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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.
5 vehicles on file, newest listing first
4 of 17 appear on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
Stephen Markscheid is a seasoned corporate finance executive and independent director with more than 30 years of experience across the United States, Asia, and Europe, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and corporate governance. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Future Money Acquisition Corporation (FMACU), a San Francisco-based blank check company targeting AI, Web3, and intelligent manufacturing industries, which filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an IPO and listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol FMACU. In this role, which he assumed in December 2025, Markscheid works alongside CEO and Chairman Siyu Li. He is also the Managing Partner and sole member of Aerion Capital, a family office based in the Chicago area, and a Venture Partner at Strategic Ventures (SVRGlobal). He serves as Chairman of Amber Fusion Limited and as Senior Advisor to several entities. Markscheid is an active angel investor, with one known investment in Linkqlo, an application software company, which he exited in July 2017.
Throughout his career, Markscheid has held an extensive array of board seats across publicly listed companies and SPACs. He currently serves or has served as an independent non-executive director of Fanhua, Inc. (formerly CNinsure), Jinko Solar Inc. (since September 2009), ZZ Capital International Ltd. (also referred to as Xiaobai Maimai, Inc.), Kingwisoft Technology Services Ltd., UGE International, and Four Leaf Acquisition Corporation. He has also been Chairman of Still Waters Green Technology Ltd. since 2019, Chairman-Emeritus of KX Power Ltd., and a director of Starry Sea Acquisition, ChinaCast Education Corporation, and Asian Capital Holdings Limited. PitchBook records indicate he holds seven board seats, including ConnectM Technology Solutions, Charlton Aria Acquisition, Pantages Capital Acquisition, Richtech Robotics, and Four Leaf Acquisition. He previously served as an Advisor at Intelligent Generation and E8 Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Wilton Partners, a Shanghai-based boutique investment bank.
Markscheid's corporate career began with the US-China Business Council in Washington, D.C. and Beijing. He then spent ten years as a commercial banker with Chase Manhattan Bank and First National Bank of Chicago, working in London, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, and Beijing. Following his banking tenure, he worked with the Boston Consulting Group throughout Asia. From 1998 to 2006, he was with GE Capital, where he led the firm's business development activities in China and Asia Pacific, focusing primarily on acquisitions and direct investments. He lived and worked in Asia for over 20 years, including in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand. Beyond his native English, he is fluent in Chinese and conversant in Japanese and French.
Markscheid holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University (1976), an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University SAIS (1980), and an MBA from Columbia University (1991), where he was class valedictorian and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. He is a trustee emeritus of Princeton-in-Asia and is affiliated with the Global CSR Foundation, which describes him as a senior executive concentrated in M&A, corporate governance, and consulting. He resides in suburban Chicago with his wife, Veronique, and three children.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001494971 — 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 119 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 61 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.