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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.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one
Craig A. Elson currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Catalyst Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: CATLU), a blank check company focused on effecting a business combination in the traditional and digital media sectors, including video game companies, mobile gaming, publishers, studios, and media platforms. Catalyst priced its $200 million initial public offering of 20 million units at $10.00 per unit in July 2026, with Santander acting as sole book-running manager. The SPAC is led by co-Chief Executive Officers Steven P. Beeks and Nicolas A. van Dyk, with Elson also serving as a managing member of the sponsor entity. In addition to his SPAC role, Elson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Lane Investments, a position he has held since 2012, through which he manages a portfolio of 35 companies spanning real estate, consumer brands, media, and technology. He also serves as a Managing Member of TM Medical Properties, LLC, a Core Plus real estate fund established in 2015 that purchases fully leased medical office buildings for high-net-worth investors, and as a Special Advisor to Hypothesis, a Los Angeles-based venture studio.
Elson brings more than 30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, investor, and operating executive, having partnered with over 50 companies across the full investment cycle from startups to leveraged buyouts. From 2016 to 2018, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Heal (Get Heal, Inc.), a disruptive health technology company. From 2011 to 2015, he was a Partner and Managing Director at Star Avenue Capital, LLC, a consumer growth equity investment firm partnered with Creative Artists Agency (CAA). From 1998 to 2010, Elson was a Partner and Managing Director at Banc of America Capital Investors (BACI), the predecessor entity to Ridgemont Equity Partners, where he served as Co-Head of the Media and Communications practice, deployed more than $500 million of capital across three funds, and sat on numerous portfolio company boards. Earlier in his career, from 1990 to 1996, he was with Turner Broadcasting International, Inc. (now part of AT&T), ultimately serving as Managing Director for Latin America and leading the organization’s Mexico City office.
Elson holds an AB in Political Science from Duke University, where he was a member of the varsity lacrosse team, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served on numerous private company boards and advisory boards throughout his career and has lived in New York, Atlanta, Charlotte, Boston, San Juan, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Beyond his investment career, Elson is an award-winning wildlife, landscape, and aerial photographer who has traveled to more than 60 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean over the past 30 years, and was named a runner-up in the Black and White category of the 2022 Nature Photographer of the Year competition.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002145407 — 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 3 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 3 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.