Completed
Grindr
First | 2021-01-14 | $11.00 | |
Merger | 2023-01-03 | $4.98 | 55% |
Merger +6mo | 2023-07-03 | $5.75 | 48% |
Merger +1yr | 2024-01-02 | $8.56 | 22% |
Recent | 2024-06-04 | $9.34 | 15% |
Tiga Acquisition Corp.
- Registration2020-11-04 Filed S1
- IPO2020-11-25 IPO, search begins
- Definitive Agreement2022-05-09 Agreement for merger
- Completed2022-12-31 Merger Completed
- Raised
- $200M
- CIK
- 1820144
- SPAC Ticker
- TINVU
- Merger
- Grindr
- Merged Ticker
- GRND
- Focus
- Opportunity Based on Coronavirus Impact
SPAC Team
Leadership
G. Raymond Zage, III is a founder and has served as the Chairman and CEO of the Company since July 2020 and as the CEO of Tiga Investments Pte. Ltd. since November 2017. Prior to August 2018, Mr. Zage was managing director and CEO of Farallon Capital Asia (S) Pte Ltd, which invests capital on behalf of Farallon Capital Management LLC, where he was a partner. Mr. Zage joined Farallon Capital Management LLC in March 2000 and in 2002 set up and ran Farallon Capital Asia (S) Pte Ltd (also previously known as Noonday Asset Management). Prior to joining Farallon, Mr. Zage was a vice president at Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pte Ltd in the Investment Banking Division having also worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and Los Angeles. Mr. Zage continues to serve as a part-time senior advisor at Farallon and he is also a member of the Board of Directors of Toshiba Corporation and Whitehaven Coal Limited and he is a member of the Board of Commissioners of PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk and PT Aplikasia Karya Anak Bangsa, the holding company for GoJek. Mr. Zage received his bachelor of science degree in finance and accounting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1992. Mr. Zage’s qualifications to serve on our board include nearly three decades of investment experience in public and private debt, public and private equity and real estate across a wide variety of industries and geographies, his strategic vision and his experience as a board member of public and private companies in a wide variety of industries. Mr. Zage provides high-value added services to our board of directors and has sufficient time to focus on the Company.
Ashish Gupta is a founder and has served as a director of the Company since July 2020 and as Managing Director of Tiga Investments Pte. Ltd. since August 2019. Prior to July 2019, Mr. Gupta was partner and portfolio manager at Farallon Capital Asia. Mr. Gupta joined Farallon Capital Asia in February 2007. Prior to joining Farallon, Mr. Gupta worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co., Kotak Investment Banking and ICICI Securities. Mr. Gupta also serves on the boards of a number of private companies. Mr. Gupta received his bachelor of commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, India in 1996 and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2002. Mr. Gupta’s qualifications to serve on our board include his extensive experience with sourcing, evaluating and monitoring investments, his wide range of deal experience and track record of managing investments throughout their entire life cycle. Mr. Gupta provides high-value added services to our board of directors and has sufficient time to focus on the Company.
David Ryan will serve as a director of the Company upon the completion of this offering. Mr. Ryan spent 22 years working at Goldman Sachs across a variety of roles, both in the United States and in Asia. Mr. Ryan ultimately served as president of Goldman Sachs Asia (ex Japan) from 2010 to 2013, chairing Goldman Sachs’ Asia management committee and sitting on the firm’s management committee. Although Mr. Ryan has retired from Goldman Sachs and no longer holds any management or employment position at Goldman Sachs, as a retired member of the management committee he retains the honorary title of senior director of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Ryan is also a corporate advisor to Temasek Holdings with respect to certain of its investments. Mr. Ryan received his bachelor of arts degree in economics and political science from Yale University in 1992. Mr. Ryan is a non-executive director of ADT Security Services, a member of the board and investment committee of Mapletree Investments and Chairman of Mapletree Oakwood Holdings. Mr. Ryan also serves as a member of the board of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University and as an independent director for World Lacrosse. Mr. Ryan’s qualifications to serve on our board include his extensive capital markets and mergers and acquisitions experience in both the United States and Asia, including both transaction execution and management oversight. Mr. Ryan provides high-value added services to our board of directors and has sufficient time to focus on the Company.
