Effective May 5, 2023 Winston Meade resigned as Chief Financial Officer of Progress Acquisition Corp. Also effective May 5, 2023, the Board appointed Rick Gallagher as Chief Financial Officer to replace the outgoing officer. Richard Gallagher served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer from inception to December 2022 and was one of the Company's directors until November 2020.

Mr. Gallagher has served as Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Progress Partners from December 2014. He has extensive senior management experience working with various stages of companies. Mr. Gallagher has also been a Partner at Progress Ventures, an early-stage venture investment firm and the venture capital arm of Progress Partners, since December 2014.

Throughout his career, Mr. Gallagher has provided strategic, business, financial and operating leadership to start-up enterprises, Fortune 1000 companies, publicly traded companies, private companies, and high growth venture capital backed entities with an industry emphasis on media and marketing. Mr. Gallagher has completed over a billion dollars worth of acquisitions, from sourcing to integration. Mr. Gallagher has co-founded three start-ups, having raised an aggregate of $35 million for such start-ups and guided them all to liquidity events, including one IPO.

Rick has a B.B.A. in Accounting from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.