Opes Acquisition Corp Announces Management Changes
April 14, 2020 at 11:03 am
Share
On April 13, 2020, the remaining members of the Board of Directors of Opes Acquisition Corp. appointed James S. Anderson, David M. Brain, and Paul H. Rapisarda to its Board of Directors. James S. Anderson was appointed as a Class 1 director, David M. Brain as a Class 3 director, and Paul H. Rapisarda as a Class 2 director. The Board also appointed Mr. Brain to be the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Anderson and Mr. Rapisarda were also appointed to the audit committee, compensation committee and nominating committee of the Board of Directors. Ophir Sternberg, currently a director of the Company, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. James Anderson has over 40 years of entrepreneurial business experience with a major focus in real estate and business development including internationally. He has either been a sole founder or founding partner in several commercial ventures. David Brain has served as CEO of Enfinite Capital, LLC since 2017, an investment and development firm which he co-founded in late 2017. The firm is focused on renewable energy and infrastructure projects and has an alliance with Black & Veatch. Paul Rapisarda has served as Chief Financial Officer at Lionheart Capital since 2019 and Out of the Box Ventures since 2019. Mr. Rapisarda is an experienced public company C-suite executive and investment banking professional with more than 25 years working in and for a variety of public and private companies.
BurgerFi International, Inc. is a multi-brand restaurant company. The Company develops, markets, and acquires fast-casual and premium-casual dining restaurant concepts around the world, including corporate-owned stores and franchises. The Company's segments include BurgerFi and Anthonyâs. BurgerFi is a fast-casual better burger concept with franchised and corporate-owned restaurants as offering burgers, hot dogs, crispy chicken, frozen custard, hand-cut fries, shakes, beer, wine and more. Anthonyâs is a pizza and wing brand concept centered around a coal fired oven, and its menu offers pizza, coal fired chicken wings, homemade meatballs, and a variety of handcrafted sandwiches and salads. The pizzas are prepared using a coal fired oven to quickly seal in natural flavors while creating a lightly charred crust. It provides a differentiated offering among its casual dining peers driven by its coal fired oven, which enables the use of fresh, ingredients with quicker ticket times.
BURGERFI INTERNATIONAL, INC. 
