Constellation Acquisition Corp. I announced appointment of Heiko Faass, Nicole Schepanek, and Bob Stefanowski were appointed as members of the board of directors, Heiko Faass as a Class II director, Nicole Schepanek as a Class II director, and Bob Stefanowski as a Class III director. Heiko Faass is an experienced entrepreneur, advisor and private investor across Europe, United States and Latin America with over 20 years of vast experience in principal investing, turnaround and special situations, capital markets and corporate management.

Since November 2014, Mr. Faass has served and continues to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Ferrer Faass & Co, LLC, a Corporate Advisory firm and Private Equity Fund Manager in the US Commonwealth of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In addition, since November 2015, Mr. Faass has been overseeing strategic management as Chief Executive Officer of Latin Media House, LLC, a leading Latino-publisher of print and online media in Spanish and English with a 50-year history. From 2008 to 2012, he served as Chief Executive Officer of a joint venture to develop a $400 million dollar health luxury resort overseeing all aspects from business planning, capital raising and development planning for a hotel complex, several hundred apartments and villas.

Prior to that, from 2001-2005, Mr. Faass served as the co-founder and manager of a M&A Boutique Firm in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was responsible for deal generation and overseeing all operations. Mr. Faass has held Management and Partner positions across a series of industries, sizes and in Germany and the United States. He has been involved in the origination, review, structuring and execution of transactions from startups to restructuring cases to large real estate and real estate developments with a special focus on technology, manufacturing, commercial real estate and real estate development.

Mr. Faass is a Member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Miami and is fluent in German, English and Spanish. In this role, Ms. Schepanek focused on strategic finance, risk, and capital management, as well as strategy, (digital) innovation, and strategic M&A topics of Tier I insurance and banking groups. Prior to this, Ms. Schepanek established Aureus Advisory in 2010, a consulting boutique that provided both traditional consulting and digital advisory support, which she ran until 2018.

The Tier I insurance and banking groups that Aureus Advisory supported spanned clients located in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. From 2008 to 2010, Ms. Schepanek was the Head of Financial Institutions and Compliance for SPQR Capital, a Private Equity Investor in London, the United Kingdom. Similarly, she was the Vice President of EMEA Financial Institutions Groups, Bank of America in London, the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2008.

Prior to that, Ms. Schepanek was as Principal part of the Risk Management & Insurance team at Oliver Wyman, working in both the Global Insurance Leadership and Global Risk Management teams, from 2005 to 2007 and as part of the Financial Services group from 1998 to 2003. Between Ms. Schepanek's time at Oliver Wyman, Bob Stefanowski has 30 years of experience in finance, business turnarounds, strategy, board governance and regulatory compliance. Mr. Stefanowski is a former Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Analyst and Certified Fraud Examiner.

Mr. Stefanowski's senior roles included Chief Financial Officer of the Investment Banking Division of UBS and an Officer of the General Electric Company. Mr. Stefanowski was previously the President and Chief Executive Officer of DFC Global, a Consumer Lender owned by Lone Star Private Equity. Prior to that, he was the Chief Financial Officer of UBS's Investment Bank headquartered in London, UK.

Mr. Stefanowski previously ran the US Operations of 3i Private Equity, a UK FTSE company. Mr. Stefanowski came to 3i from General Electric where he served as CEO of GE Corporate Finance Europe. Mr. Stefanowski was appointed a Company Officer by the GE Board of Directors in April 2006, becoming one of the top leaders in a company with 300,000 employees.

He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of GE Heller Bank AG (Mainz, Germany), GE Corporate Finance Bank (London, UK) GE Business Finance (Milan, Italy), GE Artesia Bank NV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and a Board Member of GE Facto France (Paris, France) and BPH Bank (Warsaw, Poland). Mr. Stefanowski also held various M&A, Finance and Sales roles in his 14-year career with GE. Previously, he was a senior accountant with Price Waterhouse Coopers in Hartford, CT, a Litigation Consultant in Los Angeles, California and Managing Director of M&A for Brink's Incorporated.

Mr. Stefanowski earned a BS in Accounting from Fairfield University and an MBA from Cornell University.