On August 11, 2023, Portage Fintech Acquisition Corporation appointed John P. Stanfield to serve as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Stanfield, age 42, has significant experience with U.S. GAAP, finance, operations, and taxation demonstrated over several years and several billion dollars of enterprise value in the private equity and alternative asset industry. He has been a Certified Public Accountant since 2006, and has served as senior principal with Stanfield & Associates, a public accounting firm specializing in the private equity industry and international taxation, since 2011.

Mr. Stanfield has also served as Chief Executive Officer at Aequum Capital, LLC, a tech-enabled commercial lender, since August 2023 and Chief Financial Officer at Welsbach Technology Metals Acquisition Corp. since December 2021. He held the role of Co-President at Aequum from September 2021 to August 2023.

Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Lorem LLC, a provider of accounting services for special purpose acquisition companies, from May 2021 to September 2022, and as Chief Financial Officer at LQD Business Finance, a national fintech startup, from 2018 to September 2020. Mr. Stanfield holds a B.A. and an M.S.T. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. A from DePaul University. Corey Campbell ceased to serve as the Company?s Chief Financial Officer effective as of Mr. Stanfield?s appointment.