Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
Effective December 2, 2022, the board of directors (the "Board") of Marblegate
Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") increased the size of the Board from six
directors to seven directors and appointed Patrick J. Bartels, Jr. as a member
of the Board, to fill the vacancy created by the increase in size of the Board.
Mr. Bartels will serve as a Class III director. The Board also determined that
Mr. Bartels is an independent director as defined in the listing standards of
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and appointed him as a member of a special committee
of the Board.
Mr. Bartels, age 47, has served as the Managing Member of Redan Advisors LLC, a
firm that provides fiduciary services, including board of director
representation and strategic planning advisory services for domestic and
international public and private business entities, since December 2018. His
professional experience includes investing in complex financial restructurings
and process-intensive situations in North America, Asia and Europe in a broad
universe of industries. Mr. Bartels has served as a director on numerous public
and private boards of directors. Mr. Bartels has served on the board of
directors of Arch Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ARCH) since October 2016. He serves on
or previously served on the boards of WCI Communities, Inc. (from August 2009 to
February 2017), Grizzly Energy, LLC (f/k/a Vanguard Natural Resources, Inc.)
(since February 2019), Parker Drilling Company (since March 2019), B. Riley
Principal Merger Corp. (from April 2019 to February 2020), Hexion Inc. (since
July 2019), Monitronics International, Inc. (since July 2019), Centric Brands
Inc. (from March 2020 to October 2020), B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. II (from
May 2020 to November 2020), Libbey Inc. (since May 2020) and Noble Corporation
(from February 2021 to October 2022), and on several private company boards.
From April 2002 to November 2018, Mr. Bartels served as a Managing Principal at
Monarch Alternative Capital LP, a private investment firm that focused primarily
on event-driven credit opportunities. From February 2000 to April 2002, he
served as research analyst for high yield investments at INVESCO, where he
analyzed primary and secondary debt offerings of companies in various
industries. Mr. Bartels began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he
was a Certified Public Accountant. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation. Mr. Bartels received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting with a
concentration in Finance from Bucknell University. Mr. Bartels brings to our
Board extensive accounting, financial and investment experience, as well as
experience as a director for multiple companies including several that have
undertaken bankruptcy and restructuring processes.
In connection with Mr. Bartels' appointment as a member of a special committee
of the Board, he will be entitled to cash compensation of fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) per month for his service, and he has entered into an indemnification
agreement and letter agreements with the Company in connection with his
appointment to the Board, which agreements are in substantially the same form as
those entered into with the executive officers and other directors of the
Company. Neither Mr. Bartels nor any member of his immediate family has or had a
direct or indirect interest in any transaction in which the Company or any of
its subsidiaries is or was a participant that would be required to be disclosed
under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
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