TAILWIND TWO ACQUISITION - Key Persons


Alan Sheriff

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Mr. Sheriff co-founded Solebury Capital in 2005 and served as its Co-Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2020. Mr. Sheriff has also served as Vice Chairman of Corporate and Institutional Banking, PNC Financial Services Group since 2020. Under his guidance and leadership, Solebury Capital has become a premier independent equity capital advisory firm, known for bringing deep product expertise, market knowledge and unbiased advice to its clients. At Solebury Capital, Mr. Sheriff has personally worked on hundreds of IPOs, follow-ons and block trades and has provided general capital markets counsel to financial sponsors such as Bain Capital, Ares Management, Apollo, American Securities, TH Lee, Freeman Spogli, TSG Consumer and many others. Mr. Sheriff has also worked directly with companies such as Nielson, Dunkin Brands, Canada Goose, BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products), Aramark, Black Knight Financial, Patheon, Planet Fitness and Casper Sleep. Prior to founding Solebury Capital, Mr. Sheriff held several senior-level positions at Credit Suisse First Boston, including serving as Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets for the Americas from 1999 to 2005. Mr. Sheriff also chaired Credit Suisse's Equity Valuation Committee from 1999 to 2005 and sat on the firm's Investment Banking Committee from 2001 to 2005. Mr. Sheriff began his career at Salomon Brothers where he worked from 1983 to 1992. Mr. Sheriff currently serves as director of Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (NYSE: TWND). Mr. Sheriff graduated from the University of Rochester in 1981 with a B.A. in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He also received an MPA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations since 1999, the NationSwell Council since 2016 and the Travis Manion Foundation since 2018. Mr. Sheriff has also served on the board of PsychHub since 2019.

Boris Revsin

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Managing Director and Head of Private Capital at Republic
Boris Revsin serves on our board of directors. Boris is the Managing Director and Head of Private Capital at Republic. The Private Capital team at Republic manages over $330M in net assets, primarily focusing on frontier and fintech investments. At Republic, Boris is responsible for sourcing and leading investments, as well as serving as an advisor or board member to portfolio companies. At Republic, Boris led investments into Robinhood, EquipmentShare, Dapper, Relativity Space and many others. In the past, Boris was the co-founder of VentureApp, now known as HqO, a leading property technology company backed with over $40M in venture capital. Prior to VentureApp, Boris served as the co-founder of Breaktime Media, an advertising technology company, which was sold to Connelly Partners in 2015. Breaktime Media raised over $15M in venture capital from leading firms like Highland Capital and Charles River Ventures. Prior to Breaktime Media, Boris worked as the lead engineer and project manager for eNilsson, the development and design agency attached to the 2008 Mitt Romney For President campaign. Boris studied computer science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Chris Hollod - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chief Executive Officer
  • Director
Chris Hollod, our co-Chief Executive Officer and a director on our board of directors, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hollod Holdings, a private venture capital and advisory firm based in Los Angeles that invests in innovative consumer brands at the convergence of culture and wellness. Over the course of his career, Mr. Hollod has completed more than 150 deals across five different investment entities, including investments in Airbnb, Uber, Spotify, Houzz, Duolingo, Airtable, Warby Parker, Oscar, Flexport, Sweetgreen, Memphis Meats and Thrive Market. From 2010 to 2018, Mr. Hollod was the Managing Partner of A-Grade Investments alongside Ashton Kutcher, Ron Burkle and Guy Oseary. Mr. Hollod was also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Inevitable Ventures with Ron Burkle and D.A. Wallach from 2015 to 2018. From 2009 to 2017, Mr. Hollod was the Venture Partner at Ron Burkle's private investment firm, The Yucaipa Companies, where he oversaw Mr. Burkle's venture capital investments. Prior to joining The Yucaipa Companies, Mr. Hollod spent four years as an investment banker at Wachovia Securities, where he executed a variety of debt and equity transactions. Mr. Hollod graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Economics, Finance and Philosophy.

