Our Team

Eric Swider, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Eric S. Swider has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board since July 2024. Mr. Swider previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (“DWAC”) from July 2023 until March 2024. He previously served as DWAC’s Interim Chief Executive Officer from March 2023 until July 2023 and as a director since September 2021. Mr. Swider has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of RUBIDEX since January 2020, a start-up company focusing on data security. Mr. Swider founded Renatus Advisors and has been serving as the Managing Partner of Renatus LLC since June 2016. Renatus Advisors works with private clients to resolve complex legal, strategic, and operational matters as well as public clients, providing services related to disaster and economic recovery. From February 2021 to October 2022, Mr. Swider served as a director of Benessere Capital Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. From September 2016 to January 2018, Mr. Swider served as the Managing Director of Great Bay Global where he oversaw the launch of a new business division focused on investing in alternative strategies.

From December 2014 to June 2016, Mr. Swider served as the Managing Director of OHorizons Global, where he oversaw expansion of a new investment team and was responsible for working on a global basis to expand its client base and investment portfolio. From February 2010 to December 2015, Mr. Swider served as the Managing Director of Oceano Beach Resorts, where he was responsible for growing its new property and resort management group. Mr. Swider received his education in Mechanics Engineering and Nuclear Science Studies at U.S. Naval Engineering and Nuclear A Schools, an intensive two-year program studying nuclear physics, heat transfer and fluid flow, advanced mathematical practices and engineering principles. We believe that Mr. Swider is well qualified to serve as a member of our board due to his extensive experience in investment and corporate management and his strong track record in the SPAC space.

Ian Rhodes, Chief Financial Officer

Ian Rhodes has served as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2024. Ian Rhodes has been the Interim Chief Financial Officer of TNF Pharmaceuticals, Inc since February 1, 2021. Mr. Rhodes has been a Director of Brio Financial Group (“Brio”) since January 2021. From March 2020 to December 2020, Mr. Rhodes served as the Interim CFO of Roadway Moving and Storage. From November 2018 to July 2019, he served as Interim CFO of Greyston Bakery and Foundation. From December 2016 to September 2018, Mr. Rhodes served as President, CEO and Director of GlyEco, Inc., and served as CFO of GlyEco, Inc. from February 2016 to December 2016. From May 2014 to January 2016, he served as CFO of Calmare Therapeutics. Mr. Rhodes began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked for 15 years.

Mr. Rhodes received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Seton Hall University and is a licensed CPA in New York.

Alexander E. Cano, Chief Operating Officer

Alexander E. Cano has served as our Chief Operating Officer since July 2024. Mr. Cano previously served as President and Secretary of DWAC from April 2023 to March 2024. He served as the Chief Operating Officer for Benessere Investment Group, an investment company, from June 2021 to March 2023 and was responsible for the daily operations of the firm and contributed to the development of the firm’s corporate strategy, as well as services to multiple special purpose acquisition companies. Prior to that, Mr. Cano held the position of Vice President, Business Development & Sales Strategy for Global Media Fusion, a global media agency, from October 2020 to June 2021, where he was responsible for driving revenue by connecting major consumer brands with globally syndicated television sponsorships. From October 2018 through December 2019, Mr. Cano served as the General Manager for the Home Equity division of Bankrate, a consumer financial services company.

Prior to Bankrate, Mr. Cano was a negotiation consultant with The Gap Partnership, from October 2016 to October 2018. Mr. Cano spent the first half of his career in media companies, such as Sony Pictures Television International from 2003 to 2005, HBO from 2005 to 2008, TiVo from 2008 to 2010 and DIRECTV from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Cano received his B.S.B.A. in Finance from American University in Washington D.C.

Devin G. Nunes, Director

Devin G. Nunes is expected to serve on our board of directors and act as Chairman of the board of directors. Devin G. Nunes, has been TMTG’s Chief Executive Officer and a Director since 2022, previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2022. He was the Republican leader and former Chairman of the HPSCI, a senior Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, and the Republican leader of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. Mr. Nunes was a vital contributor to the 2017 tax system overhaul, authoring a key provision to allow same-year expensing of all business investments for entrepreneurs and businesses. He also championed telemedicine to improve healthcare in underserved, rural areas. In his role on HPSCI, Mr. Nunes spent extensive time overseas working with U.S. military personnel, Central Intelligence Agency officials, and world leaders while promoting freedom and democratic values around the globe. During his time in Congress, many regarded Mr. Nunes as the House of Representatives’ preeminent investigator of government malfeasance and corruption; he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, in 2021.

