Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-155514
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Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: DEFM14A
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of Energy Solutions & Chief Strategy Officer with Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG), an American company engaged in the development of hydrogen fuel cell systems, since April 2019. Prior to joining Plug Power, Mr. Shrestha held various
executive investing and investment banking roles, including CIO of a solar IPP, President of Sky Capital Americas, head of renewables investment banking effort at FBR Capital Markets, global head of renewables research coverage at Lazard Capital
Markets, and head of renewables and industrial research at First Albany Capital. Mr. Shrestha holds a Bachelors of Sciences, and an honorary doctorate from Saint Rose College. Mr. Shrestha is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of
Directors based on his significant technology, investment banking, and public company experience.

Salman Alam has served as a
director of CSLM since 2022 and will serve as a member of the Pubco Board. Mr. Alam is Vice President, Legal, at Western Digital Corporation, a leading provider of data storage technologies, where he has been responsible for worldwide product
development and go-to-market technology legal issues since 2016. With over 15 years of legal experience in the corporate legal sector, he also serves as a principal counsel for the flash technology and consumer products business unit, dealing with
emerging product regulatory issues within the data ecosystem in markets across the world, including in artificial intelligence, licensing, and data privacy. He has also served as Board Director for CSLM since 2022. Mr. Alam also previously served in
roles of increasing responsibility at Western Digital, including Sr. Director, Assistant General, Director, Associate General Counsel, Director, Senior Legal Counsel, and Senior Counsel. Prior to Western Digital, Mr. Alam has served as a legal
executive to technology startups focused on mobile and web business models, as well as a corporate transactional attorney at Newmeyer & Dillion, LLP, where he represented emerging and established companies in corporate transactions, M&A,
capital markets, and corporate governance matters. Mr. Alam received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, with two majors in Economics and South &

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Southeast Asian Studies (high honors), and minors in Business Administration (Haas School of Business) and Philosophy, respectively. He also received a law degree from the University of
California, Hastings. He has additionally completed coursework in the executive education program at Columbia Business School. We believe Mr. Alam’s qualifications to serve