Mr. Moazami will serve as an independent director and the Chairman of Audit Committee following completion of the Business Combination. Mr. Moazami is the founder andManaging Partner of Seif Capital, a technology investment and advisory firm in Silicon Valley. Mr. Moazami is senior advisor to Blackstone, Siguler Guff ($20 Billion in Assets Under Management), andOpengate Capital ($3 Billion in Assets Under Management). Further, Mr Moazami is an operatingpartner at Kestrel Partners in London, which aims to generate superior long-term returns for its clients by investing and driving change in under-valued, under-researched business critical software companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Moazami is a 2010 Ellis Island Medal of Honor awardee. Mr. Moazami holds a Masters of Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University andBachelors of Science in Engineering Sciences and a Minor in Economics from University of California, San Diego.
Mr. Iyer will serve as an independent director following the completion of the Business Combination. Mr. Iyer is currently serves as the chief executive officer of NIO U.S. Mr. Iyer has over 35 years of experience delivering proven results in various industries including autonomous technology, hi-tech, manufacturing, and telecom. Mr. Iyer worked as vice president of Information Technology at Tesla Inc. until 2016. Prior to Tesla, Mr. Iyer held senior information technology leadership roles at VMWare from 2010 to 2016. Prior to VMWare, Mr. Iyer served as director of information technology at Juniper Networks and WebEx and worked in consulting, primarily at Electronic Data Systems. Mr. Iyer received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Calicut in India.
Mohanraj Ramasamy has served as the Managing Director of SVM since its inception in March 2018 and Chief Executive Officer and director of SVH since its inception in June 2021.
Prior to starting SVM he served at Tesla from 2012 to 2015 in various capacities across the organization, from the Vehicle Engineering, Carnet, Information Services, Disaster Recovery establishment, Warp Application, Service Module development, and eCommerce platform scale-up.
Mr. Ramasamy enrolled in the executive MBA program at the University of San Francisco in 2015. After completing his MBA, Mr. Ramasamy started SVM. He also has an engineering degree in Computer Technology from Nachimuthu Polytechnic College.
Over 20 years of passion and drive to build a transformative EV mobility company; worked closely with industry pioneers in technology & innovative technologies in Silicon Valley as well as in India. He shares his time between in India and the US.
Ms. Gullapalli will serve as an independent director following completion of the Business Combination. She is an investment banker by profession, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Gullapalli has worked in the investment banking for over 30 years in various regions of the world, including South Asia. She has commenced and run start-ups. She advises companies on Merger and Acquisition, financial restructuring and capital raising. She currently practices in the U.K. Ms. Gullapalli has led teams involved in creating joint ventures and taken a company public via initial public offering. Ms. Gullapalli is an author with published works, one recently published collection of fictional short stories and is writing a novel. Ms. Gullapalli works with NGOs in the U.K and in India that are focused primarily on and are involved in child protection, education for young girls and orphans. Ms. Gullapalli has an education in corporate law, financial strategy, taxation and economics, chartered secretary and a chartered financial analyst (I) with a Diploma in Basic Finance, and an MBA from INSTEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration).
Dr. Reichental will serve as an independent director following completion of the Business Combination. Dr. Reichental is a multiple-award-winning technology leader and professor with over 30-years of experience spanning private and public sectors, as well as academia. Dr. Reichental served as Chief Technology Officer at City of Palo Alto, California from 2011 to 2018 and O’Reilly Media from 2010-2011. Dr. Reichental worked in several technical managerial roles and is a recognized global thought leader on a number of emerging trends including urban innovation, smart cities, sustainability, blockchain technology, data governance, the fourth industrial revolution, and digital transformation. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco and instructs at several other universities. Dr. Reichental has a passion for sharing his knowledge to create and inspire doers. Dr. Reichental has written six books, regularly creates technology training which is shared through online platforms such as LinkedIn. Dr. Reichental holds several degrees including a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University.