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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.
Effective August 24, 2021, the Board of Directors of Astrea Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Astrea”), appointed Juan Santodomingo Diaz as a Class B director and the chairman of Astrea’s audit committee. Mr. Santodomingo was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the unexpected passing away of Boris Salas von Weltzien, which occurred on August 9, 2021.
Mr. Santodomingo, 45 years old, is an executive, entrepreneur, and investor with over twenty years of corporate finance and asset management experience, having advised in corporate transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $20 billion. Since August 2020, Mr. Santodomingo has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Kendo Corporation, a FinTech and EdTech company that Mr. Santodomingo founded. Prior to this venture, Mr. Santodomingo served from August 2017 to December 2019 as Chief Executive Officer of FIT Big Data, a leading fintech company in Latin America that he co-founded. He has also served as an investment committee member of FIT Gestora, the investment fund manager of FIT Big Data, from January 2018 to December 2019. From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Santodomingo was a Partner of Deloitte and head of Corporate Finance for the Latin America region (excluded Brazil and Mexico). Prior to this, he held several senior investment banking positions such as Director of GBS Finance (former partner of Bear Sterns), a leading independent European investment bank. Mr. Santodomingo received a BBA from Wales University and Caixanova Business School. He also received two Master’s degrees and other postgraduate programs in Management and Finance in several business schools such as IESE, Instituto de Empresa and IEB (Associated to Wharton and LSE).
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: August 24, 2021 | ASTREA ACQUISITION CORP. | |
| By: | /s/ Felipe Gonzalez | |
| Felipe Gonzalez | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
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