Company: SAC-UN
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0002077096-25-000043
Chunk: 200

Company: Safeguard Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: DRS
Chunk 200
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 years at Bain & Company (“Bain”) including as a member of the board of directors of the parent company. Mr. Gottfredson has founded and served as the head of numerous practices at Bain, leading them to become large, significant businesses within the firm. This includes the Global Performance Improvement practice, Complexity Management practice and the Americas Automotive and Mobility practice. In addition, he was the founder of the Dallas Office and the Energy practice at Bain. Over his four decades at Bain, Mr. Gottfredson has advised Chief Executives and boards across a wide range of industries, including companies in our sectors of focus as well as companies in the industrial and consumer industries. Outside of his work at Bain, Mr. Gottfredson was also an active board member for several companies including Vista Outdoors (formerly NYSE: VSTO), TBM Consulting, and Emerge Energy Services. Mr. Gottfredson is also the co -authorof “The Breakthrough Imperative” and has written extensively for publications including the Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal amongst other notable business publications. In addition, Mr. Gottfredson serves as a Managing Member of our sponsor. Mr. Gottfredson is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive operational and transactional experience in a broad range of industries. We believe our management team and board of directors is well positioned to take advantage of the growing set of investment opportunities focused on the aerospace & defense, government services & national security and space sectors and that our contacts and relationships will allow us to generate an attractive transaction for our shareholders. With respect to the above, past experience or performance of our management team is not a guarantee of eith er (i) success with respect to a business combination that may be consummated or (ii) the ability to successfully identify and execute a transaction. You should not rely on the historical record of management as indicative of future performance. See “ Risk Factors — General Risk Factors — Past experience or performance by our management team

134 or their affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in us.” For a list of our executive officers and directors and entities for which a conflict of interest may or does exist between such officers and directors, on the one hand, and us, on the other hand, please refer to “ Management — Conflicts of Interest.” Certain of our founders, officers and directors presently have, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary and contractual duties to other entities. As a result,