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Rear Admiral (Ret.) Matthew Burns, 57, serves as an Independent Director on the board of Collective Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: CAII), a blank check company focused on businesses impacting U.S. national security, sovereignty, and strategic resources. He has held this board seat since the commencement of the company's listing on Nasdaq. Through his membership interests in the company's sponsor, Burns holds an indirect interest in 25,000 founder shares. The board is led by Chairman, President, and CFO Samuel Sayegh and CEO Daniel Hoffman, alongside fellow directors Lieutenant General (Ret.) Francis Beaudette and James Shekerdemian.
A native of Metuchen, New Jersey, Burns enlisted in the United States Navy in 1988 and graduated from Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training class 158. He served as an enlisted SEAL at SDV Team ONE, SEAL Team FIVE, and the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), the Navy’s Special Mission Unit. After commissioning through the Seaman to Admiral program, he continued his service with DEVGRU, rising from Troop Commander to Commander of the entire organization. Following his promotion to flag officer, he served as Director of Operations and Assistant Commander at Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and subsequently as a Joint Task Force Commander at United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). He retired from the Navy in 2025 after a distinguished career in which he trained and led the nation’s elite warfighters in combat, earned decorations for valor under fire, and fast-tracked the adoption of classified technologies.
In his post-military career, Burns has established himself as a strategic advisor and consultant in the defense and technology sectors. He serves on the Federal Advisory Board of Ditto, a venture-backed edge computing company, and advises Odin Dynamics, a firm focused on advanced unmanned underwater vehicles
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002124259 — 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 5 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 5 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.