JAMES GRAF

As one of the SPAC market pioneers, James has serves as a sponsor or director on six SPACs that have raised over $1.8 billion in aggregate from their IPOs since 2011, with the most recent ones being CEO of Graf Acquisition Corp IV (NYSE: GFOR) and independent director of Catcha Investment Corp (NYSE: CHAA) in 2021. 

Other SPAC-related roles include CEO of Graf Industrial Corp (merged with Velodyne Lidar), non-independent director of Platinum Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Target Logistics Management and RL Signor Holdings), CFO of Double Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Williams Scotsman), CFO of Silver Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Videocon d2h Limited), CFO of Global Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Row 44, Inc and Advanced Inflight Alliance AG). 

From 2008 to 2011 James served as a managing director of pan-Asian investment bank TC Capital Ltd. in Singapore. From 2007 to 2008, James was a financial advisor to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. In 2001, James founded and became CEO of Praedea Solutions Inc., an enterprise software company with operations in the US, Malaysia and Ukraine. Prior to founding Praedea, James held various investment banking roles with Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank/Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Smith Barney, and Morgan Stanley across the US and Asia, including roles as President and Managing Director of Deutsche’s investment banking entities in Hong Kong and managing director of Merrill Lynch in Singapore.