Company: BLZRW
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-080183
Chunk: 204

Company: Trailblazer Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 204
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60 |     | Chief Executive Officer and Director |
| Eamon P. Smith               |     |  52 |     | Chief Financial Officer              |
| Thomas S. (“Tad”) Smith, Jr. |     |  59 |     | Director Nominee                     |
| Thomas J. Lee                |     |  54 |     | Director Nominee                     |
| Steven Silverstein           |     |  65 |     | Director Nominee                     |

Eric Semlerhas served as our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our board of directors since inception in June 2025. Mr. Semler is a public and private market investor in technology and media. His long/short investment fund, TCS Capital Management, LLC (“TCS”), which he founded in 2001 and converted into a family office in 2017, was, at its peak, among the largest independent technology, media and telecom investment funds worldwide. Mr. Semler has helped unlock value for several public companies as an active shareholder and/or board member. Since April 2023 he has served Chairman of the Board of Semler Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMLR), a medical device and software business and the second U.S. public company to adopt bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset. Since 2021, he has served on the board of Fundstrat Global Advisors, an independent financial services firm. Mr. Semler has previously served on three public company boards: Angie’s List, Inc., The Maven, Inc. (now known as Arena Group Holdings, Inc.) and Geeknet Inc. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1987, Mr. Semler began his career as a journalist working for The New York Times and for the Moscow News in Russia. After graduating from Harvard University with both J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 1994, Mr. Semler was an associate at James D. Wolfensohn & Co for three years, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. From 1997 to 1998, he was an investment banking principal in the media and communications group at Montgomery Securities. Mr. Semler is the co -authorof two books published by Harper Collins: The Language of Nuclear War and The Businessman’s Guide to Moscow. In 2019, Mr. Semler and his wife Tracy founded and developed the Raising Fame podcast franchise, partnering with NBA parents Dell and Sonya Curry to tell stories about raising extraordinary athletes. In 2024, they