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Matthew Scott Kupersmith currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Irenic Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: IACQU), a special purpose acquisition company that priced its $220 million IPO on April 27, 2026, with units beginning trading the following day. The SPAC, formed by activist investment firm Irenic Capital Management LP, targets companies in the aerospace, defense, and broader industrial sectors, with a particular focus on businesses that have proven operating performance, favorable long-term demand, and high-caliber leadership at an inflection point where Irenic believes it can help drive improved financial performance. Kupersmith works alongside CEO Adam Katz and President E-Fei Wang, and together with Katz he serves as a manager of the SPAC's sponsor, Irenic Sponsor, LLC, which is principally owned by the Irenic Capital Evergreen Master Fund. The offering was underwritten by Jefferies as sole book-running manager and Odeon Capital Group as co-manager, with White & Case LLP as issuer's counsel and Kirkland & Ellis LLP as underwriter's counsel. In addition to his SPAC role, Kupersmith serves as an advisor to Irenic Capital Management, a New York-based activist hedge fund firm co-founded by Adam Katz and Andy Dodge in 2021 that managed approximately $2.5 billion in assets as of March 1, 2026 and has launched ten co-investment vehicles since inception.
Kupersmith brings over 20 years of principal investment and operating experience in private equity to his current roles. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director at Och-Ziff Capital Management, the prominent alternative investment firm. In 2013, he co-founded Iron Compass, a Darien, Connecticut-based hedge fund manager, alongside James Hegyi, serving as co-founder, managing partner, and portfolio manager. According to more recent professional listings, Kupersmith has also held the position of managing director at Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. His career has spanned operations, investments, and acquisitions, giving him extensive experience in identifying, assessing, and executing transactions across a range of industries. Kupersmith holds a degree from Harvard University, where he studied from 1998 to 2002, and he is based in the New York City metropolitan area.
At Irenic Acquisition, Kupersmith's responsibilities include overseeing the financial aspects of the SPAC's search for and consummation of an initial business combination, drawing on Irenic Capital's infrastructure, personnel, analytic capabilities, network, and relationships. The SPAC intends to focus on companies with enterprise values greater than what could be acquired with the net proceeds of the offering alone, and may utilize a combination of cash from the IPO, private placement units, forward purchase units, equity, and debt as consideration. The firm's investment thesis emphasizes commercial aerospace demand supported by elevated OEM backlogs, defense growth driven by increases in U.S. Department of Defense funding and modernization priorities, and opportunities in electrical components and broader electrification-linked industrial businesses. Irenic's activist approach, which ranked among the top-ten activists in 2025 according to Barclays with five campaigns that year, informs the SPAC's strategy of targeting established companies where the team can help drive improved financial performance and strong cash generation. The board of directors of Irenic Acquisition Corp. includes Paul Adams, Krik S. Hachigian, and Larry A. Lawson.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002130715 — 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 5 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 4 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.