Merged into Mondee, ticker now MOND
ITHX

Completed

Mondee

MOND
First $9.95
Merger $8.61
13%
Merger +6mo $10.90
10%
Merger +1yr $8.32
16%
Recent $2.92
71%

ITHAX Acquisition Corp.

Underwriter: Cantor Fitzgerald
Raised
$175M
CIK
1828852
SPAC Ticker
ITHXU
Merger
Mondee
Merged Ticker
MOND
Focus
Leisure, Hospitality, Travel, Unicorns
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Orestes Fintiklis, our Chief Executive Officer since October 2020, will serve as Chairman of our Board of Directors upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. He has more than 15 years of experience in hospitality investment and asset management and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ithaca Capital Partners, a private equity real estate investment management company. In the past three years alone, Ithaca has acquired and/or asset-managed five hospitality businesses, including the acquisition of iconic and award-winning hotels such as the JW Marriott Panama and W Hotel Bogota (which, in 2020, readers of Condé Nast Traveler voted as the fourth best hotel in Latin America and the 10th best hotel in the world). He oversees all aspects of Ithaca, including sourcing, acquisitions, structuring, strategy, asset management and disposals. Mr. Fintiklis joined Dolphin Capital Partners in June 2007, and served as a partner from December 2013 to January 2017. Dolphin Capital Partners raised approximately $600 million of equity since June 2007 and raised and invested a total of approximately $1.1 billion of equity since December 2005 into multiple hotels and resorts. Prior to that, he was an attorney at Clifford Chance LLC in London and Brussels from August 2004 to August 2006. Mr. Fintiklis has a bachelor’s degree in law (Jurisprudence) from Oxford University (England), where he graduated first in his class, and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with distinction from INSEAD Business School (France). He is a director in multiple hospitality and real estate private companies and is an active member of YPO. We believe that Mr. Fintiklis is qualified to serve as a director of our company due to his extensive investment background and experience as an executive, and his global network of business contacts.

Dimitrios Athanasopoulos, has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Director since October 2020. He is a Founding Partner, Group Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee of AXIA Ventures Group, or AXIA. AXIA is a leading, independent, privately-owned investment bank founded in 2008 that provides services in more than 20 countries through its offices in Nicosia, Greece, Athens, New York, London, Milan and Lisbon. Since joining AXIA in December 2008, Mr. Athanasopoulos has been involved in real estate transactions with an aggregate transaction value of more than $3 billion and non-real estate transactions with overall value of over $28 billion. From November 2000 to November 2008, he served as an executive in family offices and prior to that, he worked in the Private Wealth Management divisions of Salomon Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley in New York. Mr. Athanasopoulos holds a B.B.A. in Finance and Investments from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. We believe that Mr. Athanasopoulos is qualified to serve as a director of our company due to his extensive investment background and experience as an executive, and his global network of business contacts.

Carlos N. Guimarães will serve on our board of directors upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Since 2009, Mr. Guimarães has served as the Chairman of LAIG Investments, an investment company focused on the energy sector across Latin America. From July 2007 to February 2009, he was the Chairman and Co-Founder of Invest Tur Brasil, a pioneer in resort developments in Brazil, which raised $503 million in the public markets and listed on the São Paulo stock exchange that is now known as the B3. Mr. Guimarães led Invest Tur Brasil’s merger with LA Hotels in 2009, which created Brazil Hospitality Group (BHG). Within one year of the merger, BHG became the third-largest hotel operator in Brazil with over 5,800 rooms under management. From January 2005 to December 2006, Mr. Guimarães was the Private Sector Coordinator for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction for all private sector activities of the IADB Group. Prior to that, from May 2000 to November 2004 he was a Managing Director, Head of Latin America Investment Banking and Senior Client Officer for Citigroup. Mr. Guimarães received a B.S. in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Mr. Guimarães is qualified to serve as a director of our company because of his extensive leadership, business development, and financial experience.

George Syllantavos will serve on our board of directors upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Mr. Syllantavos co-founded in February 2013 and has served since then as the Chief Executive Officer of Nautilus Energy Management Corp. (not affiliated with Nautilus Offshore Services Inc.), a maritime energy services company involved in maritime project business development and ship management focusing on the dry-bulk tanker and gas sectors. Mr. Syllantavos also serves as a director of Sevenseas Investment Fund (Luxembourg-regulated), a maritime assets investment fund. In addition, Mr. Syllantavos serves as the Co-Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director of Growth Capital Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition. Mr. Syllantavos served as co-Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director of Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. from December 2015 until its business combination in December 2018 with Phunware, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHUN), a company that provides fully-integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile, and has served as a director of Phunware, Inc. since such date. From May 2011 until February 2013, Mr. Syllantavos co-founded and served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Nautilus Marine Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: NMAR), a special purpose acquisition company that completed an initial public offering on July 16, 2011 and was listed on the Nasdaq. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Nautilus Marine’s successor, Nautilus Offshore Services, Inc. an offshore service vessel owner, from February 2013 until April 2014. From May 2005 to November 2007, he served as the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Director of Star Maritime Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: SEA), and from November 2007 to August 2011, he served as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director of the successor company, Star Bulk Carriers Corp. (Nasdaq: SBLK), a dry-bulk ship-owning company. Previously, Mr. Syllantavos held multiple executive, director and leadership roles in the maritime and shipping, aviation, energy, and telecommunications industries, including serving as a financial advisor to Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., where he assisted with the company’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: OTE) that raised $1.1 billion. From September 2009 to December 2016, he was the President, Secretary, Treasurer and sole director of BTHC X, Inc. (OTCBB: BTXI). Mr. Syllantavos has a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Roosevelt University in Chicago and an M.B.A. in Operations Management, International Finance and Transportation Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. We believe that Mr. Syllantavos is qualified to serve as a director of our company because of his extensive experience in leadership roles, including those with other SPACs.

Rahul Vir will serve on our board of directors upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Mr. Vir is a hospitality executive with a distinguished career overseeing multiple operational facets of more than 260 hotels. He has held various leadership roles during his 25 years at Marriott International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAR). Since January 2020, he has served as Vice President for Owner & Franchise Relations and Marriott Select Brands for the Caribbean and Latin America. From February 2013 to December 2019, he was Area Vice President for the Caribbean and Latin America overseeing hotel portfolios in Central and South America. Prior to that and at the beginning of his career, Mr. Vir had even more hands-on experience in the travel, hospitality and leisure sectors, as General Manager of multiple hotels in the United States and Brazil from February 2004 to February 2013. We believe that Mr. Vir is qualified to serve as a director of our company because of his extensive experience in leadership roles within the hospitality industry.