James Graf

Non-Executive Director

James Graf has over 35 years of international capital markets, M&A and corporate management experience, including roles as CEO, CFO and/or board director of eight US-listed special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) and as a managing director at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and Merrill Lynch in Singapore. Mr. Graf currently serves as CEO and board director of Graf Global Corp. (NYSE: GRAF) and as Interim CFO of NKGen Biotech, Inc. (OTC: NKGN), was previously a board director of Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR) and also founded an enterprise software company with operations in the US, Malaysia and Ukraine. As a banker and as a SPAC manager, Mr. Graf’s experience includes transactions in the resources sector and in Australia. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.