Wow, here is the CEOs bio. Guy co owns NHL franchise!
Jonathan J. Ledecky, 64 years old,has been a co-owner of the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders franchise since October 2014. He also serves as an Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of the NHL and as President of NY Hockey Holdings LLC. Mr. Ledecky has also served as chairman of Ironbound Partners Fund, LLC, a private investment management fund, since March 1999. He served as President and Chief Financial Officer and as a director of Newtown Lane Marketing, Incorporated from October 2015 until it consummated its merger with Cyxtera Cybersecurity, Inc. (d/b/a AppGate), a cybersecurity company, in October 2021. He has continued to serve as a director of the company (now Appgate Inc.) since such date. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer and as a director of Northern Star Acquisition Corp. from September 2020 until it consummated an initial business combination with Barkbox, Inc., an omnichannel brand serving dogs across the four key categories of play, food, health and home, in June 2021 (NYSE: BARK). He has continued to serve as a director of the company (now Bark, Inc.) since such date. Since November 2020, he has served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of each of Northern Star Investment Corp. II (NYSE: NSTB), Northern Star Investment Corp. III (NYSE: NSTC) and Northern Star Investment Corp. IV (NSTD). Since October 2020, he has also served as Chairman of the Board of Pivotal Investment Corporation III (NYSE: PICC). Each of the foregoing companies is a blank check company that is currently searching for an initial business combination. From July 2019 to December 2020, he was also the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pivotal Investment Corporation II (NYSE: PIC), a blank check company that consummated an initial business combination with XL Fleet, a provider of fleet electrification solutions for commercial vehicles in North America. From August 2018 to December 2019, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pivotal Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PVT), a blank check company that consummated an initial business combination with KLDiscovery Inc., a leading global provider of eDiscovery, information governance and data recovery solutions to corporations, law firms, insurance companies and individuals, in December 2019. Mr. Ledecky continued to serve as a member of the board of KLDiscovery from its merger until June 2021. Mr. Ledecky previously founded U.S. Office Products in October 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until November 1997 and as its Chairman until its sale in June 1998. U.S. Office Products was one of the fastest start-up entrants in the history of the Fortune 500 with sales in excess of $3 billion within its first three years of operation. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Ledecky was vice chairman of Lincoln Holdings, owners of the Washington sports franchises in the NBA, NHL and WNBA. He has served as a trustee of George Washington University and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as a commissioner on the National Commission on Entrepreneurship. In 2004, Mr. Ledecky was elected the Chief Marshal of the 2004 Harvard University Commencement, an honor bestowed by his alumni peers for a 25th reunion graduate deemed to have made exceptional contributions to Harvard and the greater society while achieving outstanding professional success. Mr. Ledecky received a B.A. (cum laude) from Harvard University in 1979 and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1983. We believe Mr. Ledecky’s qualifications to serve on the Board include his extensive executive leadership and business and entrepreneurial experience, including experience with public shell companies looking to make acquisitions.
