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J. Kyle Derham is a Partner at Rice Investment Group, a position he has held since January 2018, and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Rice Acquisition Corporation III (NYSE: KRSP), roles he assumed in June 2025. Rice Acquisition Corp III went public in October 2025, raising approximately $300 million through an IPO of 30 million units priced at $10.00 each, with Barclays and Jefferies serving as bookrunners. The SPAC is sponsored by Rice Investment Group and Mercuria and focuses on targets across the broadly defined energy value chain, including upstream oil and gas, power generation, energy infrastructure, and critical metals and minerals. Headquartered at 102 East Main Street in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, the company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Derham is based in Austin, Texas, according to his social media presence.
Derham has established himself as one of the most prolific SPAC sponsors and executives in the energy sector, with a track record spanning multiple successful blank-check vehicles. He served as Chief Financial Officer and a director of Rice Acquisition Corp I (NYSE: RICE) from October 2020 until September 2021, when Rice I completed its initial business combination with Archaea Energy and Aria Energy, creating the world's largest developer of renewable natural gas. Following that merger, Derham served as a director of Archaea Energy Inc. (NYSE: LFG) from September 2021 through December 2022, when the company was acquired by BP Products North America for approximately $4.1 billion. He subsequently served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Rice Acquisition Corp II (NYSE: RONI) from February 2022 until June 2023, when Rice II completed its business combination with NET Power (NYSE: NPWR). Derham has continued to serve as a director of NET Power since June 2023 and also served as CEO of RONI from February 2022, having previously been its CFO from February 2021. His aggregate capital deployed across SPAC transactions totals approximately $952.5 million across four deals, with frequent underwriters including Barclays Capital, Jefferies, and B. Riley Principal Capital.
Prior to his SPAC leadership roles, Derham served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance at Rice Energy Inc. and Rice Midstream Partners LP from January 2014 through November 2017, where he structured RICE and RMP's financings and acquisitions and helped pioneer Rice's integrated hedging and firm transportation strategy. As part of the Rice Team, he led the 2019 shareholder proxy campaign to revamp the strategic direction of EQT Corporation, the largest natural gas producer in the United States, successfully electing a majority slate of director candidates to EQT's board. Following the campaign, Derham served as interim Chief Financial Officer of EQT from July 2019 through December 2021 and subsequently as a strategic advisor to the company through 2022. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at First Reserve, an energy-focused private equity fund, and before that an investment banker at Barclays Investment Bank. Derham earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His reported insider holdings span multiple public companies, including EQT Corporation, Archaea Energy, NET Power, AirJoule Technologies, and Rice Acquisition Corp III, with an estimated net worth of approximately $16.1 million based on reported share holdings.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001786795 — 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 191 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 65 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.