OUR TEAM
AN EXCEPTIONAL, INTERNATIONAL TEAM WITH PROVEN PERFORMANCE AND INVESTMENT TRACK RECORDS.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Hubertus Mühlhäuser
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Mühlhäuser has a successful track record of more than 20 years as an operator in the global industrials sector, having served as CEO, senior executive or Chairman and Board Member at multiple public and private companies.
He has a highly entrepreneurial mindset with a global perspective, having lived and worked in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Mühlhäuser was CEO & Executive Director of CNH Industrial NV (NYSE:CNHI), former President & CEO of Welbilt Inc. (NYSE:WBT) and former Sr. Vice President & General Manager at AGCO Corp. (NYSE:AGCO). He started his career at Arthur D. Little.
Mr. Mühlhäuser received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the European Business School, University for Business and Law
Nina Murphy
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Murphy holds the role of Chief Financial Officer at Pontem Corp. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer of QVIDTVM, the main sponsor of Pontem Corp.
Ms. Murphy is an accomplished finance and operations executive having helped launch and manage several hedge funds and alternative investment products over a career of more than 20 years. She was an Executive Director at MSIM and held CFO & COO positions at KEC ventures and AT Global Capital. Ms. Murphy also ran Investor Services for Christofferson, Robb and Company and held executive roles at Tribeca Global Management and Deutsche Bank.
Ms. Murphy received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Finance from Brooklyn College.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Peter Grosch
Chair of the Governance & Nomination Committee and Board Member
Mr. Grosch´s impressive career, spans over 35 years of general management experience in numerous senior executive roles in the engineering, automotive and aerospace sectors in Europe and the US.
He is currently Chairman of Innio AG and a senior advisor to several private equity firms
His former roles include Chairman of Kinolt S.A., Deputy Chairman of SLM Solutions AG, President & CEO of Diehl Aerospace and Defense Systems. He was also Executive Vice President of DaimlerChrysler´s Off-Highway division and Managing Director and Board Member of MTU Friedrichshafen (today Rolls Royce Power Systems) and Executive Chairman of MWM GmbH.
Mr. Grosch received a degree in Automotive and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Ulm as Dipl. Ing.
As Member of our Board, Mr. Grosch will chair the Governance & Nomination Committee.
Robert (Bob) Bohn
Board Member
Mr. Bohn is a highly accomplished business leader, having served as Chairman & CEO and Sr. Executive of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK) for two decades and as senior Executive at Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) for more than a decade. He has lived and worked in the US and in Europe.
Mr. Bohn was a Member of the Board of Parker-Hannifin (NYSE:PH), and is cur-rently a Member of the Boards of The Manitowoc Company (NYSE:MTW) and a Board Member of Carlisle Companies (NYSE:CSL).
Mr. Bohn will serve as Advisory Board Member for Pontem.
Luciano Mozzato
Chair of the Compensation Committee and Board Member
Mr. Mozzato has extensive senior executive experience in the industrials space across multiple operational verticals and geographies including Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
Previously he was Executive Vice President of the Power Services Applied Technology Solutions group at Siemens.
Prior to its acquisition in 2017 by Siemens, he was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Services at Dresser-Rand. Mr. Mozzato was also CEO of Otis Italy, Vice President of Otis Latin America and Vice President of Global Supply Chain and Logistics Worldwide of Otis Elevators.
Mr. Mozzato received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hartford.
As a Member of our Board, Mr. Mozzato will chair the Compensation Committee.
James (Jim) Gentilcore
Chair of the Audit Committee
and Board Member
Mr. Gentilcore’s 40-year career includes successful accomplishments in several markets including technology, industrials and chemicals.
Mr. Gentilcore recently retired as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of PQ Corporation (NYSE:PQG), after leading its successful IPO in 2017. He has served as the CEO of two other public companies, and on the board of directors of six public companies, including his current service on the board of Entegris Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTG).