Matt Eby - CEO, CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Co - Chief Executive Officer
  • Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Founder and Managing Partner of Seawall Capital
Mr. Eby is the Founder and Managing Partner of Seawall Capital, a private equity firm formed to invest in the consumer and other related sectors. At Seawall Capital, Mr. Eby is responsible for originating, underwriting and monitoring of investments and manages the daily activities of the firm. Prior to the founding of Seawall, Mr. Eby was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tengram Capital Partners. He currently serves as the Chairman of the board of directors of Kent Water Sports, El Cap Holdings and Lime Crime, and as a director of Algenist, Revive, and Cos Bar. In the past he has served as Chairman of Tengram former portfolio companies NEST Fragrances and DevaCurl. Prior to founding Tengram, Mr. Eby was the Chief Investment Officer of JAWS Estates Capital, the private investment office of Barry Sternlicht and the Sternlicht family, where he was responsible for investment and asset allocation decisions and recommendations across a broad spectrum of asset classes and investment strategies. While at JAWS Estates Capital, Mr. Eby led numerous transactions including investments in Palantir Technologies, Field & Stream, Ellen Tracy, Joe's Jeans, Caribbean Joe, and Carlos Falchi. In 2009, in his capacity as Chief Investment Officer of Jaws Estates Capital and on behalf of Starwood Capital Group, he led the initial public offering of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), a mortgage REIT focused on commercial real estate properties. Prior to JAWS, he was an Associate at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Eby currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and director of Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (NYSE: TWND). Mr. Eby received a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Michael Kim

Job Titles:
  • Director
Michael Kim serves on our board of directors. He is the founder of Cendana Capital, an investment management firm with approximately $1.1 billion under management. Cendana Capital invests in very early stage venture capital funds around the world. Michael currently serves on the Limited Partner advisory boards of a number of portfolio funds. Prior to Cendana Capital, he was a partner in a venture capital firm called Rustic Canyon. In March 2004, the Mayor of San Francisco appointed Michael to a 5-year term as a Trustee of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System, a pension fund that invests the retirement assets of San Francisco city employees. He served as Chairman on several board committees, including the Investment Committee, the Personnel Committee and the Finance Committee. Michael served as Vice President and later President of the board in fiscal year 2007 and 2008, respectively. Prior to joining Rustic Canyon, Michael worked in the Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Morgan Stanley in Menlo Park, CA, where he was directly involved with 27 announced transactions worth over $77 billion. Michael received his AB with honors from the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. He has an MS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (1992), and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (1997). Michael is currently on the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Endowment, which is a charitable organization to support the activities of Wikipedia. He is a former Trustee of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where he served on the Investment Committee of its endowment.

Moujan Kazerani

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Ms. Kazerani has been serving as a General Partner of Stibel Investments since co-founding it in 2010, and Bryant Stibel since co-founding it in 2015. Previously, Ms. Kazerani served as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Head of HR and Culture at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation and later served as Leader of Global Corporate Strategy for D&B (NYSE: DNB). Prior to D&B, Ms. Kazerani served as General Counsel & Secretary at TrueCar, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUE) and advised on the company's compensation and audit committees of the board. Ms. Kazerani started her career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where her practice included mergers & acquisitions, reorganizations, corporate securities and intellectual property and other general business law matters. Ms. Kazerani currently serves on the board of RingDNA, an enterprise sales acceleration engine and voice communications platform. She received her JD from UCLA School of Law and has her BA in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley.

