Gus is a Managing Director of the SPAC Advisory Partners Team. He is also the Co-CEO and Director at GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corp, which successfully completed a business combination with Bitcoin Depot (BTM) in June 2023. Prior to joining the team, Gus served as the Head of SPAC M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he had a 19+-year investment banking career advising companies and SPACs on all aspects of merger transactions. He has advised on 14 closed SPAC transactions with approximately $20 Billion in negotiated equity since September, 2020. Additionally, he has worked on and overseen transactions with an excess of $150 billion across pipes, corporate separations and other mergers & acquisistions.

Prior to being the head of SPAC M&A, he led the separations practice for Bank of America, focusing on complex corporate transactions, such as spin-offs (including one of the top five largest spin-offs in corporate history), split-offs, reverse Morris trusts, carve-out IPOs and structured private capital raises. Prior to the merger with Bank of America, Gus worked at Merrill Lynch in the corporate finance group, focusing on complex corporate transactions as well as structured investments held on the bank's balance sheet in partnership with Merrill Lynch's Global Principal Investment Group.

Gus graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University with both a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and a Masters of Science degree in international commerce & finance. He sits on the Board of Directors for New York Cares.

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