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SEC-verified vehicles of the same sponsor, predating these roles and carrying none of them. The badge counts them; the figure beside this one does not.
Mergers closed across all 3 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting — again over all 3.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
3 of 8 appear on more than one
1 person on two or more of them
Ryan Gentry is a seasoned entrepreneur, engineer, and digital asset executive who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp (BIXI), a blank-check company focused on the Bitcoin and digital asset industry. In this capacity, he led the SPAC's $200 million IPO, which was upsized to $220 million due to oversubscription and priced in December 2025, with units offered at $10 on the Nasdaq under the symbol BIXIU. Cohen & Company Securities served as sole bookrunner. Gentry is also associated with CSLM Acquisition Corporation II, Ltd (KOYNU), another $200 million SPAC searching for a target as of June 2025, also underwritten by Cohen & Company Capital Markets. Across these vehicles, he has approximately $400 million in aggregate active capital deployed with a 100% merger completion rate across two transactions. He is joined at BIXI by Chairman Parker White, the COO and CIO of DeFi Dev Corp (Nasdaq: DFDV), and Director Vikas Mittal, Managing Member and CIO of Meteora Capital, who brings prior SPAC experience from GSR II Meteora Acquisition's merger with Bitcoin Depot. James DeAngelis serves as CFO. Gentry has described his investment thesis around an "aerospace mafia" of engineers flocking to Bitcoin and has identified Bitcoin lending as a particularly attractive sector for public markets.
Gentry's career spans engineering, venture capital, and financial technology. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and began his career at Intel as a Controls Engineer. He caught the Bitcoin bug in 2017 while building Internet of Things prototypes, realizing that connected devices would need a native payment mechanism and that USD would not suffice. He subsequently earned an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech (2016–2018). Following graduate school, he spent approximately two years on the deal team as Lead Analyst for Multicoin Capital, a crypto-focused investment firm, before joining Lightning Labs as Director of Business Development, where he focused on scaling Bitcoin through the Lightning Network. During his tenure at Lightning Labs, the company raised its Seed (March 2018), Series A (August 2019), and Series B (April 2022) funding rounds. He has also served as an advisor to Trammell Venture Partners (TVP) and has been recognized as a speaker at CoinDesk's Consensus 2023 conference, where he participated in a session on scaling Bitcoin via Lightning.
Beyond his digital asset work, Gentry is the CEO and Co-Founder of Drop Cowboy, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based SaaS communications platform specializing in ringless voicemail, SMS marketing, power dialers, and business automation tools. Under his leadership, Drop Cowboy has positioned itself as a trusted, TCPA-compliant solution for businesses ranging from startups to enterprise organizations, and Gentry has been recognized as a member of the Forbes Business Council, where he has published articles on AI adoption and business process automation. He is also actively involved in building new ventures under Cowboy Concepts LLC, focusing on SaaS, automation, and accelerator opportunities. Gentry is based in Austin, Texas, and maintains ties to Scottsdale and Carefree, Arizona, as well as Playa Bandera, Costa Rica, and Cancun, Mexico. He is married to Ashley Gentry, is a father of four, and is associated with Souza Grappling Co. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of engineering, venture capital, and financial technology, Gentry brings a unique blend of technical depth, deal-making experience, and entrepreneurial leadership to his SPAC endeavors, all focused on innovation at the intersection of finance and the Internet.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002092900 — 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 15 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 9 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.