Carman Wong will serve as a director of the Company upon the completion of this offering. Ms. Wong has nearly 25 years of experience in investment banking and private equity, in both the United States and in Asia, ranging from managing high level corporate operations to leading transaction execution. Most recently, from 2016 to 2019 Ms. Wong was a managing director and the chief operating officer of Silk Road Finance, a newly established merchant bank and private equity house focused on the Belt and Road initiative jurisdictions. Prior to joining Silk Road Finance, Ms. Wong spent more than 20 years at global investment banks, initially in New York and subsequently in Hong Kong. Ultimately Ms. Wong was a managing director and chief operating officer of Nomura’s Asia ex Japan investment banking division where she was a member of the global investment banking division’s international operating committee and of the Asia ex Japan investment banking division’s management committee. Ms. Wong received her bachelor of science degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. Ms. Wong’s qualifications to serve on our board include her track record of building, expanding, integrating and managing businesses with top management, clients, partners and vendors. Ms. Wong provides high-value added services to our board of directors and has sufficient time to focus on the Company.
Ben Falloon will serve as a director of the Company upon the completion of this offering. Mr. Falloon has more than 20 years of experience in financial services in Asia on both the sell side and buy side in roles spanning day-to-day operations, management, trading, investment, compliance and business strategy. In particular, his regulatory oversight responsibilities have involved direct accountability to multiple prudential regulators across Asia and worldwide. Currently, Mr. Falloon is the Chief Revenue Officer of Trumid, a financial technology company. Previously, Mr. Falloon was a managing director of Sun Hung Kai and Co, in its principal investment group. Prior to joining Sun Hung Kai and Co, Mr. Falloon spent almost 20 years at global investment banks in Hong Kong, ultimately at Morgan Stanley as a managing director and head of fixed income for Asia Pacific, across trading, sales and structuring. Mr. Falloon received his bachelor of commerce degree in marketing and a post graduate diploma in commerce, each from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1992 and 1993 and has completed non-executive director training provided by the Financial Times. Mr. Falloon’s qualifications to serve on our board include his extensive experience in Asian capital markets transactions and strong relationships across the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Falloon provides high-value added services to our board of directors and has sufficient time to focus on the Company.
Diana Luo has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2020. Prior to her appointment as our Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Luo served as finance and accounting manager at Farallon Capital Asia from May 2011 to March 2020. Ms. Luo received her bachelor of science degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1999 and her MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois in 2010. Ms. Luo’s qualifications to serve as our Chief Financial Officer include her extensive experience in institutional and asset level financial, accounting, and compliance through various industries and asset types.
Peter Chambers has served as our Chief Operating Officer since July 2020. Mr. Chambers currently serves on a number of boards and has been instrumental in leading operational improvement projects in both his board and management roles at large corporations. Mr. Chambers is currently on the boards of Siloam Hospitals, a major independent hospital group in Indonesia, PT Kredit Pintar, an Indonesian company in the FinTech space, Indo Mines Limited, an Indonesia-based iron and sand mining company, and PT SRLabs, the Indonesia branch of the hacking research collective and consulting thinktank. Mr. Chambers also serves as a strategic advisor to PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk, one of Indonesia’s largest property groups. For many years Mr. Chambers served at PT XL Axiata Tbk, including as their Vice President Director and CFO where he was part of the team that established the business, transforming it into what is today one of Indonesia’s largest mobile communications companies with a market capitalization of approximately $1.8 billion. In 2004 Mr. Chambers joined XL Axiata’s major shareholder as a Managing Director, where one of his roles was part of the leadership team that led the operational improvement program at Semen Gresik, Indonesia’s largest cement company. At XL Axiata Mr. Chambers served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and from 2008 to 2020 served as a Commissioner. From 2014 to 2019 Mr. Chambers served at the XL Axiata shareholder level where he was a Director of the Axiata Group Berhad digital services company and served on their Risk Committee. From 2006 to 2018 Mr. Chambers served as the Chairman of their Cyber Security Committee. Mr. Chambers received a bachelor of business degree in finance and accounting from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in 1986.