CFFE

Definitive Agreement

CF Acquisition Corp. VIII

Underwriter: Cantor Fitzgerald
Raised
$200M
CIK
1839530
SPAC Ticker
CFFEU
Focus
Financial Services, Healthcare, Real Estate, Technology, Software
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Howard W. Lutnick has been our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since July 2020. Mr. Lutnick is also the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor. Mr. Lutnick joined Cantor in 1983 and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor since 1992 and as Chairman since 1996. Mr. Lutnick’s company, CF Group Management, Inc. (“CFGM”), is the managing general partner of Cantor. Mr. Lutnick is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of BGC Partners, Inc. and its Chief Executive Officer, positions in which he has served from June 1999 to the present. In addition, Mr. Lutnick has served as Chairman of Newmark Group, Inc. since 2016. Mr. Lutnick also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor SPAC I, from October 2015 until consummation of its business combination with GCM Grosvenor in November 2020. Mr. Lutnick also serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor SPAC II since September 2019, Cantor SPAC III since March 2016, Cantor SPAC IV since January 2020, Cantor SPAC V since April 2020 and Cantor SPAC VI since April 2020. Mr. Lutnick is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation at Rockefeller University, the Board of Directors of the Horace Mann School, the Board of Directors of the National September 11th Memorial & Museum, the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City, and the Board of Overseers of The Hoover Institution. In addition, Mr. Lutnick has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of each of Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust, Inc. (formerly known as Rodin Global Property Trust, Inc.) and Rodin Income Trust, Inc. since February 2017 and as President of Rodin Income Trust, Inc. since January 2018. We believe that Mr. Lutnick is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his extensive investment, management and public company experience.

Anshu Jain has been our President since January 2021. Mr. Jain will serve as a member of our board of directors on the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. Mr. Jain is also the President of Cantor, a position he has held since January 2017. Mr. Jain directs strategy, vision and operational foundation across Cantor’s businesses. Mr. Jain also served as the President of Cantor SPAC I, from January 2018, and a director of Cantor SPAC I from December 2018, until in each case consummation of its business combination with GCM Grosvenor in November 2020. Mr. Jain also serves as the President of Cantor SPAC II, since September 2019, and a director of Cantor SPAC II since August 2020, as the President of Cantor SPAC III, since March 2020 and a director of Cantor SPAC III since November 2020, as the President of Cantor SPAC IV since September 2020 and a director of Cantor SPAC IV since December 2020, as the President of Cantor SPAC V since September 2020 and a director of Cantor SPAC V since January 2021, and as the President of Cantor SPAC VI since October 2020 and a director of Cantor SPAC VI since February 2021. Mr. Jain was Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from June 2012 to June 2015. Between February 2016 and March 2017, Mr. Jain was an advisor to Social Finance Inc. and consultant to Deutsche Bank from July 2015 to January 2016. He was also a member of Deutsche Bank’s Management Board from 2009 to 2015 and Deutsche Bank’s Group Executive Committee from 2002 to 2015 and previously led Deutsche Bank’s team advising the UK Treasury on financial stability. Mr. Jain joined Deutsche Bank from Merrill Lynch in 1995. Mr. Jain sat on the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Finance from 2012 to 2015 and previously was a member of the Financial Services Forum and served on the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Mr. Jain is a trustee of Chance to Shine, a leading UK based sports charity whose mission is to spread the power of cricket throughout schools and communities. Mr. Jain also serves on the MIT Sloan Finance Group Advisory Board. Mr. Jain received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics, with honors, from the University of Delhi and his MBA in Finance, Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We believe that Mr. Jain is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to his extensive investment and management experience.

Alice Chan has been our Chief Financial Officer since January 2021. Ms. Chan will serve as a member of our board of directors on the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. Ms. Chan joined Cantor in March 2015 and has served as the Global Controller and Managing Director since March 2019. In this position, Ms. Chan oversees a range of financial functions for Cantor and its affiliates, most notably financial reporting, consolidations, new accounting standard implementations, corporate accounting, and process enhancements. Ms. Chan has also served as the Chief Financial Officer and a director of Cantor SPAC II, Cantor SPAC III, Cantor SPAC IV and Cantor SPAC V since January 2021, and as the Chief Financial Officer of Cantor SPAC VI since January 2021 and a director of Cantor SPAC VI since February 2021. In addition, Ms. Chan has been the Chief Financial Officer of Fintan Master Fund Ltd and the Chief Financial Officer of Fintan Investments Ltd since January 2019. Prior to joining Cantor, Ms. Chan worked at Goldman Sachs for approximately 10 years, focusing on broker dealers’ financial and regulatory reporting, and bank financial reporting. Ms. Chan holds Series 27 and 99 licenses. She received a B.S. in Finance from Pace University and a M.S. in Accounting from St. John’s University. We believe that Ms. Chan is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors due to her extensive accounting and management experience.