Mercer Park Opportunities is a newly organized special purpose acquisition corporation incorporated as an exempted company under the laws of the Cayman Islands for the purpose of effecting an acquisition of one or more businesses or assets, by way of a merger, amalgamation, arrangement, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or any other similar business combination involving the Company, (our "qualifying acquisition"). Mercer Park Opportunities intends to focus the search for target businesses that operate in cannabis and/or cannabis-related industries in the United States; however, Mercer Park Opportunities is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of completing our qualifying acquisition. Mercer Park Opportunities intends to focus on acquiring one or more companies with an estimated aggregate enterprise value of up to U.S. $1 billion.

Squares Capital provides M&A advisory services on the buy-side and sell-side for U.S. based cannabis clients.

Radical Consulting works with executive management teams, private equity firms and activist investors to reduce costs, grow revenues, improve margins, fix, turnaround and improve portfolio companies. We work as consultants, advisors, coaches and interim managers to drive initiatives to quick, successful outcomes.

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Columbia Care is a leading Multi State Operating cannabis company. Over the last 3 years we've announced and closed 6+ transactions and more than quadrupled our size culminating in our merger with Cresco Labs to become the largest global cannabis company.

With the FIS acquisition of SunGard I formally moved into the Private Equity group, focusing exclusively on our Private Equity and Venture Capital clients.

As part of the Sungard Consulting Services team dedicated to our Asset Management clients I led large scale projects with our largest and most sophisticated banking, financial services and private equity clients. Improving our clients businesses through short-term cost and expense reductions projects as well as long-term operating model reengineering and large-scale transformations.

Led projects to improve the efficiency and profitability of Citi businesses with a focus on high growth departments. Projects were designed to increase employee productivity, utilization and satisfaction while decreasing costs, reducing hiring needs and building scalability. Through process reengineering, operating model design/standardization, capacity modeling and improved utilization of offshore partners often without large scale investment. Position requires working closely with staff, managers and senior executives to identify problems, find consensus, develop ideas and implement solutions. Projects have included working with the Institutional Clients Group and the: Securities and Funds Services business, Global & Domestic Custody, Citi Hedge Fund Services and Citi Private Equity Services and have spanned multiple locations and regions around the globe.

Provide consulting services to high-growth startups and entrepreneurs. Projects include assisting with or developing: competitor research, product analysis, strategy development, customer/market analysis, financial analysis and due-diligence. Project examples:• Advised startup on project milestones to emerge from stealth-mode after completion. Assisted with product pricing and initial customer segment focus; coached founder for future investment pitches.• Assisted entrepreneur with strategic planning, product differentiation and simplified product sales pitch.• Performed competitor, product, market and customer analysis for web-based startup in NYC. Helped founding team build achievable milestones for customers, clients and advertisers.• Acted as sounding board and “devil’s advocate” for several entrepreneurs looking for funding and in need of feedback on their products and pitches. Helped them to understand what investors look for and how to deliver the message effectively.

Supported project teams through research and analysis of client data, interviews with client personnel, process mapping and financial modeling. Mentored three junior associates. Led several internal projects to enhance corporate strategy and standardize operations as well as several client projects including:• Partnered with senior management to simplify and improve Compensation Practice processes, resulting in improved efficiency, a return to profitability and greater customer satisfaction.• Established a strategic partnership with an HR-assessment vendor to analyze human capital expenditures, productivity and ROI. Performed statistical analysis and financial modeling to quantify and re-allocate talent. Reported directly to executive team.• Led internal initiative to reduce employee training & orientation periods and built an onboarding program to more rapidly and successfully bring new hires into client projects.• Managed regional marketing efforts including the launch of a new brand-awareness campaign and communications framework highlighting company expertise and innovative product lines as a strategy to reach key decisions-makers within targeted industries.• Co-project managed the North American segment of a global divestiture, assisted with strategy for new company and change communications. Supervised team of third party consultants, client personnel and outsourcing company.• Assisted international Oil & Gas company with analysis of costs and performance of shared services, instituted best practices, and metrics to further enhance company and people performance while maintaining expenditures.• Developed new consulting product line focused on companies attempting to simplify processes after global expansion and for those attempting to scale globally. • Presented a lecture at a regional client and prospect conference that shared proven solutions to the problems with talent attraction and retention during an economic downturn.

Led the implementation of a computer management system for JWT Inc.’s New York and Chicago offices, including development of best practices, training and subsequent support documentation. • Project was initiated to cut costs; the new system enabled the outsourced call center to handle additional call volume, decreased in-house work force by one-third and decreased new employee setup time by 50%.• Completed project ahead of schedule and under budget.

Assisted in the purchasing and support for one-quarter of campus computing, project managed the implementation of a $200,000 client management infrastructure system.• Client management system reduced staff commitments by 25% by leveraging automation technology• New configuration process reduced computer setup time from more than 5 hours to 15 minutes.

As a college student, drove company and product expansion to fellow students, responsible for advertising and marketing, event collaborations, product introductions and relationship management.• Efforts resulted in a 20% increase in local sales and greater brand recognition.