Kanishka Roy, Chairman and CEO

Mr. Roy is a technology and finance veteran, with over 25 years of experience as a technology investment banker, public company executive, and growth investor. Mr. Roy is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Plum Partners, LLC (“Plum Partners”) a late-stage investment company. He served as Chairman, President and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. I from March 2021 until September 2024, when it completed its business combination with Veea Inc. (“Veea”), and currently serves as a director of Veea. Since January 2024, Mr. Roy has served as Chairman, President and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. III — a special purpose acquisition company traded on Nasdaq, and is also the manager of Mercury Capital, LLC (“Mercury Capital”), its sponsor. From 2010 to 2019, Mr. Roy advised leading Software and Internet companies with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets transactions. Mr. Roy 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 large, industry-shaping M&A transactions. Over his career, Mr. Roy has participated in over $100 billion of M&A transactions. From 2019 to 2020, he was Global CFO at SmartNews, a multi-billion-dollar 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.

Steven Handwerker, Director and CFO

Mr. Handwerker has more than 15 years of experience investing in and covering the financial services and FinTech industries. He has previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of two Nasdaq listed special purpose acquisition companies. Since March 2024, Mr. Handwerker has been the Chief Financial Officer of Plum Acquisition Corp. III. Mr. Handwerker also serves as a Financial Consultant to Events.com, a software company building a comprehensive event management platform. Mr. Handwerker was the Chief Financial Officer of FinServ Acquisition Corp. II from 2021 until 2023. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Handwerker served as a consultant and Head of Business Development for FinServ Acquisition Corp., and was involved in all aspects of its business and operations. From 2013 to 2017, he was an Analyst at Citadel’s equity long/short hedge fund platform, covering companies within the financial services and FinTech sectors. Prior to Citadel, Mr. Handwerker was an Investment Banking Analyst in Barclays’ Financial Institutions Group from 2010 to 2013. He received his BBA from Emory University.

Allan Chou, Director

Mr. Chou serves as a Partner at Northgate Capital LLC’s Bay Area office, where he has held various other positions since 2006. Mr. Chou began his professional career at Cambridge Associates, LLC in 1999 as an analyst. During his tenure which ended in 2003, he was promoted to team leader and alternative assets associate. He returned to Cambridge Associates in 2005 as a specialist consultant after obtaining an MBA, focusing on venture capital and private equity non-marketable alternative asset programs. While in business school, Mr. Chou served as a summer associate at Northgate Capital LLC in 2004. Mr. Chou graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Pomona College, received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Anjai “AJ” Gandhi, Director

Mr. Gandhi has served as Chief Growth Officer at Marlin Equity Partners, a private equity fund that invests primarily in B2B software companies since 2020. During his more than 30-year career, he has helped implement growth acceleration strategies and go-to-market productivity improvements at more than 100 companies, primarily in the technology industry. Previously, Mr. Gandhi was a member of the go-to-market (“GTM”) leadership teams at RingCentral, from 2016 to 2019, and at Salesforce.com, from 2010 and 2012, where he guided acceleration in the enterprise segment, global expansion and the growth of multiple new product lines. He began his career in management consulting at Bain, McKinsey and The Alexander Group serving clients primarily on B2B marketing and sales strategy/effectiveness. Mr. Gandhi serves on multiple non-profit boards, including the HBS Club of Northern California. Mr. Gandhi earned a BS in Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Avanish Sahai, Director

Mr. Sahai is a former technology executive with experience in product, marketing, and ecosystems. From December 2019 until December 2021, Mr. Sahai served as vice president, ISV and apps partner ecosystem of Google. Previously, from December 2016 to December 2019, he served as global vice president, ISV and technology alliances at ServiceNow. From May 2015 to December 2016, Mr. Sahai was the senior vice president of channels and alliances at InsideSales.com. From April 2014 to May 2015, he was the senior vice president and chief product officer at Demandbase. Prior to Demandbase, Mr. Sahai held leadership positions at Salesforce.com, Oracle, and McKinsey & Company, as well as various early-to-mid stage startups in Silicon Valley. Mr. Sahai previously served on the boards of technology companies, including HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) from April 2018 to September 2023, and currently serves on the boards of Birdie.ai (venture backed), and Scribe (PE-backed, acquired by TIBCO), as well as on the boards of nonprofit organizations, including Commonwealth Club World Affairs, Brazil at Silicon Valley and BayBrazil. Mr. Sahai holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, an MSCE from Boston University, and a BSEE from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Kanishka Roy, Chairman and CEO

Mr. Roy is a technology and finance veteran, with over 25 years of experience as a technology investment banker, public company executive, and growth investor. Mr. Roy is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Plum Partners, LLC (“Plum Partners”) a late-stage investment company. He served as Chairman, President and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. I from March 2021 until September 2024, when it completed its business combination with Veea Inc. (“Veea”), and currently serves as a director of Veea. Since January 2024, Mr. Roy has served as Chairman, President and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. III — a special purpose acquisition company traded on Nasdaq, and is also the manager of Mercury Capital, LLC (“Mercury Capital”), its sponsor. From 2010 to 2019, Mr. Roy advised leading Software and Internet companies with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets transactions. Mr. Roy 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 large, industry-shaping M&A transactions. Over his career, Mr. Roy has participated in over $100 billion of M&A transactions. From 2019 to 2020, he was Global CFO at SmartNews, a multi-billion-dollar 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.

