Joseph W. Pooler Jr.
Joseph W. Pooler, Jr., has served as Chief Financial Officer upon the trading of our securities on Nasdaq. With over 30 years of experience in corporate finance, Mr. Pooler has developed deep expertise through his leadership in executive roles across publicly traded companies. Mr. Pooler has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Cohen & Company Inc., a financial services firm specializing in asset management, capital markets, and fixed income trading, since December 2009. He has also served as Cohen & Company, LLC’s Chief Financial Officer since November 2007 and as its Chief Administrative Officer since May 2007.
Previously, in March 2018, Mr. Pooler served as the Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer of Insurance Acquisition Corp. (“Insurance SPAC”), which completed a $151 million initial public offering in March 2019. No public shares were redeemed in connection with Insurance SPAC’s extensions and the consummation of its business combination. In October 2020 Insurance SPAC merged with Shift Technologies, Inc. (“Shift”), an end-to-end ecommerce platform for buying and selling used cars, resulting Shift’s common stock traded on Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “SFT.” He also served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of INSU Acquisition Corp. II (“Insurance SPAC II”), which completed a $230 million initial public offering in September 2020. Insurance SPAC II experienced aggregate redemptions of 8,372 public shares in connection with various extensions and the consummation of its business combination.
In February 2021, Insurance SPAC II merged with Metromile, Inc. (“Metromile”), a digital insurance platform and pay-per-mile auto insurer, resulting Metromile’s Class A common stock and warrants traded on Nasdaq under the symbols “MILE” and “MILEW” respectively.
Mr. Pooler also served as the Chief Financial Officer of INSU Acquisition Corp. III, a SPAC which completed a $250 million initial public offering in December 2020 and was subsequently liquidated. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer of FTAC Parnassus Acquisition Corp., which completed a $250 million initial public offering in March 2021 and was subsequently liquidated. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of FTAC Zeus Acquisition Corp., which completed a $402.5 million initial public offering in November 2021 and was subsequently liquidated. From July 2006 to November 2007, Mr. Pooler served as Senior Vice President of Finance of Cohen & Company, LLC. Additionally, from November 2007 to March 2009, Mr. Pooler served as Chief Financial Officer of Muni Funding Company of America, LLC, a Cohen & Company, Inc. managed company investing in middle-market non-profit organizations.
Prior to joining Cohen & Company, LLC, Mr. Pooler held key management positions from 1999 through 2005 at Pegasus Communications Corporation (now known as The Pegasus Companies, Inc. (OTC: PEGX)), which operated in the direct broadcast satellite television and broadcast television station segments. While at Pegasus, Mr. Pooler held various positions including Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, and Senior Vice President of Finance. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Pooler held various management positions with MEDIQ, Incorporated, which provides rental and sales of critical care medical equipment to healthcare providers across the U.S., including Corporate Controller, Director of Operations, and Director of Sales Support.
Mr. Pooler holds an M.B.A. from Drexel University, a B.A. from Ursinus College, and was previously a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (license lapsed).