Jim has also worked with private equity investors for over ten years, as both a portfolio CEO as well as executive advisor.
Mr. Gentilcore will serve as Advisory Board Member.
David Hagen
Board Member
Mr. Hagen is the Director of Business Development at QVIDTVM responsible for investor relations, marketing, and partnerships. Prior to QVIDTVM, Mr. Hagen was head of Institutional Equity Sales at Stephens Inc. He has over 20 years of equity capital markets experience helping companies raise capital. He specialized in working with mutual funds, hedge funds and investment partnerships, helping them deliver returns to investors. Prior to Stephens, Mr. Hagen spent 9 years at William Blair as a partner in equity sales helping the firm establish its New York office. He also worked for Thomas Weisel Partners and Lehman Brothers Inc. in New York and San Francisco.
Mr. Hagen received a B.S. in Political Science from Santa Clara University.
ADVISORY BOARD
Chris Lynch
Advisory Board Member
Mr. Lynch is an industry luminary with a proven track record of driving accelerated momentum and disruption. Over the past two decades, Mr. Lynch has created markets in virtualization and taking Big Data analytics to the enterprise.
Mr. Lynch is currently Executive Chairman & CEO of AtScale, the industry leader in data federation and cloud transformation, as well as Board Member of DataRobot.
He was previously a board member and Co-Founder of Accomplice. He held various leadership roles at Vertica (acquired by HP), Acopia Networks (acquired by F5 Networks) and Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco).
Mr. Lynch received a bachelor’s degree in business management from Suffolk University, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University, and an honorary doctor of commercial science degree from Bentley University
Mr. Lynch will serve as Advisory Board Member.
Jens-Thomas Pietralla
Advisory Board Member
Mr. Pietralla has an impressive career with industrial as well as consulting executive positions in both Europe and North America.
He is currently Global Head of the Industrial and Natural Resources sector of Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., one of the leading global executive search companies. He also he serves on the Board of Reimann Investors, the family office of members of the Reimann family.
Previously, Mr. Pietralla served as President & CEO of Navico Holding, a global market leader in marine electronics and as Chief Marketing Officer of Siemens AG (XETRA:SIE). He has also served as Chairman of Torqeedo GmbH and Ocivan Invest AS. He started his career at McKinsey & Company.
He received a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Ulm in Germany
Mr. Pietralla will serve as Advisory Board Member.
Wolfgang Deml
Advisory Board Member
Mr. Deml's successful career has spanned a number of executive roles in the industrials space.
For 20 years, until 2008, he was the CEO and President of Baywa Corporation specializing in the agriculture business, building wholesale and retail, oil, renewable energy, farm equipment, with 17,000 employees and revenues around 17 billion euros.
His former roles include CEO of Union Investment in Frankfurt and Management Consultant with Roland Berger.
Mr. Deml has been a member of the supervisory boards of MAN AG, Rentenbank Frankfurt, DZ Bank, and VK Mühlen AG and a member of the Advisory Board of Dresdner Bank and Allianz AG.
He has been member of the supervisory board of AGCO for 19 years and the non-executive chairman of the supervisory board of Hauck & Aufhäuser AG since 2010.
IN MEMORIAM
Richard (Rick) Caron
Former Advisory Board Member
Rick Caron was providing his support to Pontem´s Advisory Board until his sudden passing on September 2nd 2021. Next to his role at Pontem, he was an Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Welbilt (NYSE:WBT). Previously, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Enodis prior to its acquisition by Manitowoc in 2008 and the subsequent rebranding to Welbilt. Prior to Welbilt, Manitowoc and Enodis, Rick served as CEO for the Moseley Corporation in Franklin, Massachusetts. He also served as President & CEO of TurboChef Inc. in Dallas, Texas. Prior to that, Rick was Managing Director of the consumer products practice at Arthur D. Little (ADL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
While we mourn Rick´s passing and will miss him dearly, we also honor his outstanding contributions to Pontem as well as various other companies during his lifetime.
