David Bonanno

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Mr. David W. Bonanno serves as Chief Financial Officer at Bullish Global. He served as Chief Financial Officer & Board Member at Far Peak Acquisition. Until recently (from 2018), Mr. Bonanno served as Chief Financial Officer and was a director of Far Point through the completion of its business combination with Global Blue in August 2020. He also served as Board Member and Advisor at NepFin. From 2008 to 2020, Mr. Bonanno was a Managing Director at Third Point LLC, a New York-based investment manager with $14.8 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2019, which co-sponsored Far Point Acquisition Corp. During his twelve-year tenure at Third Point, Mr. Bonanno was responsible for analyzing and executing public and private investment opportunities across a broad range of industries including Fintech, financial services, telecommunications, energy, and real estate. Additionally, Mr. Bonanno was the primary investment professional responsible for the Third Point Hellenic Recovery Fund L.P., a $750 million long-term investment vehicle exclusively dedicated to illiquid growth investments in Southern Europe. Mr. Bonanno previously served as a director of Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi), Energean PLC (LSE: ENOG), Far Point Acquisition Corp (NYSE: FPAC), Hellenic Bank PCL (CSE: HB), Neptune Financial, Inc. and Tollerton Investments Limited which held a 50.3% stake in Play Communications S.A. prior to its public listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in July 2017. Mr. Bonanno has served as a director or executive officer for companies that have collectively issued over $30 billion in debt, and more than $4 billion in equity through the public and private capital markets, and completed three initial public offerings on the major US and European exchanges. Mr. Bonanno has significant experience as a director and executive officer of regulated financial service companies including businesses supervised in the United States by the FDIC, SEC, FINRA, and CFPB and in Europe by the ECB. Prior to joining Third Point, Mr. Bonanno was a Private Equity Associate at Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. from 2006 to 2008 and an analyst in the Restructuring and Reorganization Advisory Group at Rothschild Inc. from 2004 to 2006. Mr. Bonanno graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2004 with an A.B. in Psychology. He serves as Chairman of the Nominating, Corporate Governance and Conflicts Committee & Member of the Compensation Committee, Corporate Responsibility and Compliance & Board of Directors at Sculptor Capital Management.