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Thomas Fontaine serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Activate Energy Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: AEAQ), a Cayman Islands-incorporated special purpose acquisition company targeting businesses in the oil and gas industry. The SPAC completed its initial public offering on December 4, 2025, raising $230 million through the sale of 23 million units at $10.00 each, with BTIG serving as sole bookrunner and underwriter. Fontaine also serves as the managing member of the company's sponsor, Activate Energy Sponsors LLC, holding voting and investment discretion with respect to the sponsor's securities. The SPAC has a 24-month tenor to complete a business combination and is focused on identifying oil and gas targets that are unique, potentially compelling, transformational, and offer low-risk upside potential. As of early 2026, the company remained in the pre-deal stage, with Fontaine reaffirming management's commitment to pursuing valuable acquisition opportunities in alignment with the SPAC's stated strategy.
Fontaine is described in regulatory filings and company materials as an engineer and energy entrepreneur with board roles spanning both the energy and technology sectors. His current and recent directorships include serving as a director at Halocell Energy Ltd since August 2019, where he has been involved in the commercialization of printed Perovskite Solar Cell technology; Chairman of Chameleon Innovations Australia; Director at Rhino Energy since January 2020; and Non-Executive Director at Advent Energy since 2019. According to MarketScreener data, he is identified as Thomas Joseph Clayborne Fontaine and was the founder of Pure Energy Resources Pty Ltd, founded in 2006, and Bounty Oil & Gas NL, founded in 1999, reflecting a long-standing entrepreneurial track record in the Australian oil and gas sector. UK Companies House records list him as British, born in September 1979, with a current directorship at ArtfulBloom Limited, a business support services company where he has served as director for approximately three years.
The board of Activate Energy Acquisition Corp. alongside Fontaine includes David Wood, who serves as Chief Financial Officer and Director and previously held the role of fractional CFO at Focused Energy, as well as independent directors Jason Spittlehouse, Keith Byer, and Paul Moore. Fontaine has signed multiple SEC filings on behalf of the company, including the S-1 registration statement dated August 12, 2026, and an 8-K filing dated July 16, 2026. The company's principal offices are located at 71 Fort Street, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and it trades on the Nasdaq under the symbols AEAQ, AEAQU, and AEAQW. Fontaine has publicly commented on the SPAC landscape, noting in December 2025 that energy-focused SPACs stand out amid a market crowded with technology plays, positioning Activate Energy Acquisition as a differentiated vehicle in the rebounding SPAC market.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002101428 — 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 4 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.