TKB Critical Technologies 1 announced effective June 28, 2023, the following individuals were appointed as officers of the Company: Joseph Tonnos as Chief Investment Officer, age is 35; Ryan Hultstrand as Co-Chief Operating Officer, age is 35 and Matthew Day as Co-Chief Operating Officer, age is 50. Joseph Tonnos, who serves as Chief Investment Officer, has been a Managing Director at Roth Capital Partners since April of 2023. Mr. Tonnos has over 13 years of experience investing in and advising acquisition candidates, completing due diligence, financial modeling and deal structuring.

From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Tonnos served as a Principal and Associate Portfolio Manager at Meteora Capital and was the Chief Financial Officer of GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Meteora which completed a business combination with Bitcoin Depot Inc. During 2021, Mr. Tonnos also served as an Associate Portfolio Manager at Glazer Capital. From 2017 until 2021, Mr. Tonnos worked at Mistral Equity Partners, a consumer & retail focused investment group as a Principal. From 2017 until 2022, Mr. Tonnos served as the Senior Vice President of Haymaker I, II, and III, three special purpose acquisition companies affiliated with Mistral Equity Partners.

Haymaker I, II and III all successfully completed business combinations with OneSpaWorld Ltd., ARKO Holdings Ltd. and Biote Corp. respectively. His experience spans evaluating, executing, structuring and monitoring public, private and venture capital investments.

He has advised companies and shareholders on capital raising, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and capital structure alternatives. Mr. Tonnos is also the Co-Founder of Ketch Ventures. In the last five years he served or continues to serve on the several boards, including Worldwise Inc., and Aether Diamonds among others.

Mr. Tonnos has also been a board observer of The Lovesac Company Inc. from 2017 until 2021 and serves on the Board of Advisors at Niagara University. Prior to Mistral, Mr. Tonnos served as an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Lazard and as a foreign exchange trader at CIBC Capital Markets. Mr. Tonnos received his B.S. and M.B.A. from Niagara University, graduating magna cum laude. Ryan Hultstrand joined Craig-Hallum in 2013, and has been a Managing Director in the Investment Banking department since January 2022.

Mr. Hultstrand was previously a Vice President of Craig-Hallum from January 2018 until January 2022. Mr. Hultstrand has over 10 years of experience in investment banking and consulting in the healthcare, consumer, industrial and technology sectors, with a focus on SPACs. Mr. Hultstrand is the Co-Chief Operating Officer of Roth CH Acquisition V Co.

Mr. Hultstrand has a B.A. from Carleton College. Matthew Day is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking department at Roth with a focus on Business Services and Technology. Prior to joining Roth in 2019, Mr. Day spent 12 years as a senior equity analyst at Sagard Capital Partners.

At Sagard, Mr. Day focused primarily on businesses in the business services, industrial and consumer sectors. Prior to this role, he was a senior equity analyst and private equity associate at Xylem Investments from 2002 to 2006, where he served on boards of three private forestry companies in New Zealand, Chile and Venezuela. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Day was an investment banking associate at Lehman Brothers in the global technology group.

He also worked as an associate and analyst at Barclays Capital from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on the telecom, media and transportation industries. Mr. Day is the Co-Chief Operating Officer of Roth CH Acquisition V Co and was previously the Co-Chief Operating Officer of Roth CH IV Acquisition Co. Mr. Day has a B.S. in Finance from Boston College and an MBA from the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Effective June 28, 2023, Byron Roth and John Lipman were appointed as directors of the Company.