Hudson Executive Investment Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company that raised $414 million in a June 2020 initial public offering.
The company was co-founded by Hudson Executive Capital LP, a value-oriented investment firm with a focus on small and mid-cap companies, Douglas L. Braunstein, its founder and managing partner, and Douglas G. Bergeron, its managing partner.
On January 13, 2021 Hudson Executive Investment Corp. announced that it had entered into a definitive merger agreement with Talkspace, a leading digital and virtual behavioral healthcare company.
The transaction closed in June 2021 and provided Talkspace with $250 of growth capital. As of June 23, 2021, Talkspace shares are trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker “TALK”. Talkspace is the only publicly-traded pure-play virtual behavioral health company. For more information, please visit the company's website here.
Prior to founding Hudson Executive Capital, Douglas L. Braunstein was the Chief Financial Officer of JPMorgan Chase from 2010 to 2012 and its Vice Chairman from 2013 to 2015.
As a leading investment banker and trusted corporate advisor, Mr. Braunstein has been instrumental in originating, structuring, negotiating and advising on many significant transactions across the Company's sectors of focus.
Prior to his role as CFO of JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Braunstein served in several leadership positions at the bank, including Head of Investment Banking in the Americas, Head of Global M&A and Global Industry Coverage and Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, as well as serving on the Investment Bank Management Committee for over ten years.
Mr. Bergeron's expertise in the financial services sector, FinTech in particular, and the technology industry spans over 35 years, including 12 years as the Chief Executive Officer of Verifone Systems, Inc., a provider of technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale.
As CEO, he led Verifone from sales of under $300 million in 2002 to over $2 billion and over 5,000 employees worldwide in 2013 and an enterprise value in excess of $4 billion.
Prior to leading Verifone, Mr. Bergeron was CEO of SunGard Brokerage Systems Group and President of SunGard Futures Systems, which provided software and services to a variety of trading institutions, banks, futures brokerages, derivatives exchanges and clearing and settlement services providers.
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