Company: WENNU
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-016948
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Company: WEN Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: DRS
Chunk 204
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 million in its initial public offering in October 2024 and is currently searching for a business combination target among technology and software infrastructure companies whose products and services target financial services, real estate and asset management companies. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Newcourt Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: NCAC) from June 2023 until January 2024, overseeing NCAC’s merger with Psyence Biomedical (Nasdaq: PBM). Mr. van de Vyver was the head of finance and operations at Propel Venture Partners, a venture capital fund backed by BBVA Group, from 2017 to 2021. Mr. van de Vyver also served as a consultant from 2015 to 2017 for CrossCountry Consulting, where his clients included Lending Club (NYSE: LC), Danaher (NYSE: DHR) and Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (NYSE: VAC). Josh Friedwill serve as an independent director and Co -ViceChairman of the Board immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq. Mr. Fried has nearly 25 years of technology, media and product experience as an executive, general manager and investor. Mr. Fried currently leads the Solana Foundation’s growth effort focused on commerce, loyalty, merchant payments and ticketing, a post he has held since January 2023. The Solana Foundation is a non -profitfoundation based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana blockchain ecosystem. Prior to this role, from July 2021 to January 2023, Mr. Fried held a business development role at Solana Labs, a commercial entity based in San Francisco which builds products, tools and reference implementations on the Solana blockchain.

135 At Solana Labs, he co -ledthe launch of the Solana Pay protocol, an open -sourceframework for merchant payments using stablecoins. During his decade -longtenure at Google, from 2011 to 2021, Mr. Fried led the launch and growth of Waze Carpool across all 50 U.S. states, Israel, Brazil and Mexico, and led a Google Shopping business development team focused on brands and manufacturers. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Fried built and managed digital properties for NBCUniversal (acquired by Comcast), including several leading destination websites. Mr. Fried’s career began on the content side of the media business, holding editorial and production jobs at STANFORD magazine from 2001 to