On October 1, 2022, the Board of Directors of Anzu Special Acquisition Corp. I (the Company) increased the size of the Board from three directors to five directors and appointed Daniel J. Hirsch and Diane L. Dewbrey as members of the Board, effective immediately, to fill the vacancies created by the increase of the size of the Board. The Board also determined that Ms. Dewbrey is an independent director as defined in the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, and appointed Ms. Dewbrey as a member of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a special committee of the Board, and as chair of the Compensation Committee.

In addition, on October 1, 2022, the Board appointed Mr. Hirsh as the Corporate Secretary of the Company. Mr. Hirsch, age 48, was a principal of Cascade Acquisition Holdings, LLC, the sponsor of a special purpose acquisition company, Cascade Acquisition Corp., formed in November 2020, and served as its chief operating officer and chief financial officer through May 2022. Mr. Hirsch served as a consultant to Trinity Real Estate Investments, LLC from January 2019 through November 2019 in connection with Trinity's sponsorship of a special purpose acquisition company, Trinity Merger Corp, which completed its initial business combination in November 2019 with Broadmark Realty Capital (“Broadmark”).

From November 2019 through present, Mr. Hirsch has served on the board of Broadmark and is currently the chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Finance Committee. In addition, Mr. Hirsch has served on the board of The Macerich Company since 2018 and is currently a member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee. In addition, Mr. Hirsch served as a consultant to Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. (“Farallon”), an investment firm that manages capital on behalf of institutions and individuals, for which he has served as a board designee with respect to Farallon's investment in Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V. (NASDAQ: PLYA), from January 2017 to March 2020.

During his tenure as a director at Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V., Mr. Hirsch served as the chair of the Compensation Committee, and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Capital Allocation Committee. Previously, from November 2003 to December 2016, Mr. Hirsch held several senior positions at Farallon, including Managing Member of the Real Estate Group from 2009 to December 2016, Managing Director from 2007 to 2008 and Legal Counsel from 2003 to 2006. Prior to joining Farallon, Mr. Hirsch worked as an associate in the San Francisco office of the law firm Covington & Burling LLP, from 2001 to 2003.

Mr. Hirsch graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought from Amherst College. Since November 2018, Ms. Dewbrey, age 58, has served as an independent director of MBIA Inc., a NYSE-listed holding company whose subsidiaries provide financial guarantee insurance and other specialized financial services. Ms. Dewbrey serves on MBIA's Audit Committee, Compensation and Governance Committee, and Finance and Risk Committee.

Since July 2022, Ms. Dewbrey has been a director of Chandler Asset Management (ESOP) and a member of its Compensation Committee. Additionally, Ms. Dewbrey served on Barrett Business Services Inc. from November 2019 to June 2022 and was Chair of the Nominating/Governance Committee, and from 2020 to 2021 she was a Board Advisor to Organic Valley Cooperative, largest organic dairy US cooperative, where she participated in all the director committees. For five years, until its merger with Consolidated Communications in 2014, Ms. Dewbrey served as an independent director and then chair (2013-14) of the board of Enventis Inc. Prior to serving as a director at Enventis, she held various senior positions at Fifth Third Bancorp, where over an eighteen-year period she became Senior Vice President & Director of Central Operations and a member of the Executive Management Team.

Then, she served as CEO of Foundation Bank from 2006 to 2015, and was Director of the Foundation Bancorp and Foundation Bank Board. Ms. Dewbrey is currently a director of the YMCA of The USA where she serves as Chair of the Investment Committee. Ms. Dewbrey earned her BS degree in Mathematics from Xavier University.