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Dr. Sharmila Makhija Joins GigCapital5 Board of Directors
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GigCapital5, Inc. (NYSE: GIA, GIA.U, GIA.WS) (the “Company” or “GigCapital5”) today announced that Dr. Sharmila Makhija,
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[{"type":"text","content":" PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nGigCapital5, Inc. (NYSE: GIA, GIA.U, GIA.WS) (the “Company” or “GigCapital5”) today announced that Dr. Sharmila Makhija, MD, MBA, an international expert on gynecologic cancer, has joined the Company’s Board of Directors.\n\nIn addition, Dr. Makhija will serve as Healthcare Advisor to GigCapital5’s affiliate and serial SPAC issuer GigCapital Global (“GigCapital”). In her role as Healthcare Advisor to GigCapital, Dr. Makhija provides her medical and business expertise across its Private-to-Public Equity (PPE)™ initiatives, which includes six public SPACs, four of which have closed transactions – Kaleyra (NYSE: KLR), UpHealth (NYSE: UPH), Lightning eMotors (NYSE: ZEV), and BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI).\n\n“We are thrilled to welcome such a high caliber professional to the GigCapital family,” said Dr. Avi Katz, Founding Managing Partner of GigCapital. “Sharmila will not only serve as a Board of Director member to GigCapital5 as we seek to identify and complete a business combination, but also as a trusted advisor across the GigCapital platform as we identify and vet companies, especially those in the advanced medical equipment and healthcare technology industries.”\n\nDr. Makhija currently serves as Department Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, professor of gynecologic oncology, and the The Chella and Moise Safra Endowed Chair at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System.\n\nDr. Makhija earned her B.A. in chemistry from Cornell University, medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Louisville Hospital and a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She received her executive MBA from Emory’s Goizueta Business School. She has held faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh and named a Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar (NIH K12, WRHR) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she continued as a WRHR scholar, tenured associate professor and received the medical education award and the Argus Teaching Award from the medical school. At Emory University, she was division chief of gynecologic oncology, a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, and the Leach Endowed Chair in obstetric...