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Jay Taragin is a seasoned financial executive currently serving as Chief Financial Officer of multiple special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) within the Churchill Capital platform, including Churchill Capital Corp IX (Nasdaq: CCIX), Churchill Capital Corp XI (Nasdaq: CCXI), and Churchill Capital Corp XII, as well as CFO of M. Klein and Company, the investment bank and advisory firm founded by Michael Klein. He is based at 640 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Taragin joined M. Klein and Company in May 2019 and has served as CFO of each Churchill SPAC since its inception. His responsibilities span the full lifecycle of these blank check companies, from IPO through business combination or liquidation.
Taragin's SPAC track record is extensive. He oversaw Churchill Capital Corp IX, which raised $287.5 million in its IPO in May 2024 and in June 2025 announced a business combination agreement with Plus Automation Inc., a company commercializing AI-based virtual driver software for autonomous trucks. He was CFO of Churchill Capital Corp X (Nasdaq: CCCX), which raised $414.0 million in its IPO in May 2025 and completed its initial business combination in February 2026 with Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ), a neutral atom-based technology company focused on computing and precision sensing. He served as CFO of Churchill Capital Corp VII from December 2020; that vehicle entered a definitive merger agreement with CorpAcq in August 2023, but the agreement was terminated in August 2024, after which Churchill VII began liquidation and returned cash to shareholders. Taragin was also CFO of Churchill Capital Corp IV (CCIV), which executed the high-profile merger agreement with Lucid Motors signed on February 22, 2021. Additionally, he served as CFO of AltC Acquisition Corp. until its initial business combination with Oklo in May 2024. Churchill Capital Corp XI, incorporated in the Cayman Islands on June 4, 2025, raised $414 million in its December 2025 IPO and listed on NASDAQ on February 9, 2026, with Taragin continuing as CFO.
Prior to joining M. Klein and Company, Taragin served as U.S. CFO of Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets from 2013 to 2017. From 2009 to 2012, he held a combined Chief Operating and Financial Officer role at a mortgage hedge fund. He spent a significant portion of his early career at Merrill Lynch & Company from 1993 to 2009, where he held a variety of senior finance and audit roles. Earlier in his career, he also worked at Credit Suisse and PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior auditor and accountant. His professional profile emphasizes experience in value creation, business advisory, bankruptcy, and senior financial management.
Taragin is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He holds a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University. His career reflects deep expertise across investment banking operations, SPAC financial management, and corporate finance, making him a central figure in the Churchill Capital platform's ongoing SPAC sponsorship activities.
Lee Jay Taragin currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Churchill Capital Corp XIII (XIIIU), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) headquartered in New York City. Appointed to this role in July 2026, Taragin is responsible for the financial oversight and regulatory reporting of the SPAC. In addition to his corporate officer duties, he acts as the Authorized Person for Churchill Sponsor XIII LLC, the sponsor entity affiliated with Churchill Capital Corp XIII. He is based at the company's offices located at 640 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Born in 1966, Taragin is an experienced financial executive with a demonstrated history of creating value and serving as a business adviser in the investment banking sector.
Taragin's career reflects a steady progression in financial leadership roles within prominent financial institutions. From 2013
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This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001802944 — 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 231 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 64 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.