Merged into Virgin Orbit, ticker now VORB
NGCA

Completed

Virgin Orbit

NextGen Acquisition Corp. II

Raised
$400M
CIK
1843388
SPAC Ticker
NGCA
Merger
Virgin Orbit
Merged Ticker
VORB
Focus
Industrial, Technology, Healthcare
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

George N. Mattson has been a Co-Chairman since January 18, 2021. Mr. Mattson served as a director of the Board of Directors of NextGen I since July 2020 and as Co-Chairman of NextGen I since September 2020. Mr. Mattson is an independent investor focusing on control investment in lower middle market companies. Mr. Mattson served as a Partner and Co-Head of the Global Industrials Group in Investment Banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from November 2002 through August 2012. Mr. Mattson joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 and served in a variety of positions before becoming Partner and Co-Head of the Global Industrials Group. Mr. Mattson serves as a director of Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE: DAL), where he is chair of the Finance Committee, a director of Air France-KLM S.A. (PAR: AF) and Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. Mr. Mattson holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe Mr. Mattson’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his substantial strategic, financial and transactional experience and deep expertise in the industrial sector, and his experience serving as a director for various public and private companies.

Gregory L. Summe has been a Co-Chairman since January 18, 2021. Mr. Summe served as a director of the Board of Directors of NextGen I since July 2020 and as Co-Chairman of NextGen I since September 2020. Mr. Summe is the Founder and Managing Partner of Glen Capital Partners LLC, a value-oriented investment fund. From 2009 to 2014, Mr. Summe was the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Global Buyout at the Carlyle Group. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Summe was the Chairman, CEO and President of PerkinElmer, Inc., a global provider of products, services and solutions for the diagnostics, life sciences and applied markets which he led from 1998 to 2009. He also served as a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs Capital Partners from 2008 to 2009. Prior to joining PerkinElmer, Mr. Summe was with AlliedSignal, now Honeywell International, serving successively as the President of General Aviation Avionics, President of the Aerospace Engines Group, and President of the Automotive Products Group. Before joining AlliedSignal, he was the General Manager of Commercial Motors at General Electric and was a Partner with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Inc. Mr. Summe serves as a director of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI), the State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), Avantor Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), Ohana Biosciences, and the Pella Corporation. He chairs the Nominating & Governance Committees at NXP Semiconductors, State Street and Avantor along with the Strategy Committee at State Street and the Compensation Committee at Pella. He was previously the chairman of the board of directors of Freescale Semiconductor and Euromax International, and a director of Biomet Inc., TRW Inc., LMI Aerospace, Veyance, and Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADP). Mr. Summe holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky and the University of Cincinnati, and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is in the Engineering Hall of Distinction at the University of Kentucky. We believe Mr. Summe’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his extensive operational and business transformation experience in the healthcare and industrial sectors, his track-record of public and private equity investments and his experience serving as a director for various public and private companies.

Patrick T. Ford has served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since January 18, 2021. Mr. Ford has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of NextGen I since July 2020. Mr. Ford has spent over a decade working in the financial services industry, including as Director of Investments of Glen Capital, which he joined in 2015. Prior to Glen Capital, Mr. Ford was Vice President of Chestnut Securities, Inc., where he advised healthcare, technology and industrial clients on equity and debt placements, M&A advisory, financial planning & analysis, valuation and tender defense. Mr. Ford is a CFA® charterholder and CFP® certificant. Mr. Ford holds a B.A. in Russian from Middlebury College.

Jeffrey M. Moslow will serve as a director following the completion of this offering. Mr. Moslow served as a director of the Board of Directors of NextGen I since October 2020. Since 2012, Mr. Moslow, in partnership with Mr. Mattson, has personally made control investments in lower middle market private industrial companies with a strategic focus on partnering with founders and management teams to provide capital and experience to drive organic and inorganic growth. Prior to 2012 Mr. Moslow was a partner at Goldman Sachs & Co. Over the course of his career he ran Investment Banking Services, which had oversight of the relationships of Corporate and Sponsor clients in the Americas. He also served on the Commitments Committee which had global oversight for reviewing firm wide underwriting for diligence and reputational issues. Mr. Moslow was also a trusted advisor to many companies across all industries. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations, including his alma mater, Tufts University where he is currently the Vice Chairman, chairs the Finance Committee and is a member of the Investment Committee for the endowment. He has also chaired numerous audit and risk committees for nonprofit organizations. Mr. Moslow holds B.S. degrees in Classics and Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. We believe Mr. Moslow’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his broad financial and transactional experience.

Josef H. von Rickenbach will serve as a director following the completion of this offering. Mr. von Rickenbach served as a director of the Board of Directors of NextGen I since October 2020. Mr. von Rickenbach is the Managing Director of stet vision LLC. He serves as Chairman of the Board at ZAGENO and also as a Director on the Board of Aileron Therapeutics. Previously Mr. von Rickenbach was co-Founder, President & CEO of biotech company Helio Vision, Inc., a Boston-based ophthalmic biopharma company developing a therapy for proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). Helio Vision was merged into Aldeyra Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ALDX) in early 2019. Mr. von Rickenbach was co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of PAREXEL International Corporation. He took PAREXEL from its pioneering beginnings as one of the first clinical research organizations (CROs) in the early 1980s to one of the top three global biopharmaceutical services providers. He led PAREXEL through its IPO, multiple public offerings, and over 40 mergers and acquisitions during his 36 years at the helm of the company, expanding its services portfolio to meet changing client needs and market demand. Under his leadership, PAREXEL evolved to provide a comprehensive range of drug development services, including globally integrated clinical development, regulatory affairs consulting, commercialization services and information technologies that expedite time-to-market. In a “going private” transaction in 2017, PAREXEL was acquired for $5 billion by Pamplona Capital Management. Mr. von Rickenbach holds a B.A. in Business Economics from Lucerne University in Switzerland and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. We believe Mr. von Rickenbach’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his diverse experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and his extensive transactional expertise.

Melina E. Higgins will serve as a director following the completion of this offering. Ms. Higgins joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1989 and retired as a Partner in 2010. She was Head of the Americas for Private Debt and served on the Principal Investment Area Investment Committee that approved and oversaw global private equity and private debt investments. She was co-chairperson of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Goldman Sachs mezzanine funds and previously served on the Investment Committee for the Urban Investment Group. U.S. Banker ranked her as one of the Top 20 Nonbank Women in Finance. Ms. Higgins has significant board experience, having served on the boards of directors of over a dozen companies. She is currently chairperson of Antares Midco, Inc. and a director of Genworth Financial, Inc. and Viatris Inc., where she serves as chair of the Finance Committee. Ms. Higgins is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Colgate University. We believe that Ms. Higgins’ qualifications to serve on our board of directors include her extensive investment and financial experience and her experience serving as a director for various public and private companies.