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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
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
none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
Derek Jensen Sr., age 53, is a seasoned finance and corporate development executive who currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development at Swave Photonics, a holographic display technology company based in Los Angeles, California, a role he assumed in June 2025. In parallel, he was appointed as an Independent Director of Gesher Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: GSHR/GSHRU) effective July 23, 2025. Gesher Acquisition Corp. II is a blank check company founded on August 30, 2024 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination. Jensen also previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Board Member of SK Growth Opportunities Corporation (SKGR) from December 2021 through June 2025, bridging his SPAC leadership experience across two vehicles.
Jensen's career spans over two decades across technology investment banking, corporate development, and M&A leadership at major technology firms. Prior to joining Swave Photonics, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development at SK from February 2020 to December 2021, a role that preceded his elevation to CFO and board member at the firm's SPAC vehicle, SK Growth Opportunities Corporation. From 2018 to 2020, he held the position of Vice President of Corporate Business Development at Magic Leap, the augmented reality company. Before that, from 2016 to 2018, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development and M&A at GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the global semiconductor manufacturer. His earlier career includes over a decade in semiconductor-focused technology investment banking, and he has also held a director role at Ineda Systems, Inc. He has additionally been associated with IEQ Capital as a Senior Director, bringing extensive experience in finance and investment operations.
Jensen's educational background is distinctive in its combination of business and engineering credentials. He earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) from the University of Illinois Chicago, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from the University of Minnesota. This dual technical-financial foundation has underpinned his specialization in semiconductor and emerging technology sectors, including holographic extended reality (HXR) and spatial computing. His deep involvement in commercializing next-generation display and AR technologies, combined with his extensive M&A and capital markets experience, positions him as a valuable independent voice on the Gesher Acquisition Corp. II board as it pursues its business combination objectives.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001931715 — 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 55 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 34 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.