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SEC-verified vehicles of the same sponsor, predating these roles and carrying none of them. The badge counts them; the figure beside this one does not.
Mergers closed across all 4 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting — again over all 4.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
1 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
6 of 6 appear on more than one
2 people on two or more of them
Francis Sherman Adams, commonly known as Fran Adams, is a seasoned finance executive currently serving as Chief Financial Officer of multiple blank check companies in the Research Alliance Corporation family. He has held the CFO role at Research Alliance Corporation IV (RACD) since April 2026 and at Research Alliance Corporation III (RACC) since February 2026. Research Alliance Corporation III priced a $75 million IPO in May 2026, with Adams serving as a key member of the leadership team alongside Chief Executive Officer and Director Dr. Matthew D. Hammond. Both entities are newly organized special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) formed for the purpose of effecting business combinations.
Beyond his SPAC roles, Adams is currently a Partner at van den Boom and Associates, a position he has held while bringing over 20 years of accounting and finance experience to his work. His professional base appears to be in the Antwerp Metropolitan Area, as indicated by his LinkedIn profile. Details regarding his earlier career history, educational background, and specific prior employers are not disclosed in the available sources, though his extensive two-decade track record in accounting and finance underpins his appointments across the Research Alliance platform.
Adams's involvement with the Research Alliance SPACs places him at the center of a serial sponsorship vehicle strategy, where his financial oversight responsibilities span IPO execution, regulatory filings, and capital management for the trusts associated with each blank check company. His SEC filings as an officer of Research Alliance Corporation IV triggered initial statements of beneficial ownership, reflecting the standard compliance requirements for SPAC executives upon formation. While no completed business combinations or notable exits have been publicly documented for the Research Alliance entities as of the available information, Adams's concurrent CFO appointments across successive SPAC vehicles indicate a recurring role within this sponsorship framework.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002133304 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 16 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 11 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.