Philip Krim - CEO, CFO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
Philip Krim has served as Casper Sleep Inc.'s (NYSE: CSPR) Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its board of directors since October 2013. Since founding the Company in 2013, Mr. Krim has led Casper (NYSE: CSPR) through tremendous growth, growing revenue from $15 million in 2014 to $497 million in 2020 (approximately 79% CAGR), and successfully took the company public in February 2020. Mr. Krim brought an innovative data-driven approach to marketing at Casper which enabled exponential growth and a competitive advantage. He is responsible for leading Casper's expansion into adjacent sleep related product areas and increasing the retail store footprint to over 50+ stores across the US. He also serves as Chairman of Tailwind Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TWND), a special purpose acquisition company which raised $334.2 million in aggregate capital in its initial public offering in September 2020. From March 2021 until March 2022, Mr. Krim served as Chairman of Tailwind Two Acquisition Corp. prior to its business combination with Terran Orbital Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Krim was the Chief Executive Officer of Vocalize Mobile, a mobile search advertising platform for small businesses, from January 2010 until July 2013, and the Chief Executive Officer of The Merrick Group from January 2003 until December 2009. Since 2016, Mr. Krim has also served on the Emerging Leadership Council of the 92nd Street Y. He also serves as a director of the Travis Manion Foundation and as a member of the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation since 2019. Mr. Krim received a B.B.A. in Marketing from Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Spencer Crawley

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Mr. Crawley co-founded firstminute Capital, a venture capital firm with over $200 million AUM and backed by over 80 unicorn founders, in 2016 and continues to serve as its General Partner. Prior to founding firstminute Capital, Mr. Crawley worked in the Munich office and international business development sector of AppDirect, the cloud commerce platform-provider, in 2015. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Crawley was part of the founding team and first hire at DMC Partners, a special opportunities fund spun out of Goldman Sachs. From 2010 to 2012, Mr. Crawley worked in the fixed income, currencies and commodities division at Goldman Sachs in Moscow. Mr. Crawley speaks fluent Russian and sits on the board of Generation Home, a U.K. digital mortgage lender launched in 2020, and Frontier, a U.S.-based platform connecting work-at-home jobseekers with employment opportunities. Mr. Crawley studied history at Exeter College in Oxford from 2006 to 2009, where he also received the Waugh scholarship, and holds a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD.

Tommy Stadlen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - Founder and General Partner at Giant Ventures
Mr. Stadlen is Co-Founder and General Partner at Giant Ventures, a global multi-stage venture capital firm which backs purpose-driven technology founders. Since 2017, Mr. Stadlen has been a Venture Partner at firstminute capital, a seed stage venture capital firm. He is also an advisor to the NYU Stern School of Business Center for Sustainable Business. Mr. Stadlen co-founded Swing Technologies, an imaging technology company, in 2014. In 2017 Swing joined Microsoft, where Mr. Stadlen held product management roles. Prior to Swing, Mr. Stadlen served as a strategy consultant at McKinsey, where he developed global experience across sectors advising leading companies and governments. Mr. Stadlen previously worked for President Obama on his 2008 presidential campaign. Mr. Stadlen has been recognized by the Financial Times as a top 50 Global Ally Executive and is a recipient of Entrepreneur Magazine's "Best Companies in America" Award. Mr. Stadlen is the best-selling co-author of "Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society," written with former BP Chief Executive Officer Lord Browne. Mr. Stadlen is a regular contributor to media outlets, including the New York Times, Financial Times, CNBC, BBC and Bloomberg, where he appears as an expert on technology and sustainability. Mr. Stadlen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and First Class honors from the University of Oxford and holds a Master of Science (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wisdom Lu

Job Titles:
  • Director
Wisdom Lu serves on our board of directors. She is a Founding Partner of Stibel & Co. and Bryant Stibel, specializing in growth equity investments across technology, media, data, sports and wellness. From 2012 to 2015, Ms. Lu was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., which was merged into Dun & Bradstreet in 2015. At Dun & Bradstreet, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Emerging Businesses from 2015 to 2017. From 2008 to 2012, Ms. Lu served as the Chief Financial Officer at Liberman Broadcasting and oversaw Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, as well as Legal and Investor Relations. From 1996 to 2008, Ms. Lu served as Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer at Health Net, Inc. where she oversaw a $3B investment portfolio. Before Health Net, Inc., Ms. Lu served as Treasury Officer, Fixed Income Sales & Trading with National Westminster Bank. Ms. Lu graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Engineering and a minor in Economics. She also received an MBA from New York University. Ms. Lu is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a Professional Engineering license in the state of New York.