TLGY Acquisition Corporation announced on June 19, 2024, the Company received a notice from Jin-Goon Kim, the interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, of his decision to resign as interim CFO of the Company, effectively immediately. On June 20, 2024, in connection with the Closing of the Securities Transfer Transaction, Merrick Friedman was appointed as the CFO of the Company. Merrick Friedman,age 35, has served as the Chief Investment Officer and Corporate Secretary of Achari Ventures SPAC, since February 2021, and has served as a member of Achari Ventures SPAC?s board of directors since October 2021.

Mr. Friedman joined Achari Ventures (formerly known as Welcan Capital) in June 2019. Since 2019, Mr. Friedman has been employed by Achari Ventures, which includes the Welcan Strategic Opportunities Fund LP and Achari Ventures Fund I LP. Prior to joining Achari Ventures, Mr. Friedman spent over four years at Long Pond Capital, from January 2015 to early 2019, an approximately $3 billion long/short equity hedge fund focused on fundamental and value-oriented investing.

Before joining Long Pond, from 2013 to 2014, Mr. Friedman was at The Raine Group (?Raine?), a global merchant bank. At Raine, he was responsible for providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services and evaluating growth equity investments in the media, entertainment and telecommunications industries. While at Raine, Mr. Friedman completed over $30 billion in transaction value.

Mr. Friedman began his career in 2012 at Deutsche Bank in the Natural Resources Investment Banking group. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.