dMY Squared is focused on sponsoring the success of the next generation of industry-leading entrepreneurs onto the public markets. In recent years companies intending to go public leveraging technology-created economies of scale with the ability to perform consistently in a volatile global economic environment have become a vibrant ecosystem. dMY Squared possesses a proven operating system for ensuring ‘all-weather,’ rapidly-growing private companies become outstanding public companies.
dMY Squared is democratizing investor access to category-creating companies by accelerating the time horizon and lowering the friction of the IPO process. dMY Squared is focused on partnering with private companies able to command public market capitalizations in the $500 million to $2B valuation range.
The founders of dMY Squared have proven their success through dMY Technology Group, the number one top-performing post-close team in 2021. Most recently, they have taken public the leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions (PL), the world’s first quantum computing company (IonQ), the world’s leading sportsbook data company (Genius Sports Group), and the leading US online casino player (Rush Street Interactive).
DMY’s founders have conducted over 40 IPOs, dozens of public secondary financings, and hundreds of public M&A transactions. Our principals have a unique pedigree as public company CEOs, CFOs, and independent directors. We uniquely understand what it is like to sit in the CEO and CFO chair during the IPO process and have honed a playbook to maximize the success of your public debut. We can’t wait to pioneer with you and aim to define an entirely new category of a public company with dMY Squared.
March 1, 2022
September 2, 2022
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Harry L. You is an experienced executive officer, chief financial officer and board member with extensive experience with technology companies. In September 2016, Mr. You founded GTY Technology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTYH) (“GTY”), a special purpose acquisition company formed for substantially similar purposes as dMY Technology Group. From September 2016 until February 2019 (when GTY consummated its initial business combination), Mr. You served as President, Chief Financial Officer and Director. Following February 2019, he served in various executive capacities: President (February 2019 to May 2019), Chief Financial Officer (February 2019 to August 2019) and director (serving as Vice Chairman since May 2019).
GTY completed its initial public offering in November 2016, generating aggregate gross proceeds of $552 million. In February 2019, GTY completed its initial business combination in which GTY acquired each of Bonfire Interactive Ltd., CityBase, Inc., eCivis Inc., Open Counter Enterprises Inc., Questica Inc. and Questica USCDN Inc., and Sherpa Government Solutions LLC.
GTY is a software as a service (“SaaS”) company that offers a cloud-based suite of solutions for the public sector in North America. GTY serves some of the fastest growing segments in the government technology sector, including procurement, payments, grants management, permitting, and budgeting.
Previous to founding GTY, Mr. You served as Executive Vice President in the office of the chairman of EMC Corporation (formerly NYSE: EMC) (“EMC). Mr. You joined EMC in 2008 to oversee corporate strategy and new business development, which included mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital activity. He was with EMC from 2008 until it was acquired by Dell Technologies in 2016.
Since August 2016, Mr. You serves as a trustee of the U.S. Olympic Committee Foundation, and since January 2019, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO).
Mr. You has served in numerous additional executive positions:
Prior to 2001, Mr. You spent fourteen years on Wall Street, including serving as a managing director in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley, where he headed the Computer and Business Services Group.
Mr. You was ranked #1 Chief Financial Officer by Institutional Investor in the Computer Services & IT Consulting sector in 2004.
Mr. You holds an M.A. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College.
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Niccolo de Masi is an experienced public company chief executive officer and board member with deep expertise in mobile, deep tech, and creating software and hardware ecosystems.
He serves or will serve on the Board of all three dMY Technology SPAC-IPOs post close: Rush Street Interactive, Genius Sports Group, and IonQ.
Over the course of his career, Mr. de Masi has consummated over 25 mergers and acquisitions and has raised approximately $3 billion in equity to support public and private companies he has led. He has held leadership positions in five mobile companies: Glu Mobile, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLUU) (“Glu”), Essential Products, Inc. (“Essential”), Xura, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: MESG) (“Xura”), Hands-On Mobile and Monstermob Group PLC (formerly LSE: MOB) (“Monstermob”). Mr. de Masi became Chief Executive Officer of Glu and of Monstermob before the age of 30.
