TLGY Acquisition Corporation announced on June 20, 2024, in connection with the Closing of the Securities Transfer Transaction, Vikas Desai was appointed as director of the Company, Enrique Klix was appointed as an independent director of the Company, and Young Cho was appointed as an independent director of the Company. Vikas Desai, age 33, has served as a member of the board of directors and the Chief Executive Officer of Achari Ventures Holdings Corp. I, a special purpose acquisition company, since January 2021.

In early 2018, he founded Achari Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on the cannabis industry. Achari Ventures invests in early-stage plant touching and ancillary businesses and currently has a portfolio of 28 companies within the platform. Since 2018, Mr. Desai has been employed by Achari Ventures, which includes the Welcan Strategic Opportunities Fund LP and Achari Ventures Fund I LP.

From June 2015 to 2017, Mr. Desai was a private equity investor at Oaktree Capital Management, a $100 billion alternative asset manager, where he completed over $2 billion in transactions. Mr. Desai began his career at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking division from July 2013 to June 2015, focusing on real estate mergers and acquisitions and capital markets, where he completed approximately 15 deals representing approximately $15 billion in transaction value. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Finance & Environmental Studies from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Enrique Klix, age 56, has served as the Chief Executive Officer and one of the directors of Integral Acquisition Corporation 1, a special purpose acquisition company, since its inception in February 2021. Integral Acquisition Corporation 1 is a Nasdaq-listed entity in the process of a $300 million merger with Flybondi, a prominent low-cost airline operating in Latin America. Mr. Klix has significant international experience after being based in Australia, Europe, and Latin America for more than 30 years.

Mr. Klix has a track record of successfully leading and advising corporations and governments on turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, operational and financial restructuring, and greenfield start-ups with an aggregate value in excess of $30 billion. Between January 2019 and July 2020, Mr. Klix served as Orora Cartons Australia?s General Manager. Under his leadership, the business went through a successful operational, commercial, and financial turnaround before being sold to Nippon Paper.

Between 2014 and 2016, Mr. Klix served as Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Co.?s recovery and transformation division in Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Klix also served as Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of McColl?s Transport between 2009 and 2014. Under his tenure, McColl?s Transport was recognized as the ?Turnaround of the Year?

in 2012 by the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), before being sold to a private equity consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Mr. Klix was an investor in TrademarkVision, an Australian company that utilized image recognition and artificial intelligence technology for trademark searches and protection. In 2018 TrademarkVision was acquired by Clarivate Analytics, and Mr. Klix was instrumental in supporting the company through the acquisition.

He is an active seed and pre-initial public offering investor in Australia and other geographies, including minority equity stakes in Groundfloor (Last K Ventures Pty. Ltd.) and Miso Robotics. Prior to moving to Australia, Mr. Klix worked for ten years as an investment banker for Salomon Smith Barney and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London focused on servicing telecommunications companies across Europe on mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets transactions.

Mr. Klix also played lead roles in the initial and secondary public offerings of many energy, telecommunications and beverage companies such as Enel S.p.A., Energias de Portugal, S.A., and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas, S.A. Mr. Klix is also a director of Klix II Pty. Ltd. Mr. Klix holds a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina and an MBA from the University of Cambridge in England. We believe that Mr. Klix?s vast experience in senior finance, operational, and consulting roles in publicly listed and private companies makes him well qualified to serve on our Board.

Young Cho, age 48, has a diverse background with over 27 years of banking and startup experience. Currently, Mr. Cho is Founder, CEO and a board member of Blockhouse Digital Holdings LP, an asset management firm that specializes in collateralized lending and yield generating strategies in the crypto markets. From August 2022 to January 2024, Mr. Cho served as chief financial officer of Swirlds Labs, which performs software development.

Prior to Swirlds Labs, Mr. Cho was chief financial officer of Hedera Hashgraph LLC, a proof-of-stake public network powered by hashgraph consensus, where he served from April 2021 to August 2022. While at Hedera, Mr. Cho served as the chief financial officer and a member of the board of directors of Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp. a Nasdaq listed SPAC that acquired HUB Cyber Security for $1.2 billion in 2023, from February 2021 to March 2023.

Prior to Hedera, Mr. Cho was chief investment officer of Abra, a digital consumer wallet where users can buy, sell, and earn rewards on their cryptocurrency holdings, from April 2020 to April 2021. Prior to Abra, Mr. Cho was chief financial officer of Celsius Network from April 2019 to January 2020 and chief financial officer of Alt Lending from January 2018 to April 2019, both companies were involved in the lending of cryptocurrencies. Prior to that, Mr. Cho held several positions in investment banks.

Mr. Cho was an Executive Director at UBS Private Finance from March 2010 to May 2012, responsible for originating loans for M&A, capex, and working capital for medium sized private companies and for Ultra HNW clients. Prior to UBS, Mr. Cho was co-founder and Managing Director at Newtonian Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund focusing on event-driven strategies based in Hong Kong. Prior to Newtonian, Mr. Cho was a Director at Citigroup Global Special Situations Group, where he invested Citigroup?s proprietary capital in the debt and equity of distressed corporates and special situation investments.

Mr. Cho started his career as an analyst at Salomon Brothers Fixed Income Quantitative Research group. Mr. Cho has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell, a Masters in Financial Engineering from Cornell, and a MPA in Economic Policy Management from Columbia.