Company: BLZRW
Filing Date: 2025-09-11
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001213900-25-086656
Chunk: 14

Company: Trailblazer Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-09-11
Form: 424B4
Chunk 14
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 Auctions, both based in Los Angeles. Finally, he is a board observer of New York -basedDoodles, the digital web 3 entertainment company. Mr. Smith has been on hiatus for the last two years, but for the prior two decades has been an adjunct professor of finance and strategy at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he taught the course Strategy & Finance for Technology, Media and Entertainment Companies. He returns to Stern in autumn 2025 to teach a course on AI and human creativity. Prior to his current roles, Mr. Smith had decades serving as a chief executive officer or division president of both public and private companies. Most recently he was the CEO of the private -equitybacked roll up of the privately paid home care business, called TheKey, from November 2020 to July 2023. Previously, he was the President and CEO of the global auction house Sotheby’s, serving from March 2015 through October 2019, when he successfully digitized, expanded, modernized, and then sold the company in a multibillion dollar transaction. From February 2014 to March 2015, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Madison Square Garden Company, a publicly -traded, diversified cable media, live entertainment, and sports company that included the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers. From 2009 to February 2014, Mr. Smith was President, Local Media, of Cablevision, as well as responsible for Cablevision Media Sales. From 2000 to 2009, he worked for Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a worldwide media company, where he last served as chief executive officer of the company’s U.S. business -to -businessdivision, Reed Business Information. Before these roles, he was a division head of BMG Entertainment, the music company; and of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the (then public) hotel company; as well as a manager with McKinsey & Company, Inc in the Los Angeles office. He began his career at JP Morgan & Company in the corporate finance group. Mr. Smith currently serves on many nonprofit boards including the Board of Governors of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, the Hospital for Special Surgery Florida, the Norton Museum, the Palm Beach Preservation Foundation, and the Palm Beach Civic Association. He is a former member of Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors, and a current member of CNBC’s Inside Wealth Advisory Board. Mr. Smith received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard