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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.
1 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
2 people on two or more of them
Matthew C. Le Merle is a seasoned business executive, investor, author, and board director with approximately four decades of experience spanning global strategy consulting, corporate operating roles, private equity, and venture capital. He currently serves as Managing Partner and CEO of Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors, a specialized asset manager providing access to exponential growth and digital asset investment opportunities, which he co-founded with his wife, Alison Davis. In connection with Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I (NasdaqGM: FERA), a special purpose acquisition company focused on financial technology, enterprise software, and digital assets, Le Merle serves as Chairman of the board of directors and Managing Director. The SPAC filed for a $200–250 million IPO in early 2021 and, as of April 2026, entered into a definitive business combination agreement with SMT Holdings Limited (Miotal) valued at approximately $10 billion, with the combined entity expected to list on Nasdaq. Le Merle and Davis jointly control the SPAC's sponsor entity and make acquisition decisions together, drawing on their combined experience across venture investing, financial-services consulting, and public-company governance.
Le Merle's career began in the early 1980s with associate roles at NatWest (1980–1981), McKinsey & Company (1984–1992), Bankers Trust and BT Capital (1987). He then joined A.T. Kearney in 1992 as part of the newly created financial institutions practice in New York, relocating to San Francisco in 1994. He rose to Senior Partner, led the West Coast operations across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley with approximately 350–400 people, and co-led the global financial services practice with Davis before departing in 1999. He subsequently served as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Business Development and then SVP of Global Marketing at Gap (1999–2000). From 2002 to 2006, he was a General Partner at Monitor Group and Venture Partner at Monitor Venture Partners. He then became Chairman & CEO of Le Merle Group (2006–2010) and Lead Partner at Booz & Company (2010–2013). Since 2006, he has served as Managing Partner at Keiretsu Forum and Keiretsu Capital, described as the world's largest network of early-stage angel investors with 53 chapters across three continents. He has also been Managing Partner of Blockchain Coinvestors and Fifth Era since 2012, and an Executive Officer at Blockchain Coinvestors Fund III. He has served as Chairman of Concept Art House since 2006 and was Chairman of SuperTales Inc. from 2013 to 2015. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Singularity University since January 2017, teaching courses on corporate innovation, entrepreneurship, and blockchain.
Educated at Christ Church, Oxford (MA) and Stanford University Graduate School of Business (MBA), Le Merle grew up in England before spending most of his life in Silicon Valley. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically Belvedere and Tiburon in Marin County, California, and splits his time between the United States and the UK. He has served as an advisor to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and PayPal, and has consulted for several regional and national governments including Korea, India, Indonesia, Israel, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, provinces of China, and the state of California. He has served as chairman or non-executive director for 14 companies throughout his career. He is the co-author of "Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft," an Amazon #1 bestseller in nine categories, as well as "Blockchain Competitive Advantage" and the science fiction novel "Second Chance." His speaking fee ranges from $25,000 to $30,000, and his insights on blockchain and reinventing business models for the digital economy have been sought by major technology companies and national governments. He and Davis raised five children togethe
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001858920 — 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 53 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 26 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.