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Dimitri Elkin is a seasoned private equity and investment banking executive who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Twelve Seas Investment Company III (NASDAQ: TWLVU), a blank check company focused on identifying merger targets in the Pan-Eurasian region, with a particular emphasis on the Middle East and Central Asia, targeting companies with equity values between $500 million and $5 billion. He is also the managing member of Twelve Seas Holdings LLC, the managing member of the sponsor for Twelve Seas III. Based in Los Angeles, California, Elkin has been a founding partner of Twelve Seas Limited since April 2013 and has led multiple SPAC vehicles through their lifecycles, including Twelve Seas Investment Company I (BROG), Twelve Seas Investment Company II (TWLV), and Quadro Acquisition One Corp. (QDRO). Twelve Seas III completed its $172.5 million initial public offering in December 2025, pricing 17,250,000 units at $10.00 per unit.
Elkin previously served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Quadro Acquisition One Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company that raised $230 million in its February 2021 IPO with Citigroup as left lead underwriter. He was appointed CEO of Quadro in June 2022, also serving as the company's principal financial and accounting officer, and guided the entity until its liquidation with a closing date of May 29, 2024. Prior to Quadro, he was CEO of Twelve Seas Investment Company I (BROG), which raised $150 million in its June 2018 IPO underwritten by EarlyBird Capital and completed a business combination in the oil storage and services sector with a deal value of approximately $1.1 billion. He also led Twelve Seas Investment Company II (TWLV), which raised $250 million in its February 2021 IPO with Mizuho Securities as bookrunner. During his tenure at Quadro, Elkin announced an agreement to merge with a group of seven companies in the sports collectibles and software sectors, part of Greg Lindberg's portfolio, with an estimated pro forma enterprise value of $3 billion, though the SPAC ultimately liquidated.
Over a career spanning more than twenty years, Elkin has built deep experience in private equity and investment banking across the former Soviet Union and broader emerging markets. He served as a general partner with UFG Private Equity and held roles at KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) and Lehman Brothers earlier in his career. According to Meshflow data, his aggregate capital deployed across SPAC transactions totals approximately $600 million across three transactions, with deal sectors spanning collectibles and healthcare software and services as well as oil storage and services. His frequent underwriters have included Citigroup, Mizuho Securities, Credit Suisse, BofA Securities, and EarlyBird Capital, and he has worked alongside associates including Neil Richardson, Jonathan Morris, Anthony Steains, and Konstantin Tourevski.
Born on February 2, 1969, in Omsk, Russia, Elkin is the son of a history teacher. He served in the Soviet army from 1987 to 1989 before pursuing higher education. He earned a B.S. in mathematics from Moscow State University in 1992 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1996. He holds American nationality and has also been identified as an author, with a biography noting his two decades of work as a professional investor in the former Soviet Union. His professional address has been listed at 850 Library Avenue, Suite 204, Newark, Delaware, and his correspondence address at 2685 Nottingham Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027. He served as a director of Twelve Seas Limited (UK company number 08472556) from April 3, 2013, until the company's dissolution, and was a director of his initial SPAC vehicle from inception until May 2018.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001744019 — 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 60 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 28 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.