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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.
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none appears on more than one
Scott A. LaPorta serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Director of Vendome Acquisition Corporation I (NASDAQ: VNME), a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in 2025 and headquartered at 1090 Center Drive, Park City, Utah. He has held these roles since January 2025, guiding the SPAC through its initial public offering on July 2, 2025, which raised $200 million through the sale of 20 million units at $10.00 per unit on the Nasdaq, with D. Boral Capital serving as sole bookrunner. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one-half of a warrant exercisable at $11.50. Vendome Acquisition Corp I is targeting consumer-sector businesses in North America, Southeast Asia, and Europe, with a particular interest in companies significantly upstream in the consumer value chain, including agribusiness and water-related growth strategies, and focusing on targets with enterprise values between $500 million and $1 billion. The SPAC has a 24-month initial transaction deadline.
In addition to his SPAC responsibilities, LaPorta currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sugarfina USA, a luxury online candy retailer affiliated with Bristol Luxury Group, where Vendome's Executive Chairman Paul L. Kessler and President Diana Derycz-Kessler also hold board roles. Prior to Sugarfina, LaPorta spent seven years as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of Bolthouse Farms, a major agricultural and consumer packaged goods company, giving him deep operational and financial experience in the food and agribusiness sectors. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions at Levi Strauss, Hilton Hotels, and Marriott, building a broad foundation across consumer products, hospitality, and operations management.
The Vendome Acquisition Corp I board is rounded out by several seasoned executives, including Brett Wyard, a former Carlyle executive who founded Solace Capital Partners; Brian Webber, formerly global head of technology investment banking at UBS and later a partner at Moelis who co-founded American Discovery Capital; and Jonathan Gray, CEO of boutique advisory firm First Idea International since 2008. Amy Wang serves as General Counsel, having previously practiced at Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole before joining the Kesslers' firm Bristol. The SPAC's underwriting structure features below-market fees, with 0.70% paid upfront and 3.00% deferred to the closing of a business combination, with the deferred portion payable only based on the percentage of funds remaining in trust after redemptions. No information on LaPorta's educational background was available in the sources reviewed, and the SPAC has not yet announced a definitive business combination target.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001159806 — 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 15 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 7 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.