Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
On January 28, 2022, the board of directors (the "Board") of Plum Acquisition
Corp. I (the "Company") appointed Kanishka Roy and Mike Dinsdale as Co-Chief
Executive Officers. Mr. Roy has served as President and as a member of the Board
since the inception of the Company. Mr. Dinsdale has served as Chief Financial
Officer and as a member of the Board since the inception of the Company.
Mr. Dinsdale and Mr. Roy will each retain their existing titles.
Kanishka B. Roy, 46, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer is a technology
and finance veteran, with over 20 years of experience as a technology investment
banker, public company executive, and growth investor. Mr. Roy is President of
Plum Acquisition Corp. I. From 2014 to 2019, he helped leading Software and
Internet companies with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets
transactions. Mr. Roy also served as the Global Head of Tech M&A Origination for
Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for initiating large,
industry-transforming mergers, helping clients take a long-term view of the
competitive landscape and implementing winning M&A playbooks to maximize
shareholder value. Over his career, Mr. Roy has participated in over$100 billion
of M&A transactions. Most recently, from 2019 to 2020, he was Global CFO at
SmartNews, a multi-billion-dollar private AI company with over 20 million
monthly average users, and led the strategic finance and growth of a rapidly
growing company across multiple geographies. Mr. Roy started his career as a
software engineer at two software startups, both of which were acquired by
larger public companies, and also worked in executive strategy roles at IBM.
Mr. Roy holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and
an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Mike Dinsdale, 49, Chief Financial Officer and Co-Chief Executive Officer has
embodied the "modern unicorn" CFO for over 20 years, with strategic expertise in
building high-growth international companies that consistently exceed growth
targets. Mr. Dinsdale has successfully secured over $1 billion in financing and
been part of great teams generating more than $100 billion in value.
Mr. Dinsdale is the CFO, COO and a director of Plum I. Prior to his role at Plum
I, Mr. Dinsdale was the CFO for Gusto from 2017 to 2020 and prior to that was
CFO at two generational, market leading software companies: DoorDash, from 2016
to 2017, and DocuSign, where he also served as Chief Growth Officer, from 2010
to 2016. In addition to his role at Plum II, Mr. Dinsdale serves as a Venture
Partner at Akkadian Ventures, a late-stage venture fund, and as a board member
for private software companies. Mr. Dinsdale earned a BS in engineering from the
University of Western Ontario and an MBA from McMaster University. Mr. Dinsdale
holds the CFA designation and competed with the Canadian National Sailing Team
in the 1996 Olympic trials. He also serves on the Board of Directors for
WildAid.
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