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Adam Gishen is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of FACT II Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: FACT), a special-purpose acquisition company that priced its $175 million IPO on November 26, 2024, offering 17.5 million units at $10.00 each underwritten by Cohen & Company Capital Markets and Seaport Global. Headquartered at 14 Wall Street, 20th Floor, New York, NY, FACT II is a Cayman Islands-incorporated blank check company focused on identifying high-potential businesses globally, with a SPAC tenor of 18 plus 6 months and 100.5% of IPO cash held in trust. Gishen co-founded the sponsor entity, FACT II Acquisition Parent LLC, alongside Min Lee, Richard Nespola, Jr., and Joseph Wagman, leveraging their collective experience in acquiring, building, operating, and scaling global financial services and complex operations businesses. In December 2025, FACT II announced a definitive business combination agreement with Precision Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc. (PAD), a high-growth aerospace and defense engineering and manufacturing firm based in Overland Park, Kansas, in a transaction valuing PAD at up to $320 million implied enterprise value. Gishen described PAD as a high-quality, visionary company with strong fundamentals, a blue-chip customer base, multi-year contracts, and strategic positioning at the nexus of aerospace and defense modernization and the burgeoning space sector.
Prior to leading FACT II, Gishen served as the Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Acquisition I Corp. from December 2020 to July 2023, when it completed its business combination with Complete Solaria, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSLR), a leading solar technology, services, and installation company. Following that transaction, Gishen transitioned to a board seat at Complete Solaria, where he continues to serve as a director. He founded Freedom Acquisition I Corp. in 2020 and guided it through its IPO and eventual de-SPAC transaction. Before entering the SPAC space, Gishen spent over two decades in senior financial services roles. From 2015 to 2020, he held several senior positions at Credit Suisse, including Head of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications, Marketing and Branding from 2019 to 2020, and Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications from 2017 to 2019. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he was a Partner at Ondra Partners, a financial advisory firm, where UK Companies House records show he was appointed as an LLP Member on December 1, 2011, resigning on June 23, 2015. Before Ondra, Gishen was a Managing Director at Nomura in London, and from 1999 to 2008 he specialized in Equity Capital Markets at Lehman Brothers.
Gishen holds an International Studies degree from the University of Leeds. He is based in London, England, United Kingdom, and maintains a correspondence address at 23rd Floor, 125 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1AR. Across his career, he has been associated with transactions totaling over $15 billion in transaction value, bringing decades of experience in global finance, investor relations, and capital markets to his current leadership role. His track record spans equity capital markets origination and execution at major investment banks, investor relations leadership at a global tier-one institution, and successful SPAC sponsorship and completion of a business combination in the clean energy sector, positioning him as a seasoned operator in both public and private capital markets.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001846826 — 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 27 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 17 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.