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Justin Lafazan is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Soulpower Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: SOUL), a Cayman Islands-incorporated special-purpose acquisition company focused on the insurance services and retirement savings sectors. Soulpower raised approximately $220 to $250 million in its upsized IPO in April 2025, underwritten by Cantor Fitzgerald, with units priced at $10.00. Lafazan is the company's largest shareholder, controlling roughly 22% of shares outstanding, and he personally acquired an additional 400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares at $10 per share in April 2025, totaling $4 million. In November 2025, Soulpower announced a definitive business combination agreement with SWB LLC, a newly formed Cayman Islands entity established to launch "SOUL WORLD BANK," a new economy financial services conglomerate, stablecoin issuer, and international bank, in partnership with Web3 pioneer Animoca Brands. The transaction is valued at approximately $8.1 billion pre-money, supported by a $5.0 billion committed equity facility through CREO Investments LLC. Upon closing, Lafazan will become Chairman and CEO of the combined public company, SWB Holdings, and will indirectly control the Class V ordinary shares—the only voting equity—through The Lafazan Brothers LLC.
Prior to founding Soulpower in August 2023, Lafazan co-founded Next Gen HQ in October 2014, a venture-backed education technology firm and community for millennial entrepreneurs, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from October 2014 through December 2022 and as a director from October 2023. Next Gen Summit was recognized by Forbes as one of five "can't-miss" conferences for entrepreneurs and by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the best events for entrepreneurs under 30. Lafazan was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition in the education category for this work. In January 2023, he also became Chairman of Fam1 Investments, a private family investment entity. His earliest venture was Students4Students College Advisory, a full-service higher education consulting agency he founded while still in high school, which grew from a hometown startup into a multinational operation serving clients from New York to Cairo to Switzerland, helping students gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and other elite institutions.
Lafazan is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books, "What Wakes You Up?" (published December 2015) and "Now That's Momentum," and has delivered TEDx talks and lectures at universities and corporations worldwide on topics including young entrepreneurship, collaborative ecosystems, and personal freedom. He has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Based in New York, Lafazan's career has been characterized by an early start in entrepreneurship—he began building companies as a teenager—and a philosophy centered on collaboration over competition, positioning himself among high achievers, and designing businesses that leverage emerging technologies such as AI, stablecoins, and tokenization to shift financial power toward everyday consumers.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002025609 — 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 13 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 8 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.