Company: BLUWU
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001493152-25-007630
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Company: Blue Water Acquisition Corp. III
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: S-1
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 brings over 25 years of global financial, strategic growth and accounting leadership experience in tech, manufacturing, communications and electric power generation, including expertise in various government funded and regulated industries. From 2020 to present, she has served as Chief Executive Officer of CFO, COO and BPI Consulting, specializing in helping high-growth, high-change organizations scale from pre-IPO to publicly traded, with mergers, reorganizations and significant business model or enterprise system changes. Clients have included for profit and nonprofits clients in healthcare, logistics, education, utilities and multifamily real estate. During this time she also served as Chief Financial Officer of Clean Earth Acquisitions Corp., a special purpose acquisition company that completed its $230 million initial public offering in February 2022 and consummated a business combination with Alternus Energy Group in December 2023. From 2017 to 2020, as Chief Financial Officer for the Housing Authority of the City of Austin, with annual revenues over $540 million, Ms. Ross drove strategies aimed at safeguarding property, investments and funds to improve governance for more than 20,000 residents. Previously from 2012 to 2016, Ms. Ross was Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Central Region, for Hill and Knowlton Strategies, a subsidiary of WPP (the world’s largest advertising agency). She drove oversight for the Central Region, supporting the parent company’s SEC reporting and streamlining and strengthening post-merger accounting, financial reporting, Sarbanes Oxley and internal audit controls. A Texas Certified Public Accountant, based in Austin, Ms. Ross is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, holding a Chartered Global Management Accountant designation. She attended The University of Texas, obtaining both a Bachelor’s in Business Administration in Accounting and Masters in Science in Technology Commercialization.

Tim Coulsonwill serve as a member of our board of directors upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Mr. Coulson is an active researcher who plays a senior academic leadership role at the University of Oxford. Mr. Coulson has expertise in developing and delivering strategic change. He has been Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford since January 2013. His academic leadership roles at Oxford have included: Head of Department of Zoology, Chair of the University IT Committee, deputy chair of University Finance Committee, and membership of the following University committees: Council (he is a trustee of Oxford University), Finance, Planning and Resource Allocation, N