Merged into WeWork, ticker now WE
BOWX

Completed

WeWork

BowX Acquisition Corp.

Underwriter: UBS Securities
Raised
$350M
CIK
1813756
SPAC Ticker
BOWX
Merger
WeWork
Merged Ticker
WE
Focus
Technology, Media, Telecommunications, TMT
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Vivek Ranadivé has served as our Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer since our inception. Mr. Ranadivé has been the Founder and Managing Director of Bow Capital Management LLC and its affiliated funds since 2016 and Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Governor of the Sacramento Kings since 2013. He founded his first company, Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. (“Teknekron”), in 1986 to develop and apply software to financial trading floors. After selling Teknekron to Reuters PLC in 1994, he then went on to found and spin-out TIBCO as a separate company in 1997. TIBCO completed its initial public offering in 1999 and was subsequently sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2014 for $4.3 billion. As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ranadive built TIBCO into a leading provider of middleware software that became the central data nervous system for many of the world’s largest companies and government agencies. Mr. Ranadivé became involved in NBA basketball first as Vice Chairman of the Golden State Warriors. Mr. Ranadivé formerly served on the boards of Nielsen, a global media company, and WebEx, a telecommunications company, prior to its sale to Cisco. Mr. Ranadivé holds a B.S. and M.A. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. We believe Mr. Ranadivé is well-qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his business experience, contacts and relationships.

Murray Rode has served as our Co-Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Rode has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He has been a senior advisor and consultant to Bow Capital Management, LLC since December 2019. Mr. Rode joined the predecessor entity to TIBCO in 1995. In 1997, he was instrumental in the creation of TIBCO, as well as its subsequent initial public offering in 1999 and its sale to Vista Equity Partners in 2014. At that time, Mr. Rode became TIBCO’s Chief Executive Officer and a director until April 2019, when he became Vice Chairman through December 2019. Earlier in his tenure at TIBCO, Mr. Rode held a range of progressively responsible positions, including Executive Vice President, Strategic Operations, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Through his various roles at TIBCO, he also oversaw the expansion of its business through approximately 30 acquisitions, spanning the areas of data analytics, application integration, business process management, streaming data, API management and data management platforms. In addition, Mr. Rode served as a director of the publicly traded company, CallidusCloud, a leading incentive compensation management, sales performance, and connected lead-to-cash solutions provider from 2014 until its sale to SAP in 2018 (it is now part of SAP Sales Cloud). Mr. Rode was a management consultant before joining TIBCO and holds a B.A. degree from the University of Alberta, Canada. We believe Mr. Rode is well-qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his business experience, contacts and relationships.

Eric C.W. Dunn has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2020. Since April 2016, Mr. Dunn has served as Chief Executive Officer of Quicken Inc., a producer of personal finance software in the United States. Mr. Dunn joined Intuit Inc., Quicken’s previous owner, in 1986, when Quicken was the only Intuit software product. He spent a total of 20 years at Intuit over his career, including as its Chief Financial Officer through its 1993 initial public offering and merger with ChipSoft (TurboTax), as a programmer who worked on almost all of the early versions of Quicken, as the first general manager of the Quicken business, as Intuit’s first Chief Technology Officer and finally as the leader of Intuit’s payments business. Mr. Dunn was previously a General Partner at Cardinal Venture Capital, an investment firm. He was a former director of TIBCO among other companies. Mr. Dunn holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a MBA From Harvard Business School. We believe Mr. Dunn is well-qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his business experience, contacts and relationships.

Lori Wright has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2020. Since October 2019, Ms. Wright has served as the Vice President & General Manager of Gaming Business Development at Microsoft. In this role, she leads global partnerships for the Xbox organization, working across enterprise and consumer organizations to deliver growth opportunities for cloud and console gaming. Prior to this, from April 2017 to October 2019, Ms. Wright served as General Manager for Office 365 collaboration applications, including Microsoft Teams and Outlook, where she oversaw global marketing for these products. Ms. Wright developed her business expertise through previous executive roles including Chief Marketing Officer at BlueJeans Network from April 2016 to April 2017 and Chief Marketing Officer at TIBCO from October 2013 to June 2015. Before joining TIBCO, she served as Vice President at Symantec overseeing worldwide e-commerce sales and strategy for Norton software from 2011 to 2013. Ms. Wright held executive positions within Symantec’s Cloud and Enterprise divisions over her tenure, which began with VERITAS Software. Ms. Wright started her career at Walt Disney World in marketing and sales. She has served as a startup advisor to companies including Color Genomics and ServiceMax, as well as venture firms including Bow Capital. Ms. Wright holds a B.A. in Business, with a major in Finance, from the University of Central Florida. We believe Ms. Wright is well-qualified to serve on our board of directors due to her business experience, contacts and relationships.

Vijay Advani has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2020. Since January 2020, Mr. Advani has served as Executive Chairman of Nuveen, the asset manager of TIAA-CREF. He is responsible for Nuveen’s overall strategy and growth with a focus on three key initiatives of the firm: impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, the further development of Nuveen Labs and growing Nuveen’s business and investment capabilities outside of the U.S. Mr. Advani was previously Chief Executive Officer of Nuveen from 2017 until becoming Executive Chairman and had day-to-day responsibility for the firm. Mr. Advani was previously Co-President of Franklin Templeton Investments, where in a career of more than 20 years from 1995 to 2016, he was responsible for long-term strategic initiatives and the firm’s investment management, trading and global retail and institutional channels. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Mr. Advani was at the World Bank from 1984 to 1995 advising governments on developing their financial markets and arranging equity, quasi-equity and debt financing. Mr. Advani is a member of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute (ICI). He also serves on the boards of Jumpstart and the U.S.—India Business Council (USIBC), FCLTGlobal and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). He is also an advisory board member for The Hive Incubator in Palo Alto, charter member of TiE Silicon Valley and past board member of the U.S.—India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Advani is a committee member of the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative, member of the India Advisory Committee and Investment Committee at the Santa Clara University (SCU) and former board member of Lok Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We believe Mr. Advani is well-qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his business experience, contacts and relationships.