Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On March 1, 2023, Gregory M. Gentile, Chief Financial Officer of Silver Spike Acquisition Corp II (the "Company"), notified the Company of his intent to resign, effective as of March 7, 2023. Mr. Gentile's decision to resign from the Company was not due to a disagreement on any matter related to the Company's operations, policies or practices. Mr. Gentile is expected to stay on as a consultant to facilitate an orderly transition to his successor.

On March 7, 2023, the board of directors of the Company appointed Dino Colonna to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective as of March 7, 2023. Mr. Colonna is a partner and co-head of credit at Silver Spike Capital, LLC, which is an affiliate of the Company's sponsor.

Since 2001, Mr. Colonna has managed traditional and alternative investment portfolios, and advised corporations and institutional investors across the global capital markets. Prior to joining the Adviser, Mr. Colonna was managing partner at Madison Capital Advisors, a middle-market asset-backed lending and advisory firm focused on emerging growth companies in the cannabis, life sciences and tech sectors. Prior to Madison Capital Advisors, Mr. Colonna spent four years as an investment banker at the top-ranked Equity Capital Markets team at Barclays in London, and six years as a senior research analyst at Forest Investment Management, a global multi-strategy hedge fund. With Barclays, he advised on and structured over $8 billion of equity, derivative and debt transactions, and while at Forest Investment Management, he specialized in credit and equity research, and was part of the portfolio management team managing an over $500 million multi-strategy portfolio.

Mr. Colonna holds a CFA Charter, a B.S.B.A. from the University of Delaware and an international M.B.A. from ESADE Business School (Spain).

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