed to lead the financial stabilization and restructuring of the company, successfully executing a $20 million equity raise with standard warrant terms, as well as negotiating a $9 million reduction in outstanding debt liabilities. Mr. Childs previously served as North American Finance Director at Soho House & Co., where he orchestrated financial oversight of the North American Division, managing operations exceeding $100 million in annual revenue. 114 In parallel, he provided strategic guidance to executive leadership in developing feasibility analyses, performance KPIs, and decision -makingmetrics that informed the company’s new site selection framework. Mr. Childs holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of Portsmouth. Gary Julien, our Independent Director Nominee, has over 25 years of M&A, investment, capital raising/capital markets and corporate finance experience including across domestic and international M&A and investments in both the public and private markets on behalf of both public and private companies. From November 2017 through March 2025, Mr.Julien served as a Managing Director at Schult