Appreciate Announces Board of Directors to Include Industry and Public Company Veterans
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Appreciate Announces Board of Directors to Include Industry and Public Company Veterans

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  • Laurie A. Hawkes, industry veteran and Chairman of the Board of Broadstone Net Lease, Inc., expected to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Appreciate

MINNETONKA, Minn., Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RW National Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Appreciate) (“Appreciate” or “the company”), the parent holding company of Renters Warehouse (“Renters Warehouse”), a leading end-to-end Single Family Rental (“SFR”) marketplace and management platform, today announced that its board of directors following the close of the proposed business combination with PropTech Investment Corporation II (NASDAQ: PTIC) (“PropTech II” or “PTIC”), a special purpose acquisition company targeting businesses in the real estate technology industry is expected to include independent members with industry and public company experience. Appreciate currently expects its board of directors to include Laurie A. Hawkes, M. Joseph Beck, Gloria Fu and William Bush upon consummation of the proposed business combination.

Upon consummation of the business combination, Appreciate expects that its board of directors would include the following persons:

  • Laurie A. Hawkes, Chairman of the board of directors of Broadstone Net Lease, Inc. (NYSE: BNL); former co-founder, President & COO of American Residential Properties, Inc. (NYSE: ARPI). It is expected that Ms. Hawkes will serve as Chairman of the Board.

  • Christopher Laurence, CEO of Appreciate; former COO of Cydcor; former CEO, COO and CFO at ThreeSixty Sourcing.

  • M. Joseph Beck, Co-CEO and CFO of PTIC; Managing Partner of Growth Strategies of Hennessy Capital Group; former Co-CEO of PropTech Acquisition Corp. (now Porch (NASDAQ: PRCH)); former Senior Investment Manager of ADIA.

  • Gloria Fu, independent director at PTIC; former Managing Director of JPMorgan Asset Management; former Vice President & sell-side equity research analyst at JPMorgan Securities.

  • Douglas Bergeron, member of the Renters Warehouse board of directors; Managing Director of Hudson Executive Capital; CEO of two special purpose acquisition companies (NASDAQ: HCIIU) (NASDAQ: HIII); former CEO of Verifone. It is expected that Mr. Bergeron will chair the governance and nominating committee.

  • Scott Honour, Chairman of the Renters Warehouse board of directors; Co-founder and Managing Partner of Northern Pacific Group; Chairman of Perception Capital Corp. II (NASDAQ: PCCT); former Senior Managing Director at The Gores Group, a private equity firm.

  • William Bush, CFO of Stem (NYSE: STEM) since leading its public listing via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company; former CFO of Borrego Solar Systems. It is expected that Mr. Bush will chair the audit committee.

  • Marcy Haymaker, Partner at Northern Pacific Group; Director of Perception Capital Partners II (NASDAQ: PCCTU); former Principal for Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp.; former Associate at The Gores Group. It is expected that Ms. Haymaker will chair the compensation committee.