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Warburg Pincus Capital Corp I-B
- Registration2021-02-17 Filed S1
- IPO2021-03-06 IPO, search begins
- Definitive AgreementNo merger agreement yet
- FailedNot yet completed
- Raised
- $500M
- CIK
- 1836074
- SPAC Ticker
- WPCB.U
SPAC Team
Leadership
Christopher H. Turner, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer , is a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus and leads the firm’s U.S. Investment Support Group comprising Capital Markets, Marketing and Communications, Public Policy/ESG, Digital Strategy and Innovation, Shared Services, and Leadership/Organizational Effectiveness. Mr. Turner is also a member of Warburg Pincus’ Executive Management Group. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2005 to lead the firm’s Capital Markets group, Mr. Turner was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Turner is a member of the JDRF International Board of Directors, where he serves as Chair of the Investment Committee, and of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he serves on the Committee on Corporate Affairs. Mr. Turner has lectured at Columbia Business School and the Wharton School on Private Equity and Corporate Finance. Mr. Turner received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Tara O’Neill, our Chief Financial Officer , will be appointed to our board of directors in connection with this offering. Mrs. O’Neill has served as a Senior Vice President in the Finance and Legal Department at Warburg Pincus since 2015 and is responsible for the firm’s global special purpose entity operations. Mrs. O’Neill has 26 years of experience in the field of accounting and finance. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1999, Mrs. O’Neill was a Tax Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers specializing in Financial Services Clients. Mrs. O’Neill holds a B.S. from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
Mark Colodny will be appointed to our board of directors in connection with this offering. Mr. Colodny is currently Managing Director, Co-Head of U.S. Private Equity at Warburg Pincus, and has held various positions at Warburg Pincus beginning in 2001, including Managing Director and Head of the Technology Group. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2001, Mr. Colodny served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Primedia from 1995 to 2000 where he ran the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Mr. Colodny began his career at Fortune Magazine where he was a journalist from 1989 to 1991. Mr. Colodny has served as member of board of directors Helix OpCo, LLC since 2016. ProPublica since 2021 and The City since 2019, and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Colodny received a B.A. from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
James Neary will be appointed to our board of directors in connection with this offering. Mr. Neary is currently Managing Director, Co-Head of U.S. Private Equity at Warburg Pincus. During his career at Warburg Pincus, which began in 2000, Mr. Neary has led Industrials and Business Services; Late Stage Technology-enabled Services; Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Capital Markets. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2000, Mr. Neary was a Managing Director at Chase Securities. Mr. Neary is currently the Chairman or serves as a member of the board of directors of several companies including Allied Universal since 2018, Consolidated Precision Products since 2019, Duravant since 2017, Endurance International Group since 2011, Hygiena since 2016, Sotera Health (NASDAQ:SHC) since 2015 and Wex (NYSE:WEX) since 2016. Among other public and private companies, Mr. Neary has previously served as a member of the board of directors of the Boards of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., Interactive Data Corporation, InComm Holdings, Coyote Logistics, EFS (Electronic Funds Source) and Alert Global Media Holdings. Mr. Neary has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Mount Sinai Health System since and The Eaglebrook School. In addition, Mr. Neary has served as the Co-Chair of the President’s Council at Tufts University since 2016. Mr. Neary received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the Eugene Lerner Finance Scholar.
David Coulter will be appointed to our board of directors in connection with this offering. Mr. Coulter was employed by Warburg Pincus as a Managing Director focusing on financial services from 2005 until 2014. Since 2014, Mr. Coulter has been designated a Special Limited Partner of Warburg Pincus. From 2000 through 2005, Mr. Coulter held a series of positions at J.P. Morgan Chase and was a member of the Office of the Chairman. Mr. Coulter also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BankAmerica Corporation from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Coulter has served a member of the board of directors of Varo Money, Inc. since 2016, American Prairie Reserve since 2018, Carnegie Mellon University since 1997, IQ2US since 2019, Lincoln Center since 2015, Macaulay Honors College since 2016, Northern California Asia Society since 1990, Providence Resources Services Corporation since 2018, Third Way since 2018 and Triton International Ltd. (NYSE:TRTN) since 2014.