On October 12, 2022, David Gladstone, Terry L. Brubaker, Paul W. Adelgren, Michela A. English, John H. Outland, Anthony W. Parker, and Walter H. Wilkinson, Jr. tendered their resignations as officers and directors of the Gladstone Acquisition Corporation, Michael Malesardi, Michael LiCalsi, Bill Frisbie and Bill Reiman resigned as officers of the Company, and Geoff Mullins, Wayne Bale, and John Bartrum were appointed as members of the board of directors of the Company. Finally, Rick Iler was appointed as Secretary of the Company. J.Richard (Rick) Iler has spent his professional career in the capital markets working in positions as corporate finance, chief financial officer of both public and private companies, and institutional corporate bond salesman with leading wall street firms, e.g., BearStearns, Prudential, Kidder Peabody and Smith Barney.

His operational experience began working for an heir, (Shelton Ranch Corporation) of the legendary King Ranch working in budgeting, cash management and financing activities.? He worked with prominent joint ventures administering operating results with such notable companies as Shell, Prudential, Gulf & Western, and the Pritzker family. He has overseen financial reporting to regulatory agencies for numerous microcap public companies as chief financial officer where his duties evolved around facilitating various financings.

His treasury experience with SavingsBank, a Texas savings bank, entailed chairing the asset/liability and investment committees, where he managed a several hundred million dollar mortgage bond arbitrage guiding it through a period of an inverted yield curve returning an annualized 25% internal rate of return. His experience entailed substantial hedging experience with exchanged traded derivatives. Throughout his career, he has been part of various investment classes of stock, debt and off balance sheet instruments in the aggregate eclipsing several hundred million in equities and debt.

He has been part of high net worth, venture capital firms and leading investment banking concerns. He has a B.S. from Grand Valley State University and attended South Texas College of Law completing nearly 2 of the 3 year JD program. From 2018 to present, he has been self-employed as an independent consultant for various public companies.

Geoffrey Mullins (48) is a seasoned government relations and communications professional with nearly three decades of policy, issue advocacy, and campaign experience at both the federal and state level. After several years on Capitol Hill as a Congressional staff member, he worked in the business community for national and state-level trade associations and grassroots organizations. In the private sector, Geoff worked for a political communications and technology company providing strategic public affairs support to Fortune 500 and national trade association clients.

In the year 2000, he had the pleasure of helping plan and successfully implement the Republican National Convention held in Philadelphia. For the last fifteen years, he has combined his professional experience with his love of the outdoors through work with NGOs advocating for fish and wildlife habitat conservation, clean water protections, Everglades restoration, fisheries management, Farm Bill conservation, public lands issues, and sportsmen's access. Geoff is an avid sportsman, fly fisherman, and boater and serves on the Board of Directors of Fly Fishers International.

He and his wife and son live in Washington, DC and south Florida. From 2007 to 2018, he was employed by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as its Chief Operating and Communications Officer. From 2019 to present, he was employed by The Everglades Foundation as its Chief Programs Officer.

Wayne E. Bale (60), has over 30 years' experience leading projects for the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Government with extensive Federal contracting experience in all phases of project management from inception to acquisition through implementation. A career leader, he has managed teams facilitating customer interaction, proposal development, and operation execution, and served as Chief of Global Communications for the Air National Guard (ANG) Bureau in Washington DC. In this role he was responsible for the integration of ANG fixed and tactical communications systems and units.

He led an integrated team of military, government civilian, and contractor engineers responsible for Base Communications field support at 88 flying Wings, 8 Combat Communications Groups, 23 Combat Communications Squadrons and 19 Engineering Installations Squadrons with a total life cycle value of over $1 billion in communications assets. As Commander of the 241st Engineering Installation Squadron, he led a worldwide engineering and installation mission. He is responsible for major system upgrades for numerous military installations.

He is credited with leading his team to an Outstanding rating on a critical Air Force compliance inspection; a first for an engineering installation unit. A master strategist, Wayne developed operational plans, requirements, and logistical support for over 15,000 ANG personnel. He led the implementation of the Joint Incident Site Communication (JISC) system, and wireless networks.

Additionally, he led the acquisition strategy development for the “One Air Force, One Network (1AF1N)” program. Wayne is a graduate of Western Illinois University with a degree in Business Administration. From 2015 to 2019, he was employed by Rivada Networks as its VP of Federal Services.

From November 2019 to April 2021, he was employed by Kizano Corp. as its Executive Vice President of Business Development. From April 2021 to present, he has been working as an Independent Consultant in Federal Markets and Various sales capacities.