Hume Kyle, Director

Mr. Kyle is a CPA, CA, CFA, with over 40 years of private sector and public accounting experience, including over 25 years working with mining, energy and other natural resources companies in senior management and board roles. Mr. Kyle served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dundee Precious Metals Inc., a multi-national gold mining company, from 2011 until his retirement on December 31, 2022. Prior to that Mr. Kyle was Vice President, Treasurer and Controller of TransAlta Corporation, a multi-national power generation and wholesale marketing company, from 2009 to 2011, and Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P., a pipeline, natural gas liquids processing, and power company, from 2003 to 2009. Mr. Kyle also held increasingly senior finance and accounting roles at Nexfor Inc., Noranda Inc., Deloitte & Touche, and Price Waterhouse & Co. Additionally, Mr. Kyle currently serves on the board of Novagold Resources Inc. (2023 to present) and previously served on the boards of Stornoway Diamond Corporation (2014 to 2019), Alliance Pipeline (2004 to 2009), Aux Sable (2004 to 2009), and the Canadian Association of Income Funds (2005 to 2009), serving on several committees, including the Audit Committee, as Chair. Mr. Kyle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Western Ontario, a Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from McGill University, a CA designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, a CFA designation from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, and a ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Alan Black, Director

Mr. Black founded Surfspray Capital, LLC in 2017 through which he has advised over a dozen companies including Looker Data Sciences where he served on the Board and was Chair of the Audit Committee (acquired by Google in 2019); Bill.com Holdings (2019 IPO), HashiCorp (2021 IPO), and private software companies including Intercom, Komodo Health, Mattermost, Netlify, Nozomi Networks, and others. He brings more than 35 years of experience as an executive leading public and private software enterprises, including IPO experience as CFO at Zendesk (2014 IPO) and Openwave Systems (1999 IPO). In between those companies, Mr. Black was President and CEO of Intelliden (acquired by IBM in 2010). Mr. Black currently sits on the boards of Nextiva, Inc., Matillion Limited, and Plum Acquisition Corp. I, a special purpose acquisition company traded on Nasdaq. He holds a Bachelors of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and serves as the co-Chair of McGill’s Board of Advisors for the Western United States. Mr. Black is now retired from active membership in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (Canada) and Society of Certified Public Accountants (California), in which professional organizations he was a licensed member for over two decades.

David Sable, Director

Mr. Sable is a Founding Partner of DoAble LLC, a marketing consultancy. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (NYSE: ETD) since November 2021 and of American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (NYSE: AEO) since October 2016. He served as a Senior Advisor to WPP plc. (NYSE: WPP) from January 2019 until March 2021. Previously he was Chairman of VMLY&R, a member of WPP plc., in 2019. Prior to this role, he had served as the Global Chief Executive Officer of Young and Rubicam LLC, until its subsequent merger with VMLY&R. Mr. Sable also served at Wunderman, Inc., a leading customer relationship manager and digital unit of WPP plc as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, from August 2000 to February 2011. Mr. Sable was previously a Founding Partner and Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Genesis Direct, Inc. from June 1996 to September 2000. Mr. Sable serves on the U.S. Fund for United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF’s) National Board, is a past Chair of the Ad Council’s board of directors, is an executive board member of the United Negro College Fund, and sits on the International Board of the Special Olympics. Mr. Sable attended New York University and Hunter College.

Kanishka Roy, Chairman

Ursula Burns

Mike Dinsdale

Our Senior Advisory Team is comprised of individuals with an array of diverse and relevant experience, including unicorn founders, public company CEOs, and industry leaders in technology. These individuals serve in ad-hoc roles and add value to Plum through the strength of their connectivity with relevant company executives and boards.

Overall, members of our extended team are current CEOs, Board Members, Advisors, or Investors at companies such as Datto, Gusto, Grammarly, ThoughtSpot, Teneo, Databricks, Fastly, Rubrik, Even, Waystar, Builder.ai, Wyze, MapBox, Side, GitLab, HashiCorp, Folloze, ShotSpotter, ThredUp, Core Scientific, Lucid, Pendo, Outreach, Digital Ocean, Illumio, Notion, Punchh, LiveRamp, SmartNews, True, DeepInstinct, Crunchbase, Nutanix, SQream, Auth0, Calm, Zayo, Smartsheet, Cybereason, NerdWallet, Uber, Softcat, ZeroFox, HIS, Advanced Computer Software, etc.

Our team members are also current Partners, Advisors, or LPs at firms such as Bessemer, Durable, IVP, DST, Wing Ventures, TPG, Akkadian, Warburg Pincus, Trinity Ventures, Cross Creek, Cadian, HWVP, Twenty Acer, Gagarin, Raine, Hutt Capital, Rothschild, Elderstreet, NEA, Highland, Generation, Soma Capital, Hg Capital, General Catalyst, EQT, Menlo Ventures, Accel, Dockyard, Lightspeed, etc.