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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
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 14 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting — again over all 14.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
2 liquidated · 1 terminated deal — weigh against the wins.
5 vehicles on file, newest listing first
5 of 11 appear on more than one · 3 vehicles carry no counterparty filing we have read
5 people on two or more of them
Daniel J. Hennessy is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hennessy Capital LLC, an alternative investment firm he established in 2013 to focus on sustainable industrial technology, infrastructure, and real estate technology sectors. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII (NASDAQ: HCICU), the eighth special purpose acquisition company in the Hennessy lineage, which raised approximately $241.5 million in its upsized IPO priced on February 5, 2026, with Barclays as left lead and Cohen & Company Capital Markets as joint book-runner. The SPAC is targeting businesses in industrial innovation and energy transition sectors. Hennessy is widely recognized as one of the longest-tenured and most experienced SPAC sponsors, with a track record spanning multiple vehicles and market cycles. He also serves as a director of Daseke Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE), Innventure Inc. (NASDAQ: INV), and Blue Bird Corp. (NASDAQ: BLBD), and his estimated net worth as of mid-2026 was at least $13 million based on SEC filings.
Hennessy’s SPAC career began in September 2013 when he took Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. public as Chairman and CEO, completing a merger with School Bus Holdings Inc. in February 2015 to form Blue Bird Corporation; he remained a director until April 2019. From April 2015 to February 2017, he served as Chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. II, which merged with Daseke in February 2017, after which he became Vice Chairman of Daseke. From January 2017 to October 2018, he was Chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. III, which merged with NRC Group Holdings to form US Ecology (NASDAQ: ECOL), and he continued as a director through October 2019. Since March 2019, he served as Chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. IV (NASDAQ: HCAC), which announced a definitive agreement to merge with Canoo Holdings Ltd. in August 2020. He has also served as Senior Advisor to PropTech Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: PTAC), which announced a merger with Porch.com in July 2020, and as a director of SIRVA, a Madison Dearborn Partners portfolio company, from August 2018.
Prior to founding Hennessy Capital, Hennessy spent nearly three decades as a Partner at Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC (CHS), a middle-market private equity firm he co-founded in 1988, where he remained until 2016. Before launching CHS, he worked at Citicorp from 1984 to 1988, serving as head of the Midwest Region for Citicorp Mezzanine Investments and as Vice President and Team Leader with the Citicorp Leveraged Capital Group. He began his career in 1981 in the energy lending group at Continental Illinois National Bank (now Bank of America) as a Banking Officer. In total, he brings over 30 years of private equity investment experience and more than a decade of SPAC sponsorship experience.
Hennessy holds a BA degree, magna cum laude, from Boston College and an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He has dedicated over 25 years to nonprofit board service across healthcare, higher education, and conservation organizations, including leadership positions at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the National MS Society, the John G. Shedd Aquarium, Georgetown University, and the Yellowstone Park Foundation. He is based in the New York area, with Hennessy Capital Group LLC headquartered at 195 US Highway in the region.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001519536 — 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 291 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 123 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.