Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 366

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 366
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 Chief Strategy Officer.

Kevin Dowdis expected to serve as the Chief Operating Officer and Director of New One Nuclear. Mr. Dowd has served as the Chief Operating Officer and Director of ONE Nuclear since January 2022. Mr. Dowd has spent 25 years in the startup, distressed and restructuring industries focusing on projects with heavy operational components. He began his career in 2000 with Nightingale & Associates, a boutique advisory firm in Stamford, Connecticut, specializing in restructurings and reorganizations of companies in highly distressed situations. In 2003, he co-founded the Berkeley Square Group where he began to take senior management roles in businesses across multiple industries, often acting as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel in such varied sectors as telecom, defense, manufacturing, retail, medical, consumer goods, automotive supply and building products. Kevin’s experience with the daily operations of businesses and the legal issues associated with them has allowed him to successfully advise companies, lenders, creditors and investors throughout the investment and restructuring processes in both domestic and offshore environments. Kevin holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and received both an MBA and JD from Wake Forest University. Mr. Dowd was selected to serve as a director due to his extensive experience in operational leadership, restructuring, and legal matters across diverse industries, as well as his deep familiarity with the Company’s business as a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer.

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Corporate Governance

New ONE Nuclear will structure its corporate governance in a manner that ONE Nuclear and HVII believe will closely align New ONE Nuclear’s interests with those of its stockholders following the Merger. Notable features of this corporate governance structure include:

| ● | independent                                                                               
 director representation on the audit committee immediately at the time of the Merger, and 
 the independent directors will meet regularly in executive sessions without the presence  
 of New ONE Nuclear’s corporate officers or non-independent directors;                     |

| ● | at                                                                           
 least one of New ONE Nuclear’s directors will qualify as an “audit committee 
 financial expert” as defined by the SEC; and                                 |

| ● | other                                                                                         
 corporate governance best practices such as implementing a robust director education program. |

Role of Board in Risk Oversight

The New ONE Nuclear Board will have extensive involvement in the oversight of risk management related to New ONE Nuclear and its business and will accomplish this oversight through the regular reporting to the New ONE Nuclear Board by the audit committee. The audit committee will represent the New ONE Nuclear Board by periodically reviewing New ONE Nuclear’s