Directors and Management

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Eamonn O’Hare , Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Eamonn has spent over two decades as a board member and senior executive of some of the world’s fastest growing consumer and technology businesses. From 2009 to 2013 he was Chief Financial Officer and main board director of the UK’s leading entertainment and communications business, Virgin Media. Eamonn helped lead the successful transformation of this business and its strategic sale to Liberty Global for US$24 billion, crystallising US$14 billion of incremental shareholder value. From 2005 to 2009, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the UK division of one of the world’s largest retailers, Tesco plc. Before joining Tesco, Eamonn was Chief Financial Officer and main board director of Energis Communications Limited and helped lead the turnaround of this high profile UK telecommunications company. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at PepsiCo Inc. in senior executive roles in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Eamonn’s early career was spent in the aerospace industry with companies that included Rolls Royce and British Aerospace.

Eamonn serves as a non-executive director on the main board of Dialog Semiconductor Plc, a leading edge consumer technology business that provides critical components for the world’s most successful mobile device brands.

Eamonn has a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Queen’s University Belfast and an MBA from the London Business School.

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Robert Samuelson , Founder, Chief Operating Officer

Robert was Executive Director Group Strategy of Virgin Media from 2011 to 2014, during which time he was centrally involved in the sale of the business to Liberty Global and in the post-merger integration process.

Prior to this, Robert was a managing partner at Virgin Group with global responsibility for developing and realising returns from Virgin’s telecommunications and media businesses. Before joining Virgin Group, Robert was a director at Arthur D Little Ltd, where he co-led the European corporate finance practice, providing strategic advice to major European telecommunications operators. His early career was spent with British Aerospace and Royal Ordnance in engineering and production management roles.

Robert studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

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Menno Kremer , Investment Director

Menno was an executive director in the TMT investment banking group at Goldman Sachs, and has more than 12 years of experience in investment banking. During this period, he worked on a broad range of M&A transactions and debt and equity financings for leading European TMT companies.

Menno received a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Howard Kalika , Executive Director

Howard was Director, Strategy at Virgin Media Inc. from October 2008 to October 2013, where he was responsible for the development of Group Strategy including the identification, evaluation and implementation of Group M&A activity. During his time at Virgin Media, he was a member of the core team that implemented the U.S.$24 billion sale to Liberty Global in 2013 and was the finance lead in the sale of VMTV and UKTV. Prior to joining Virgin Media, Mr Kalika was Group Vice President, M&A at TransUnion from March 2006 to September 2008, and previously was CFO of NTL uk (predecessor company to Virgin Media) and held a number of finance and treasury roles in international corporations.

Howard received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Economics from Northwestern University, and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago.

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Chris Biggs , Chief Financial Officer

Chris has spent over 30 years in the accounting, consulting and audit profession, advising clients around the world on financial reporting and deal advisory across a wide range of sectors.

Prior to his appointment as CFO of Zegona in 1 June 2024, Chris worked within leading accounting firms, the World Bank in Washington DC and has run his own successful consultancy firm. His experience spans a wide range of sectors including TMT, banking, investment and asset finance companies. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant (Fellow of the ICAEW) with KPMG and spent 10 years at PwC in an advisory role.

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