From December 2014 through its sale to Electronic Arts in 2021 for $2.4B, Mr. de Masi was Chairman of Glu Mobile, a gaming leader. Mr. de Masi was President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2010 to November 2016 and was instrumental in creating many of the app ecosystem’s “firsts,” including developing mobile “freemium” gaming (of which Glu has published approximately one hundred titles), evolving the Android and iOS rewarded advertising ecosystems, and developing some of the world’s first mobile virtual reality (“VR”) and augmented reality (“AR”) experiences. Mr. de Masi additionally helped to create the entire category of celebrity games, launching Kim Kardashian: Hollywood in June 2014—a unique partnership with Kim Kardashian.
Between October 2018 and January 2020 Niccolo served on the Board of Directors of Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI). He also served as President, Products and Solutions and Chief Innovation Officer. Resideo, which was spun-off from Honeywell International, Inc. in October 2018, is a leading global provider of critical comfort, residential thermal solutions and security solutions primarily in residential environments that operate in the IoT space. Resideo reported approximately $5 billion in net revenue in 2020 with approximately 13,000 employees.
Mr. de Masi serves on the Leadership Council of the UCLA Grand Challenges.
Mr. de Masi has served in numerous additional executive positions:
Mr. de Masi received first class B.A. and M.Sci degrees in physics from Cambridge University.
Ms. Luthi currently serves as the executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Assurant, Inc.. After joining Assurant in 2012, Ms. Luthi was the senior vice president of investor relations, marketing and communications from 2014 until 2015. Prior to joining Assurant, Ms. Luthi served as the senior vice president of corporate communication and investor relations at Accretive Health. Before this, Ms. Luthi held senior-level investor relations and communication roles at BearingPoint and Accenture. Ms. Luthi also helped establish the investor relations department at Omnicom Group after serving as a financial analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. Ms. Luthi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Ms. Anderson is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning feature film producer. From 1993 to March 2018, Ms. Anderson was a producer at Pixar Animation Studios, where she produced films such as “Coco,” “Toy Story 3,” “Cars,” “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.”. Following her tenure at Pixar, Ms. Anderson joined Netflix as a producer. Ms. Anderson was elected to the Producers Council Board of the Producers Guild of America in July 2008. Prior to joining Pixar, Ms. Anderson worked with Angel Studios as the executive producer of their commercial division. Ms. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Science from San Diego State University.
Mr. Wert has served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of GTY (Nasdaq: GTYH) since completion of its initial public offering in 2016. From 2014 to 2016, Mr. Wert served as the vice chairman and as a director at Evercore Trust Company, N.A., or Evercore, which he formed and organized and was previously the president and chief executive officer from 2009 to 2014. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Wert served as an executive vice president and senior trust officer of U.S. Trust Company N.A. for over 20 years. Mr. Wert also founded United Mercantile Bank and Trust Company and served as its president and senior trust officer from 1982 until 1987. Mr. Wert is the principal of Fiduciary Resolutions, where he has been a fiduciary expert since June 2016, providing expert witness services and analysis as well as reviewing corporate governance and other processes use by fiduciaries. Mr. Wert holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Finance from California State University at Los Angeles.
Connie Weaver is the Chief Marketing Officer of Equitable and a member of the company’s Operating Committee. In this role, Ms. Weaver oversees and aligns marketing, digital, and insights and analytics efforts to advance business objectives and grow the strategic value and positioning of the company through deeper client engagement and an enhanced end-to- end client experience. She is focused on implementing programs to advance the company’s holistic approach to helping clients reach their goals, allowing more Americans to face the future with confidence. Since joining the company in 2019, Ms. Weaver has played a key role in the launch and positioning of the Equitable brand in the marketplace.
Prior to joining Equitable, Ms. Weaver served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at TIAA, where she oversaw the transformation of the company’s marketing strategy, digital experience, and brand. Previously, she was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at The Hartford, and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of AT&T. She has also led award- winning organizations in investor relations and marketing as an executive at Microsoft, AT&T, McGraw-Hill, BearingPoint, and MCI.
Ms. Weaver has diverse board and advisory experience, having served on the boards of several corporate and non-profit entities. She currently serves on the boards of Make-A-Wish America, National Council on Aging, National Endowment for Financial Education, and Connecticut Public Media, among others, and formerly as a director of Waddell & Reed.
Ms. Weaver holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Textile Science and Marketing from the University of Maryland and has completed the executive financial management program at Stanford University, the executive marketing management program at Columbia University, and the global strategic planning program at IMEDE (Switzerland).