LTVA

Withdrawn

LTV Capital Partners I

Raised
$215M
CIK
1851195
SPAC Ticker
LTVAU
Focus
Technology
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Jeffrey T. Housenbold. Mr. Housenbold has been our Chairman of the Board since March 2021. He has been a Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, a venture capital firm since June 2017 and will retire effective June 2021. From February 2016 to June 2017, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital fund. From January 2005 to February 2016, Mr. Housenbold served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of Shutterfly, Inc., a manufacturer and digital retailer of personalized products and services. Mr. Housenbold currently serves on the board of directors of DoorDash, Inc., a food service delivery technology company, and several private companies and on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He previously served as a director of Chegg, Inc., an education technology company, and Groupon, Inc., an e-commerce marketplace. Mr. Housenbold holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.S. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. Ms. Singh Cassidy has been our Chief Executive Officer since March 2021. Ms. Singh Cassidy has been Founder and Chairman of theBoardlist, a Benefit corporation and premium talent marketplace aimed at connecting diverse leaders with board and executive opportunities globally since July 2015 and co-founder and Venture Partner of the Diversify Capital Fund, a new growth stage investment fund from Acrew Capital since January 2021. From May 2018 to June 2020, she was President of StubHub, a ticket exchange and resale company, where she helped lead the company’s $4.05 billion sale to Viagogo in February 2020. Ms. Singh Cassidy served as chief executive officer of Joyus, a video commerce platform that she founded, from January 2011 until February 2017. She has previously held various executive and managerial positions at companies including Google, Amazon, Polyvore, Inc., Accel Partners, Yodlee.com, News Corporation, and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Ms. Singh Cassidy currently serves on the board of Upstart, Inc., a technology company in financial services, which she joined in February 2020, and on the board of Urban Outfitters, an omni-channel retailer which she joined in August 2017. She has previously served on the boards of Trip Advisor, Inc., LM Ericsson Telephone Company, J. Crew Group, Inc. and StitchFix, Inc, as well as being an active tech angle investor in companies such as Stitchfix, theRealReal, Sunbasket, Reformation and more. She has an undergraduate degree from the Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Dan McCormick . Mr. McCormick is an executive with extensive Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, Strategy, Finance & M&A experience. Dan McCormick has been retired since 2015. From 2008 to 2015, he was Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President & General Manager at Shutterfly, Inc. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. McCormick served in three cross-functional leadership positions at NetApp, Inc., a data management company. He was Director of Product Marketing from 2002 to 2003, where he developed and launched the company’s Reference Storage Business Unit; he led the company’s Corporate Development Group and was responsible for M&A and strategic investments from 2000 to 2002; and he served as Director of Strategic Finance from 1997 to 2000, where he was responsible for the company’s Financial Planning and Analysis group, strategic planning process, Investor Relations, Treasury and drove the development and execution of the storage industry-changing network-attached-storage reseller deal with Dell Computers. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. McCormick was a Senior Strategy Consultant with Accenture’s Media & Entertainment Strategy Group in New York. He also completed Digital Equipment Corp.’s three year Financial Management Program in 1991. Mr. McCormick earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his undergraduate degrees in Finance and Economics from Babson College, where graduated with High Honors.

Theresia Gouw . Ms. Gouw has been a Managing Partner at Acrew Capital, a venture capital firm, since she co-founded it in 2019. Since February 2014, Ms. Gouw has served as a Managing Partner of Aspect Ventures, L.P., a venture capital firm that she also co-founded. From February 1999 to February 2014, Ms. Gouw served in various senior roles at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm, including as Managing General Partner. She previously served on the board of directors of Trulia, Inc., an online real estate site, from 2005 to February 2015, and Imperva Inc., a cybersecurity company, from May 2002 to May 2016. Ms. Gouw holds a Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

In considering Ms. Gouw for director, the Board considered her extensive venture capital experience and leadership positions.

Philip A. Marineau . Mr. Marineau has been a Partner at LNK Partners, a private equity firm based in White Plains, New York, since October 2008. From 1999 through 2006, Mr. Marineau led Levi Strauss & Co., a clothing company, through a successful business turnaround as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Marineau served as Chairman of the Board of Shutterfly, Inc. from April 2007 to June 2016. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi-Cola North America from 1997 to 1999. Prior to Pepsi-Cola, North America, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Dean Foods Company and the Quaker Oats Company. He is currently Chairman of the Board of The Public Good Projects, a non-profit focused on transforming public health communication, and on the board of the Exploratorium, a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco. Mr. Marineau received his Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Georgetown University.

In considering Mr. Marineau for director, the Board considered his extensive executive and private equity experience.

Miriam Rivera is co-founder and managing director of Ulu Ventures, an early seed stage venture fund in Silicon Valley focused on IT startups. Ulu generates great financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs and also reduces cognitive bias. Prior to Ulu Ventures, Ms. Rivera was vice president / deputy general counsel at Google, which she joined in 2001 as the second attorney. There she helped build and lead an award-winning global legal department. Her work to re-design and simplify contracts helped Google scale from $85M to $10B in revenues in five years. Before Google, Ms. Rivera worked for Ariba as counsel, after having co-founded angel and then venture-backed Outcome Software. Previously, she worked as a strategy consultant for Accenture and as an associate at the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Ms. Rivera is the co-founder, former co-president and on the board of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs an “open source network” of Stanford alumni investors and entrepreneurs. She is a Kauffman Fellow in venture capital and a board member of the Kauffman Foundation, a national endowment dedicated to increasing opportunity for Americans through education and entrepreneurship. Ms. Rivera serves on the Investment Committee of Acumen Fund America, an impact investment fund serving the needs of low-income Americans. She is also on the Launch with GS Advisory Council, an initiative by Goldman Sachs to reduce the investing gap for Black and LatinX founders while driving returns.

In considering Ms. Rivera for director, the Board considered her experience leading a venture fund and her experience building a legal department at a public company.