SNRH

Letter Of Intent

Senior Connect Acquisition Corp. I

Underwriter: Citigroup
Raised
$300M
CIK
1823854
SPAC Ticker
SNRHU
Focus
Senior Care, Healthcare
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Richard T. Burke, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman , was the founder, former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman until late 2017, and current Lead Independent Director of, UnitedHealth. Until November 2000, Mr. Burke was the owner, Chief Executive Officer and Governor of the Phoenix Coyotes, a National Hockey League team. He has served as a director of numerous private and public companies, is a private investor in many others, and is a Managing Partner at Rainy, an investment fund that owns and operates a number of businesses. Mr. Burke has had extensive experience serving the senior market through his tenure at UnitedHealth, and he is the principal investor in and Executive Chairman of a senior-oriented business, Secure. From 2004 to 2019, Mr. Burke was a director for Meritage Homes Corporation; he also previously served on the audit committees of the board of directors of UnitedHealth, Meritage Homes Corporation and First Cash Financial Services, Inc. Mr. Burke holds a MBA in Finance from Georgia State University. Mr. Burke is the father of Ryan Burke, our Chief Financial Officer and a director. We believe Mr. Burke is well qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his extensive experience in the healthcare industry, as well as his significant leadership, finance and operational experience.

Isaac “Yitz” Applbaum, our President and a member of our board of directors , is a Co-founder and Partner of MizMaa, a fund which invests in Israeli startup companies in the mobility, cloud and digital healthcare space. Mr. Applbaum is also currently a Special Advisor to EIGHT, a venture fund which invests in enterprise software and healthcare technologies, and 7Wire, a digital healthcare venture group that was one of the early investors in Livongo. In addition, Mr. Applbaum is a co-founder of Secure, where he has been a director since January 2019. Mr. Applbaum also helped found and build SecureKey, a blockchain technologies company, where he currently serves as a board observer, a position he has held since 2012. Mr. Applbaum also served as an early investor and director of mobile payments company Kili from 2013 to 2017 before it was acquired by Square, Inc. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Applbaum was a board member of 7/24. Mr. Applbaum was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture fund, from 2001 to 2006. Mr. Applbaum was also a founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Concorde from 1994 to 1999, when it was sold to Bank of America. Mr. Applbaum holds a BA from Yeshiva University. We believe Mr. Applbaum is well qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his broad experience in the healthcare industry, along with his significant leadership, finance and operational experience.

Ryan Burke, our Chief Financial Officer , has been Chief Investment Officer for Rainy since 2008, where he evaluates all new investment opportunities and helps manage Rainy’s portfolio of private investments, publicly traded securities, and operating businesses. Mr. Burke is currently Chief Investment Officer of BFO, LLC, a Partner at Prime Macaya Capital Management, LP, a New York-based hedge fund. Prior to its recent sale to Galaxy Digital Holdings, he was also a partner and director at Blue Fire Capital, a proprietary trading firm and global liquidity provider specializing in cryptocurrencies. Mr. Burke is currently acting Chief Financial Officer of Secure, and previously served as Chief Financial Officer for various Rainy portfolio companies. Prior to 2008, he was a Portfolio Manager and Chief Risk Officer at Alpine, a New York-based long-short hedge fund. Mr. Burke began his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Capital, a then $1.9 billion private equity fund. Mr. Burke holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Fuqua School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. Mr. Burke is the son of Richard T. Burke, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. We believe Mr. Burke is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive finance and operational experience.

Steven Schwartz, our Executive Vice President of M&A , brings over 30 years of digital health industry transaction experience to the team. For the past four years Mr. Schwartz was the Senior Vice President of business and corporate development at Livongo, where he was responsible for the series acquisitions which culminated in Livongo’s $18.5 billion merger with Teladoc. Previously, Mr. Schwartz held Senior Vice President of corporate development and strategy roles at Tivity and prior to that at 23andMe, Inc. Earlier in his career Mr. Schwartz held executive leadership positions in business and corporate development at Allscripts for 14 years, and senior management roles at LabCorp for 10 years. Mr. Schwartz currently serves on the board of directors of illuma Care Connections and the Kline Galland senior care organization. Mr. Schwartz holds a BA in business administration from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a BA in psychology also from the University of Washington. We believe Mr. Schwartz is well-qualified to serve on our management team due to his extensive transactional experience and broad digital health domain knowledge, as well as his specific knowledge of the senior care market.

