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Darius Gudelis is a Lithuanian public policy expert, sports executive, and businessman who currently serves as an independent director on the board of Aeon Acquisition I Corp. (NASDAQ: AESP), a $125 million special purpose acquisition company that priced its IPO in June 2026 and targets businesses in the sports industry with an emphasis on the European market. He holds 12,500 Class B ordinary shares of the SPAC, acquired at the nominal founder price of $0.004 per share. Aeon Acquisition I Corp. is led by CEO Demetrios Mallios, CFO Alan Lewis, COO Victor Klinefelter, CIO Georgios Panou, Chief Strategy Officer Alex Saratsis, and Chief Business Officer Themis Bilionis, with Gudelis serving alongside fellow board members Nikolas Kiosses, Peter Rawlings, and Sulaiman Cisse. The SPAC's sponsor is Aeon Acquisition Partners I LLC, based at 66 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida. Chardan served as lead underwriter, with D. Boral Capital LLC as co-lead and Brookline Capital Markets as co-manager.
Gudelis rose to national prominence in Lithuania at an exceptionally young age, being elected the youngest mayor in the country's history at age 26, where he built a track record for economic improvement and ethical governance. In 2004, he managed Valdas Adamkus's presidential campaign and was credited with guiding Adamkus to victory, subsequently serving as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to the president. He later served as Chairman of the Board at vip:communications, a Lithuanian public relations, lobbying, and advertising firm specializing in integrated communications for the private and public sector, with a focus on investing in regional media and business development in Central and Eastern Europe. He also co-founded the Institute of Strategic Research, a policy research and analysis organization. In recognition of his leadership and public service, Gudelis was selected as a 2005 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at Yale University, a program that brings emerging global leaders to Yale for a semester of academic enrichment and leadership development.
In the business realm, Gudelis serves as director and manager of UAB "TAT Logistic," a Vilnius-based freight transport company (company code 300860533) operating in road freight transport, a position he has held since February 2026. He is also identified as a project manager at UAB Dakus and has been described as Head of Strategic Projects of the Lithuanian National team, reflecting his involvement in strategic sports development initiatives. His LinkedIn profile highlights expertise in the spectator sports and communications/marketing industries, with skills in leadership, strategy, public policy, and business development.
Gudelis is perhaps best known in the sports world as a co-owner and Chairman of the Board of BC Rytas Vilnius, one of Lithuania's premier professional basketball clubs, and serves as a Club Counsel Member at Basketball Champions League SA. Under his stewardship, Rytas Vilnius won the FIBA Basketball Champions League in Badalona, a major European trophy, despite being considered underdogs. Gudelis has been instrumental in transforming the club into a community-based organization since the summer of 2017, when the club faced a financial and value crisis that led to a change in ownership. In a notable move for European basketball governance, he sold one of his eleven ownership shares to the club's ultras group, B Tribuna, making fans partial owners—a decision he described as aligned with the philosophy of the most progressive sports organizations in Europe. He has served on the FIBA Europe Board, further cementing his influence in continental basketball administration. Gudelis is approximately 51 years old and is based in Lithuania, with SEC correspondence addressed to the Miami, Florida area.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002111208 — 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.
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