Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. V Announces the Appointment of Independent Directors and the Formation of a Strategic Advisory Council - Seite 2

Barbara Byrne. Barbara Byrne currently sits on the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education and the board of directors of ViacomCBS Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAC), and she is a lifetime member of The Council on Foreign Relations. She is former Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays PLC and at Lehman Brothers—the first woman to be named Vice Chairman at either firm—and she held senior leadership positions in both the Energy and Technology Investment Banking Groups. American Banker named Ms. Byrne in the top five of the “25 Most Powerful Women in Finance” for eight consecutive years through 2017, and she received American Banker’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Finance in October 2018.

Dr. Kurt Lauk. Dr. Kurt Lauk currently serves as an independent director for Magna International (NYSE: MGA), a leading developer and manufacturer of automotive technology. He was formerly a member of the board of management and Head of World Wide Commercial Vehicles Division of Daimler Chrysler, as well as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (with responsibility for finance, controlling and marketing) of Audi AG. Dr. Lauk also formerly served as an independent director of Solera, a software company for the automotive industry.

Tanguy Serra. Tanguy Serra currently serves as President and Chief Investment Officer of Loanpal, leading the innovation group, leveraging new technology to identify new business opportunities and market growth potential, and optimizing advancements in the consumer lending platform. Previously, he served as President of SolarCity and co-founded Vivint Solar, the second largest residential solar provider. Before then, he spent three years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, and eight years as Vice President in the private equity group at TPG.

Strategic Advisory Council

In addition to its board of directors, the Company has formed a strategic advisory council consisting of the following six highly-qualified individuals.

Brad Buss: Independent Director at QuantumScape (NYSE: QS), Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL), AECOM (NYSE: ACM), and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP); former Independent Director of Tesla; former CFO of SolarCity and Cypress Semiconductor. In November 2020, QuantumScape was taken public via a merger with a SPAC, further adding to the senior management team’s SPAC credentials.