ClimateRock Appoints Dariusz Sliwinski to the Board of Directors

LONDON, May 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ClimateRock (NASDAQ: CLRC) (“ClimateRock” or the “Company”), a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, announced today the appointment of Dariusz Sliwinski as an independent member to its Board of Directors, effective May 20, 2024. Concurrently, Mr. Sliwinski was appointed as a member and Chairman of the Audit Committee and to serve on the Company’s Special Committee, the Compensation Committee, and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Mr. Sliwinski has been serving as the Director of Institutional Product Development at Burj Financial Consultants since 2018, a director at Morningside Financial Ltd, a business consulting firm, since May 2022, and an independent director and advisor at Palmela Capital Limited, an investment fund, since February 2024. From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Sliwinski served as an advisor at the Untitled Ventures, a venture capital fund in the United Kingdom, providing oversight of fund and portfolio management including capital raising efforts and establishment of strategic partnerships. From 2017 to 2018, Mr. Sliwinski served as Chief Investment Officer and Head of Asset Management at Ubhar Capital, a private investment bank, leading the bank’s investment management practice. Mr. Sliwinski’s prior leadership positions in international hedge funds and alternative asset management firms provide a solid foundation of financial management decision making and complex due diligence expertise. Mr. Sliwinski holds a master’s degree in business administration from SDA Bocconi, Milan, a postgraduate European studies degree from University of Lodz and a master’s degree in electronic engineering from Lodz University of Technology.

Per Regnarsson, Chief Executive Officer of ClimateRock, commented, “We are pleased to welcome Dariusz to our Board as an Independent Director and as a member of our Audit, Compensation, Nominating, Corporate Governance and Special Committees. Dariusz’s distinguished career in financial management spans a variety of global investment and asset management funds, encompasses deep familiarity and oversight of intricate global market financing structures, and illustrates a track record of facilitating broad public and private strategic partnerships providing a robust history of assets that will support the long-term strategic objectives of the combined company. We are fortunate to have Dariusz join our board during this transformational period. We are dedicated to the mission of developing our business into a lead innovator by forming an integrated value chain that provides a renewable energy solution.”