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none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
1 person on two or more of them
Ezra M. Gardner is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gesher Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: GSHR), a blank check company that raised approximately $143.75 million in its IPO on March 21, 2025, with BTIG as left lead underwriter. The SPAC is targeting high-growth Israeli or Israel-related technology companies conducting business internationally, with a particular focus on sectors including AI infrastructure, quantum computing, high-performance computing, robotics, and industrial technologies. Gardner has served as CEO and Chairman of the company's board of directors since its inception, and is also the sole managing member of Gesher Management II. He is based in Denver, Colorado, with operations also in Tel Aviv, Israel. In addition to his SPAC role, Gardner has served since 2012 as Partner, Co-Founder, and Chief Investment Officer of Varana Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on public and private market investing primarily in Israel, which in 2024 became the most active foreign venture capital fund in Israel according to IVC data. He currently serves on the boards of ten Israeli companies, both private and public, including Galileo Wheel, NeuReality, BeeHero, and Clear Cannabis, Inc. (CCI), a Colorado-based private business. He is also a strategic advisor to Cliintel Capital, where he assists portfolio company leaders on long-term business decisions.
Gardner's career began in 1999 as an analyst in the Investment Banking Group at JP Morgan, where he worked until 2001. From 2001 to 2005, he held senior analyst roles at MSD Capital (Michael Dell's family fund management office) and Braahman Capital. He then joined UBS in 2005, where he served as Portfolio Manager and ultimately as Head of UBS' US Equity Portfolio for the Fundamental Investment Group, becoming one of the youngest desk heads in the bank's history and managing a $30 billion long-short equity desk by the age of 28. He also sat on the US Trading Committee, the management board for the US equities business. At age 30, Gardner moved to Israel, and from 2009 to 2012 he served as Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager of Omnium Capital, LLC, a family office he co-founded in Tel Aviv. In 2012, he co-founded Varana Capital, which operates out of Denver and Tel Aviv and focuses on deeptech sectors including agritech, AI infrastructure, semiconductors, robotics, energy, and defense-related technologies. From November 2020 until January 2023, Gardner served as Co-Founder and CEO of Gesher I Acquisition Corp., the predecessor SPAC that merged with Israeli logistics technology company Freightos Limited. That transaction announced in May 2022 valued Freightos at an implied pro forma enterprise value of approximately $435 million, included a PIPE anchored by M&G Investments and Qatar Airways, and closed on January 25, 2023, with the combined entity trading on Nasdaq under the ticker CRGO. While Freightos' market value subsequently declined from the merger valuation to approximately $166 million, Gardner has publicly expressed pride in the deal and confidence in the company's continued growth trajectory. Gardner earned a BA in Economics (honors) and a BA in International Relations from Brown University in 1999. He has been an outspoken advocate for Israeli technology companies' access to U.S. capital markets, having appeared before the Knesset Finance Committee to warn about declining foreign investment in Israel, and he continues to travel to Israel roughly once a month despite geopolitical tensions.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001885574 — 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 72 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 37 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.