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Shahraab Ahmad is a seasoned investor, trader, and SPAC sponsor who currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ACAH) and Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: ACAB), both special purpose acquisition companies headquartered at 6 St Johns Lane, Floor 5, New York, NY 10013. Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp. I raised approximately $345 million in its March 2021 IPO, while Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp. II upsized its January 2022 IPO to 26.1 million units at $10 each, ultimately raising $300 million with Cantor Fitzgerald as left lead underwriter and an IPO cash-in-trust ratio of 102%. Ahmad is also the managing member of Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Management LLC, the sponsor entity for these SPACs, and has been identified in SEC filings as a director and 10 percent owner of both vehicles. The Atlantic Coastal team across both SPACs includes President and Director Burt Jordan, Chief Strategy Officer Tony Eisenberg, and Chief Financial Officer Jason Chryssicas.
Before launching the Atlantic Coastal platform, Ahmad founded and served as Chief Investment Officer of Decca Capital, a London-based credit hedge fund that invested across the U.S. and Europe from April 2015 through December 2018. Decca Capital entered into a joint venture partnership with City Financial Investment Company on February 12, 2015, and managed three long/short equity vehicles—the Decca Feeder Fund Offshore, Decca Feeder Fund Onshore, and Decca Master Fund—all of which were subsequently liquidated. Prior to founding Decca Capital, Ahmad was a portfolio manager at Hutchin Hill. His earlier career included a five-year stint at J.P. Morgan from 1999 to 2004, where he last served as co-head of the High Yield Credit trading group. He has also been identified as Chief Investment Officer at Orama Holdings Cayman Ltd and serves on the Board of Directors at Peer Capital Management Ltd.
In addition to his SPAC leadership roles, Ahmad is a Co-Founder and Partner of Disruptive Founders Fund (DFF), a venture investment firm focused on blockchain and emerging technology, alongside co-founder Srinivas Dhulipala. Ahmad is noted as an early investor in Blockchain.com, Vettery, Archer, and Dataminr. He attended Wesleyan University. His mailing address in SEC filings is listed as London, UK (SW10 9JE), reflecting his transatlantic presence between New York and London.
Ahmad's most notable SPAC transaction is the announced $505.2 million business combination between Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp. II and Abpro Corporation, a biotechnology company, which was announced on December 12, 2023. The deal was approved by shareholders on November 7, 2024, and closed on November 12, 2024, with Abpro Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: ABPO) emerging as the public entity, on which Ahmad serves as director and Chairman and CEO. The transaction was notable for pivoting Atlantic Coastal II away from its original next-generation mobility focus toward healthcare. Ahmad has also been involved in litigation related to his SPAC sponsorship, including a Delaware Superior Court case against Porche Capital Ltd. and its managing director Anthony Porcheron, and a purchase agreement involving Porche Capital Ltd and Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Management LLC. Through his Atlantic Coastal entities, Ahmad has demonstrated a track record of raising over $645 million in aggregate SPAC IPO proceeds and completing a deSPAC transaction in the healthcare sector.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001848131 — 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 8 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.