Mr. Nunes graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he received a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business and a master’s degree in agriculture. He is the author of “Restoring the Republic” and “Countdown to Socialism,” and was an early and prominent critic of big tech censorship. We believe that Mr. Nunes is well qualified to serve as a member and the Chairman of our board due to his leadership expertise and experience in senior corporate and government roles.

Jeffrey Smith, Director

Jeffrey Smith is expected to serve on our board of directors. Mr. Smith has been the founder and Managing Attorney for LawVisory, a law firm serving registered investment advisers, financial institutions, family offices, issuers, investment funds and businesses with their securities, regulatory, compliance, corporate, tax, litigation, arbitration, contracts, digital assets, and merger and acquisition legal needs, since January 2019.Mr. Smith has been an independent director nominee and the nominee chairperson of the audit committee for Globa Terra Acquisition Corporation since April 16, 2025. Mr. Smith has also been since April 2022 the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Rarity Exchange LLC, which owns patents and is an emerging platform, for the fractionalization of real world assets in the form of rarities.

Mr. Smith had been the Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Legal Officer of North Rock Partners, LLC, a wealth advisory firm, from January 2021 to April 2022; Virtue Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm, from January 2019 to January 2021; and Chief Compliance Officer of Griffin Capital Company LLC, an investment and asset management company, from February 2017 to May 2018. Prior to that, he was with Research Affiliates LLC, an investment advisory firm, where he served as Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant General Counsel from August 2013 to February 2017; Director of Compliance of Athene Asset Management LLC, an asset management firm, from July 2012 to August 2013; and Senior Counsel of Legal and Compliance at The Rock Creek Group, an investment fund manager, from July 2010 to July 2012.

Additionally, Mr. Smith served as Investigative Counsel for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission from January 2010 to July 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was a tax attorney for Deloitte from July 1999 to July 2000 and Crowe Horwath from July 2000 to July 2002. Mr. Smith graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Kentucky, where he also earned his J.D. He received his L.L.M., with highest honors, in Securities & Financial Regulation from Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. and holds the following certifications: Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional (FINRA Institute at Wharton); Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional (NRS Education); and Certified in Risk Management (International Institute of Professional Education and Research). We believe that Mr. Smith is well qualified to serve as a member of our board due to his legal, accounting and financial expertise.

Randy Lambert, Director

Randy Lambert is expected to serve on our board of directors. Since August 2024, Mr. Lambert has served as Executive Vice President and Head of Registered Investment Advisor Solutions at Intention.ly, a consulting and marketing agency operating in the financial services sector. Mr. Lambert was the Chief Operations Officer of Orion Advisor Solutions from September 2019 until December 2021 and subsequently served as the Executive Vice President of Tech Operations from December 2021 until July 2024. During this period, Mr. Lambert participated in Orion Advisor Solutions’ acquisitions of TownSquare Capital, LLC in July 2022, Redtail Technology, Inc. in June 2022, and BasisCode Compliance, LLC in October 2021.

From August 1993 to January 2001, Mr. Lambert worked in Operations for Orion Advisor Tech, then as Chief Operating Officer from January 2001 to October 2015, and finally as President from October 2015 to September 2019. Mr. Lambert holds a B.S.B.A in finance from Creighton University and an M.B.A. from Regis University. We believe that Mr. Lambert is well qualified to serve as a member of our board due to his extensive senior corporate and leadership expertise.

Matan Fattal, Director

Matan Fattal is expected to serve on our board of directors. Mr. Fattal has served as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IVIX since February 2020. He has also served as an Insider at YL Ventures since January 2021. From May 2015 to February 2020, Mr. Fattal was Co-Founder of Silverfort, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until May 2017 and subsequently as President until his departure. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Fattal was an Algorithmic Researcher at Intucell.

From December 2009 to December 2010, he was a Software Engineer at Intel Corporation. Mr. Fattal began his career in the Israel Defense Forces, where he served as an Algorithmic Researcher from December 2006 to December 2009. We believe that Mr. Fattal is well qualified to serve as a member of our board due to his extensive senior corporate and leadership experience.