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SVF Investment Corp.
- Registration2020-12-21 Filed S1
- IPO2021-01-09 IPO, search begins
- Definitive AgreementNo merger agreement yet
- Failed2023-02-06 Merger Failed
- Raised
- $525M
- CIK
- 1828478
- SPAC Ticker
- SVFAU
- Focus
- Technology, Communications, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Software, Transportation, FinTech
SPAC Team
Leadership
Rajeev Misra is our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer . Mr. Misra serves as the CEO of SoftBank Investment Advisers, the investment manager to the SoftBank Vision Funds, Corporate Officer and Executive Vice President of SoftBank Group Corp. Previously he was a Senior Managing Director and Partner at Fortress Investment Group. Prior to that, he served as the Global Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities at UBS between 2009 and 2013 and Global Head of Credit and Emerging Markets at Deutsche Bank between 1997 and 2008, where he built a successful global fixed income business from scratch; recruiting and mentoring many employees. Mr. Misra currently is a Board Member of Fortress Investment Group, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT Sloan School of Management, and is on the Board of Trustees of KAUST. He received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
We believe Mr. Misra is well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his significant investment experience and vast network of relationships.
Navneet Govil is our director and Chief Financial Officer . Mr. Govil currently serves as a Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA). Prior to joining SoftBank, Mr. Govil served in senior corporate officer roles for publicly traded multinational corporations. At CA Technologies, Mr. Govil was Senior Vice President of Finance and Strategic Pricing, where he led treasury, corporate business development, pricing and business unit finance functions. Previously, he was Vice President of Corporate Development and Project Finance as well as Treasurer at SunPower Corporation. Mr. Govil also served in several capacities during his eight-year tenure at Sun Microsystems, most recently as Controller for its Microelectronics Group. He also held finance positions at Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer and Fortistar Capital. Mr. Govil currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee for the board of directors of ARM Holdings and as board director of SBIA US. Mr. Govil earned MBA and MEng degrees from Cornell University.
We believe Mr. Govil is well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his depth of investment experience and vast network of relationships.