Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001493152-25-001958
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-01-13
Form: S-1/A
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 for Small and Emerging Companies at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), and subsequently served                                                               
 on the Presidential Transition at the Department of Treasury and the White House’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.                                                           
 Prior to public service he spent over 20 years in investing, entrepreneurial, operating and advisory roles at McKinsey & Company,                                                                  
 Booz Allen & Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Bridgewater Associates, Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT), and Air America, a company he co-founded.                                                              
 He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Operations & Technology from Illinois Institute of Technology and a BS in Industrial                                                        
 Management from Purdue University.                                                                                                                                                                 |

| ● | Poonam                                                                                            
 Sharma will be one of our independent directors as of the effective date of the registration      
 statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Ms. Sharma has served as an Investment Committee 
 Advisor of Healthy Home Innovation Fund since March 2024 and as an Independent Director of        
 Lumen Energy since January 2024. Ms. Sharma previously served as an Independent Director          
 of Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. III from May 2021 to December 2023, which completed its business  
 combination with Mobile Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE American: BEEP). Ms. Sharma is also      
 a serial entrepreneur, real estate industry veteran and public speaker with a passion for         
 innovating around the built world. Most recently CEO of Raise, she aimed to revolutionize         
 childcare for the future of work. Previously, she founded StealthForce, (the gig economy          
 of real estate; a resource and project management platform for CRE), which was exited in          
 early 2019. Prior to StealthForce, she was Deputy to the Head of Global Real Estate Asset         
 Management at Partners Group AG ($40 billion AUM), and earlier employee 13 at The Gerson          
 Lehrman Group, which was the world’s first institutional expert network. Ms. Sharma               
 earned her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard and Master of Business Administration at Wharton,          
 and spent over a decade in real estate development and investment.                                |

Director nominees Grant R. Allen, Brian Bonner, Anna Brunelle, Javier Saade and Poonam Sharma received founders’ equity prior to the initial public offering of Hennessy VII, in line with equity received by outside directors for similar entities. All of our directors, director nominees and officers are individual investors in our sponsor.

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