Jeffrey A. Leerink, one of our Directors , is currently the Chief Executive Officer of SVB Leerink, a leading investment bank serving the healthcare industry. Mr. Leerink founded Leerink Partners in 1995; under Mr. Leerink’s leadership, Leerink Partners co-founded a private equity business focused on the healthcare industry that consisted of two fund companies; Leerink Transformation Partners, focused on investing in technology-enabled healthcare companies, and Leerink Revelation Partners, a secondary investment fund focused on commercial companies with proven business models or companies with novel technologies. In 2008, Mr. Leerink co-founded and was a member of the board of directors of Humedica, Inc. Mr. Leerink currently serves on the board of directors of FogPharma. Additionally, Mr. Leerink currently serves as a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. Mr. Leerink holds a BA in Economics from Union College. We believe Mr. Leerink is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive experience in both the financial and healthcare sectors.

Lee Shapiro, one of our Directors , is the Chief Financial Officer of Livongo and Managing Partner at 7Wire, an investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago. Previously, he was President of Allscripts from 2002 to 2012. Mr. Shapiro’s responsibilities included the company’s strategy, international operations, business development and partnerships, legal, government relations, health plan initiatives and business activities in the areas of analytics and information services. At times during his tenure at Allscripts, he served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer leveraging his unique grasp of the business operations across the spectrum of development, sales, marketing, services and support. Mr. Shapiro previously served on the board of directors of Livongo, where he chaired the audit committee and served as a member of the compensation committee. He also was a member of the executive leadership team, with a focus on strategy and business development. Mr. Shapiro served on the board of directors of Medidata (Nasdaq: MDSO), where he served on the audit committee and nominating and governance committee, from 2011 until its sale to Dassault in 2019. Mr. Shapiro also served on the board of Tivity (Nasdaq: TVTY), where he chaired the audit committee and served on the compensation committee, from 2015 until May 2020. He also currently serves on the board and committees of various 7Wire portfolio companies. Since 2016, Mr. Shapiro has been a member of the National Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, where he chairs the audit committee and serves on the business operations committee. Mr. Shapiro practiced commercial law at Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum, Perlman and Nagelberg, a prominent Chicago law firm. Mr. Shapiro holds a JD degree from The University of Chicago Law School and a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois. We believe Mr. Shapiro is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive experience in both the financial and healthcare sectors.

Mark A. Thierer, one of our Directors , has served as a Managing Partner at Assetblue, an investment company, since August 2017. Before joining Assetblue, Mr. Thierer served as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Dentsply from September 2017 to February 2018. Prior to Dentsply, Mr. Thierer served as the Chief Executive Officer of OptumRx, overseeing all Optum pharmacy care services, including the management of pharmacy benefits, pharmacy network, home delivery pharmacy and specialty pharmacy programs, from July 2015 to September 2017. Prior to OptumRx, Mr. Thierer served on the board of directors at Catamaran from September 2006 to July 2015, and as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from March 2011 to July 2015. Earlier in his career, Mr. Thierer served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of SXC, which merged with Catalyst in 2012 to create Catamaran. Prior to this, Mr. Thierer led Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) as President from 2003 to 2006. Before that, he served in a variety of executive roles at CaremarkRx, including most recently as Senior Vice President, New Ventures, and was responsible for developing Caremark’s growth strategy. Prior to Caremark, Mr. Thierer worked in various management positions within the health industry of IBM (NYSE: IBM). Mr. Thierer has served on the board of directors of Rightway Healthcare, Inc. since April 2020, Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since October 2019, where he sits on the audit committee, and Discover Financial Services, Inc. since April 2013. Mr. Thierer is also an advisor to the Jeffrey Pride Foundation for Pediatric Cancer Research. Mr. Thierer received a BS in Finance from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Nova Southern University. Mr. Thierer also holds the designation of CEBS (Certified Employee Benefits Specialist) from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe Mr. Thierer is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive experience in both the financial and healthcare sectors.