Item 5.02. Departure of Directors
or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On August 17, 2021, Mr.
Evan Sotiriou informed Catalyst Partners Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) that he would be resigning from his position as
Chief Operating Officer of the Company, retroactively effective as of August 7, 2021. Mr. Sotiriou has also resigned from General Catalyst
Partners, LLC, an affiliate of CAT Sponsor LLC, the Company’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), to pursue other opportunities.
Mr. Sotiriou’s resignation was not related to any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s accounting,
strategy, leadership, operations, policies or practices (financial or otherwise).
On
August 19, 2021, the Company’s board of directors appointed Mr. Paul Fielding as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer,
effective as of such date.
Mr.
Fielding, 34, joined General Catalyst Partners, LLC (“General Catalyst”), an affiliate of the Sponsor, in March 2021.
Prior to joining General Catalyst in March 2021, Mr. Fielding served as Managing Partner at Grenet Partners from June 2019 until
December 2020. Before Joining Grenet Partners, Mr. Fielding served as a Principal at General Catalyst from June 2018 until June
2019. Mr. Fielding served as Vice President of Products, Pricing, and Risk at SoFi from May 2013 until March 2018. Mr. Fielding was
responsible for financial product design, loan features, and daily pricing for SoFi’s lending businesses. Mr. Fielding also led
Capital Markets for SoFi, launching its financing platform where he and his team raised over $12B through securitizations, loan
sales, and other private transactions and oversaw $3B+ in borrowings. Prior to joining SoFi, Mr. Fielding was a principal and
co-founder at MeasureOne, a student lending focused data and analytics firm offering portfolio management, servicing oversight, and
analytics services.
Paul holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics and Accounting from
UCLA.
In connection with the
appointment of Mr. Fielding, the Company entered into the following agreements:
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A Letter Agreement, dated as of August 19, 2021 (the “Letter Agreement”), between the Company and Mr. Fielding, pursuant
to which Mr. Fielding has agreed to vote any Class A ordinary shares of the Company, par value $0.0001
per share, held by him in favor of the Company’s initial business combination; to facilitate
the liquidation and winding up of the Company if an initial business combination is not consummated within 24 months of the Company’s
initial public offering; and to certain transfer restrictions with respect to the Company’s securities.
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An Indemnity Agreement, dated as of August 19, 2021 (the “Indemnity Agreement”), between the Company and Mr. Fielding,
providing Mr. Fielding contractual indemnification in addition to the indemnification provided for in the Company’s Amended and
Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
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The foregoing descriptions
of the Letter Agreement and the Indemnity Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entireties by reference to
the Letter Agreement and the Indemnity Agreement, copies of which are attached as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, and are incorporated
herein by reference. The terms of these agreements are substantially the same as the terms signed by the Company’s directors and
officers as of the closing of the initial public offering and as currently in effect.