Gary Quin
Gary Quin has served as a director since inception, and our Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since April 2025. Upon the trading of our securities on Nasdaq, he will step down from his role as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Quin has over 30 years of corporate and financial experience and has executed approximately $65 billion in M&A and capital market transactions throughout his career.
Mr. Quin is currently the Vice Chairman of CCM, a position he has held since 2024. He is responsible for leading and expanding the firm’s investment banking operations throughout the European, Middle Eastern, and African regions and has extensive connections in the global financial sponsor community. He also has deep sectoral expertise in telecoms, media (including sports and media rights), digital infrastructure, real estate, and financial services (including fintech). His expertise spans a wide array of industries, enabling him to provide strategic counsel and execution support to clients across diverse sectors. Mr. Quin is also currently a board member of Venturerock BV, a Dutch venture capital firm. Mr. Quin’s corporate, banking and advisory relationships and network among financial sponsors and the venture capital community provides us deal sourcing capabilities and access to high-quality acquisition opportunities.
In October 2020, Mr. Quin became the Chief Executive Officer of North Atlantic Acquisition Corp (“NAAC”), which completed a $330 million IPO and raised a total of $383 million. In January 2023, NAAC announced its dissolution and the liquidation and return of assets held in trust to its shareholders. Prior to NAAC, Mr. Quin was Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse Group investment banking division in Europe from 2010 to December 2019, where he advised Europe’s corporates, governments, financial sponsors and family offices across M&A, private and public capital raising. Prior to this, Mr. Quin also served as Senior Advisor to The Blackstone Group from 2011 to 2012, during which time Blackstone acquired Eircom Limited for $3.8 billion.
Prior to working at Credit Suisse, Mr. Quin was Chief Executive Officer of Blackrock Communications Ltd., a telecom-focused, private equity firm. Mr. Quin’s tenure at Blackrock Communications Ltd. was highlighted by a number of notable private and public telecom deals, including the 2009 acquisition of Melita Limited, a Maltese telecommunications and digital infrastructure company. Following the acquisition, he served as a director and shareholder of Melita, where he helped nearly double EBITDA in a three-year span from 2011 to 2014. At the time of acquisition, Melita had one of the leading ARPU in the Maltese market across all products and one of the best performances in Europe of a cable TV player launching mobile telephony. From 2011 to 2014, Melita witnessed a revenue CAGR of 7%, EBITDA grew at a CAGR of 25%, increasing roughly 2.0x, and EBITDA margins grew to 50%. Over the life of his investment in Melita and position as board member, Mr. Quin was critical in transforming the business from a pay-TV-centric cable operator into one of Europe’s first fully integrated quadruple-play telecom operators, with market leading positions in broadband and pay-TV and a fast-growing market share in mobile, as well as one of the broadest digital infrastructure offerings in the region. EQT recently announced the sale of Melita Limited to Goldman Sachs for an estimated $800 million.
Prior to Blackrock Communications Limited, Mr. Quin filled various financial roles with Digicel Group Limited, a global mobile phone network and home entertainment provider. Digicel Group Limited, which received an early investment from The Blackstone Group, was launched in 2001 and grew to have 14 million subscribers as of December 31, 2018 and across 32 countries in 2020. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University College Cork, Ireland and his M.B.A. from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Quin is well-qualified to serve as a director due to his extensive finance and operational experience in a variety of industries and sectors.
