GPAC Global Partner Acqusition Corporation II

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On February 1, 2023, Richard C. Davis was appointed as a member of the board of directors of Global Partner Acquisition Corp II (the “Company”).

Richard C. Davis is a highly experienced executive with over 25 years of experience in corporate finance, private equity and the space industry. Mr. Davis has served as the President of the Company and the President of Constellation Acquisition Corp I (“Constellation”) since January 2023. Mr. Davis has also served as a member of the board of Constellation since February 2023. Mr. Davis has served as a member of the board of SatixFy Communications Ltd. (“SatixFy”) since October 2022. Prior to that, he served as the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Endurance Acquisition Corp. from April 2021 until the completion of its business combination with SatixFy in October 2022. Since March 2021, he has served as a managing director of ADP. He is also a founder and managing member of ArgoSat Advisors, a premier global advisory firm focused on the space industry that was founded in 2009. As part of his duties with ArgoSat, Mr. Davis sits on the board of Sky and Space Corporation. Prior to ArgoSat, Mr. Davis was president, and later interim-CFO, for ProtoStar, a communications satellite operator which raised over $500 million and launched two DTH satellites over Asia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Davis was a private equity investor Principal at VantagePoint Venture Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm with $4 billion of assets under management. His focus was on media/telecom as well as semiconductors/semiconductor capital equipment. Before that he was a vice president and founding member of the Lehman Brothers Communication Fund which was an $800 million private equity fund focused on communications infrastructure investments. In these roles, Mr. Davis was involved in equity and debt investments, asset acquisitions and dispositions and mergers and other business combinations or spin-offs for approximately two dozen companies in various investment lifecycle stages. Mr. Davis started his corporate finance career as an associate at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Davis was formerly an instructor pilot in the United States Air Force. He received his B.S. in Astrophysics (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota, and his MBA from the University of Virginia. We believe that Mr. Davis is well qualified to serve on our board due to his extensive background in corporate finance and private equity.

Mr. Davis will not be compensated by the Company for his service as a director.

In connection with his previous appointment as President of the Company, Mr. Davis entered into a standard form of indemnity agreement and a joinder agreement to the letter agreement, dated January 11, 2021, by and among the Company, its officers and directors and Global Partner Sponsor II LLC (the “Letter Agreement”) to be bound by the same provisions applicable to Insiders (as such term is defined in the Letter Agreement).