Blackhawk Growth Corp. announced the resignations of Fred Pels as Director and Marc Lowenstein as non-executive director. The company would also like to announce the new appointments of Anoosh Manzoori as non-executive director and chairman, Anthony Habberfield as Non-Executive Director and John Dinan as Non-Executive Director.

Anoosh has extensive equity capital markets and M&A experience having completed dozens of transactions involving new listings and private placements in Australia, Canada and United States. Anthony is an experienced investor and has a senior executive role at the largest insurance company in Australia, where he is responsible for the execution of its strategy and transformation program. Anoosh has extensive investment banking experience across many verticals.

His transactional experience includes equity capital markets, M&A, and private placements. With over 25 years of transactional experience, he has advised several cross-border transactions between Australia and Canada and USA. He has completed several private placements for many public companies, completed private to public M&A between Australia and Canada and the United States, and has also taken several companies public in North America.

Anoosh also has extensive public company and board experience and serves as a director of 5 public companies. Prior to starting his investment banking career, he was awarded the Entrepreneurial Scholarship sponsored by Ernst &Young, The American Chamber of Commerce and Playford Capital before founding one of Australias largest cloud hosting companies reaching over 75,000 customers before selling the company to the largest listed software company in Australia, MYOB Limited in 2008. Anoosh holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Postgraduate Degree of Business Enterprise and is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Anthony brings 25+ years of international experience in developing organisational strategy and executing large transformations in the Financial Services sector across the Asia Pacific region. He brings extensive capability in Strategy development, Project management, Procurement, Commercial management and driving simplification of complex businesses via emerging technology. Anthony holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and an MBA from Deakin University.

He is currently a Director on the Strategic Advisory Board for Latrobe Business School. Mr. Dinan has held positions as CFO and Company Secretary of listed and unlisted Financial services entities as well as Infrastructure investment groups. He has also been the chair of Australias largest superannuation trustee company and also been the Chief risk officer of a major listed trustee company.

In this capacity, he ran the Risk and compliance committees and implemented the frameworks that ensured compliance with the many ASIC and APRA Licenses. Mr. Dinan has also been a member of a number of consortiums that have bided for public offered infrastructure assets, typically heading up the finance and tax streams of the consortiums. A Fellow of the Australian CPAs, Mr. Dinan resides in Melbourne and is currently the CFO of a private family office as well as the company secretary of a number of entities listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange.