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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
2 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
4 people on two or more of them
Edward Wilson Davis, commonly known as Ward Davis, is a public equity markets veteran who served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of G Squared Ascend I Inc. (NYSE: GSQD) and G Squared Ascend II Inc., two special purpose acquisition companies sponsored by G Squared. He joined G Squared in July 2019 as a Principal, bringing nearly three decades of experience in public equity market research and fundamental equity investing. Based in Chicago, Illinois, Davis partnered with G Squared founder Larry Aschebrook and CFO Thomas L. Hoban to launch the Ascend SPAC platform, with the first vehicle founded on October 26, 2020. In his role as CEO, Davis was responsible for identifying and evaluating potential target companies, with a focus on technology businesses, and leading the execution of a business combination.
G Squared Ascend I Inc. completed its initial public offering and sought to identify a technology company for acquisition within its 24-month tenor, but ultimately failed to complete an initial business combination within that timeframe. G Squared Ascend II Inc. raised approximately $143.75 million in its IPO on June 15, 2021, with UBS serving as left lead underwriter and approximately 101.0% of IPO cash held in trust, also under a 24-month tenor. Davis's tenure at G Squared spanned from July 2019 through February 2025, encompassing five years and eight months during which he served as Principal while simultaneously holding his CEO and directorship roles at the Ascend SPACs. His career reflects a deep background in fundamental equity research and venture capital, and he is also identified as a founder in connection with his professional activities. The SPAC vehicles he led were part of the broader G Squared platform, which was established by Larry Aschebrook through G Squared Equity Management LP, and were designed to leverage the firm's technology investment expertise in seeking attractive acquisition targets in the tech sector.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001843816 — 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 44 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 14 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.