Effective May 5, 2023, George Barrios resigned as Co-Executive Officers of Progress Acquisition Corp. (the Company). Also effective May 5, 2023, the Board appointed David Arslanian as Chief Executive Officer to replace the outgoing officer.

David Arslanian has served as the Company's President since inception and the Company's Chief Executive Officer from September 2021 to December 2022. He joined Progress Partners IB Inc. (“Progress Partners”), an affiliate of Progress Capital I LLC, the Company's sponsor, in January 2018 as managing director. He has extensive experience in tech, finance, and strategic partnerships.

Prior to this, Mr. Arslanian held many C-level operating roles with various emerging tech companies in financial services and marketing. Most recently, he was vice president of corporate development and strategic partnerships at Telaria Inc., a software platform that optimizes yield for leading video publishers, which merged with The Rubicon Project Inc. in April 2020 Mr. Arslanian is board member at Inanovate Inc. Mr. Arslanian was, from August 2010 to February 2011, Chief Operating Officer of Rovion Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 30, 2011. He is also a board member at innRoad, a software-as-a-service hotel management software solution.

He received his MBA in Global Strategic Management from Babson College in 2006, and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Boston.