Our Leadership Team
Robert M. Bennett
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has over 30 years of private equity experience in technology, media and manufacturing businesses. Mr. Bennett has broad experience in building proprietary deal sourcing, raising financing and closing acquisition transactions and then growing those businesses and selling them to strategic acquirers. Since 1997, Mr. Bennett has served as Chief Executive Officer of the First Lexington organization, a private equity sponsor group that has led many transactions. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Bennett was Chief Executive Officer of ViewMarket, Inc., a company he co-founded that acquired CultureMap, a digital media company. ViewMarket was subsequently sold to Gow Media, LLC in 2017. Since 2017, Mr. Bennett has also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jon D. Williams Cotillions, Inc., a national social education provider. From 1997 to 2019, Mr. Bennett was Chief Executive Officer of Long-Lok Fasteners Corporation, a next generation proprietary aerospace fasteners company in which he purchased two additional “bulk up” businesses, Bernic Screw Corp and A&W Screw Corp. The company was sold to Novaria Group, LLC in December 2019. Since 2003, Mr. Bennett has also served as Vice Chairman of Modulant Solutions, an IT services and software company that he co-founded and that later acquired Product Data Integration Technologies, Inc. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Bennett was Chairman of Springbow Solutions, Inc., a company he co-founded that acquired IT service companies and provided next generation IT, portal and web services. The company was sold to Soflink, Inc. in 2005. In the 1990s, Mr. Bennett acquired and sold various media and manufacturing businesses. In 2021 and 2022 Mr. Bennett was Chairman and CEO of LightJump Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. Mr. Bennett was an independent director of Moolec Sciences Ltd, the merger partner, in 2023.
William W. Bunker
Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, co-founded the largest dating site of the 1990s, which became Match.com and was ultimately sold for $47.5 million to Ticketmaster in 1999. He served as President of the rebranded site Match.com during the transition. After Match.com, he became a co-founder of Critical Watch, an enterprise security company that was sold to Alert Logic in 2015. Mr. Bunker co-founded two seed stage VC funds, Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate in 2013 which he managed actively until 2016, and GrowthX which Mr. Bunker has operated since 2016. He has invested in an extensive number of startups. In 2021 and 2022 Mr. Bunker was Vice Chairman and CFO of LightJump Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.
Robert Hochberg
Robert Hochberg will serve as a member of our board of directors commencing on the effective date of this prospectus. Mr. Hochberg is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Numeric Computer Systems, Inc. (“Numeric”). Mr. Hochberg has served at Numeric as President since June 1984 and as Chief Executive Officer since November 1994. Numeric is a global software company with offices in New York, San Juan, Auckland, Jakarta and Sydney. Mr. Hochberg has also served as a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. IV since December 2021. Mr. Hochberg previously served as a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. from January 2020 until the consummation of its business combination with GCM Grosvenor in November 2020, a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II from August 2020 until consummation of its business combination with View in March 2021, a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III from November 2020 until consummation of its business combination with AEye in August 2021 and a director of Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. since December 2024. Mr. Hochberg is a graduate of Vassar College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Charlotte S. Blechman
Charlotte S. Blechman will serve as a member of our board of directors commencing on the effective date of this prospectus. Ms. Blechman has extensive executive and management experience in marketing, public relations, visual merchandising, branding, digital and social marketing, advertising and communications. Ms. Blechman served as Chief Marketing Officer of Tom Ford Retail LLC from January 2017 through June 1, 2023, where she oversaw various departments. She was responsible for all global marketing, communications, advertising, public relations, visual display, customer relationship management, social media, digital marketing and events. Ms. Blechman served as a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II from November 2020 until consummation of its business combination with View in March 2021. Ms. Blechman has also served as a director of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. IV since December 2020 and a director of Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. since December 2024. From 2011 to 2017, Ms. Blechman served as Executive Vice-President of Marketing and Communication at Barneys New York. Prior to that, Ms. Blechman served as Gucci America’s Vice President of Public Relations and Special Events, also overseeing Worldwide Celebrity Relations. She also served as Vice President of Public Relations for Yves Saint Laurent.
Allen C. Dickason
Allen C. Dickason will serve as a member of our board of directors commencing on the effective date of this prospectus. He has extensive executive level experience in information technology, logistics, supply chain, strategy and project management, primarily in consumer product-related industries. His business career includes significant technology roles at Frito-Lay and Frito-Lay International where, between 1982 and 1998, he served as Chief Information Officer for both the domestic and international divisions as well as co-leading the redesign of the Frito-Lay Go to Market strategy. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Dickason served as Chief Information Officer for Suiza Foods, then Dean Foods, the leading dairy manufacturer in the US. Other roles include the Chief Technology Officer at Kinko’s from 2002 to 2004 as well as the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Direct Store Delivery Sales and Distribution for Brach’s Confections from 2004 to 2009. Mr. Dickason began his career at Procter and Gamble, where between from 1970 to 1982 he served as an engineer and later doing facilities management and international corporate office installations. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA with a finance concentration for the University of Cincinnati.