Announcement • Jun 22
Gogo Ai Network Inc. Announces Board Changes
GoGo AI Network Inc. announced that, effective as of June 19, 2026, Brandon Kou had stepped down as a director and as President of GoGo to take on a leadership role with the Resulting Issuer, where he will serve as President and as a member of the Resulting Issuer’s board of directors. Brandon Kou is a seasoned public markets executive and investor with a track record spanning technology, healthcare, media, infrastructure, and digital assets. Prior to Algo8, Brandon Kou was a managing director at Wildcat Equity Partners, a U.S. based family office, where he oversaw investment initiatives across high-growth verticles, including AI-driven platforms and frontier technologies. He previously served as CEO and a board member of Leef Brands, a publicly traded multistate cannabis operator, where he led M&A strategy and capital structuring that grew the company into one of California’s largest operators before its merger with a leading state manufacturer. Earlier, Kou co-founded Block Partners, a blockchain-focused merchant bank, and Mavan Capital Partners, which brought technology opportunities to Canadian public markets, and held senior leadership roles at Steve Nash Enterprises overseeing a portfolio spanning Indochino, Sharecare, and the Vancouver Whitecaps. He began his career in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey and holds a degree from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Upon completion of the Arrangement, the board of directors of the Resulting Issuer is expected to be comprised of Brandon Kou, Nandan Mishra, Himanshu Singh, Douglas Steinberg, and Nicholas Mersch. Doug Steinberg is an operator and product leader working at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. He is an Operator-in-Residence at Primary Venture Partners, where he focuses on company formation within Primary’s incubation arm. He previously incubated Eos Cyber, an AI access-control company acquired by AppViewX in 2026. Earlier, he served as Head of Product at Elpha Secure, a cyber insurtech company, and as a cybersecurity consultant at IBM Security, where he advised government and Fortune 500 companies on cyber risk. He holds a B.S. in Applied Physics from Yale University. Nicholas Mersch is a technology investor and portfolio manager focused on artificial intelligence, growth-stage innovation, and the infrastructure layer powering the next computing cycle. As Portfolio Manager at Purpose Investments, he covers the public market side of AI across semiconductors, compute infrastructure, software, digital assets, and the broader technology ecosystem. Mersch’s work is grounded in a practical question: where does durable value accrue as AI moves from research labs into real-world deployment. His research has focused on the constraints shaping the AI economy, including compute availability, power, networking, memory, and the transition from traditional software platforms toward agentic systems.
