On February 1, 2023, Richard C. Davis was appointed as a member of the board of directors of Global Partner Acquisition Corp. II. Richard C. Davis is a highly experienced executive with over 25 years of experience in corporate finance, private equity and the space industry.

Mr. Davis has served as the President of the Company and the President of Constellation Acquisition Corp. I (“Constellation”) since January 2023. Mr. Davis has also served as a member of the board of Constellation since February 2023.

Mr. Davis has served as a member of the board of SatixFy Communications Ltd. (“SatixFy”) since October 2022. Prior to that, he served as the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Endurance Acquisition Corp. from April 2021 until the completion of its business combination with SatixFy in October 2022.

Since March 2021, he has served as a managing director of ADP. He is also a founder and managing member of ArgoSat Advisors, a premier global advisory firm focused on the space industry that was founded in 2009. As part of his duties with ArgoSat, Mr. Davis sits on the board of Sky and Space Corporation.

Prior to ArgoSat, Mr. Davis was president, and later interim-CFO, for ProtoStar, a communications satellite operator which raised over $500 million and launched two DTH satellites over Asia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Davis was a private equity investor Principal at VantagePoint Venture Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm with $4 billion of assets under management. His focus was on media/telecom as well as semiconductors/semiconductor capital equipment.

Before that he was a vice president and founding member of the Lehman Brothers Communication Fund which was an $800 million private equity fund focused on communications infrastructure investments.