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**Taryn Jogi Naidu** is a seasoned technology executive and public markets veteran who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Armada Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: XRPN), a special purpose acquisition company that completed its IPO on June 24, 2025. Based in the Miami, Florida area for his Armada role (with additional addresses in Kirkland, Washington and Santa Monica, California), Naidu leads the SPAC alongside Chairman J. Michael Arrington, with a mandate to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, or recapitalization. He has held the CEO and director position at Armada II since 2025. The company operates in the Financial Services sector under the Shell Companies industry classification and trades on NASDAQ.
Naidu's career spans over two decades across technology, digital media, and quantum computing. He began his professional life as a software engineer after earning a B.Sc. in computer science, and approximately twenty years ago he served as CEO of a tech startup. He subsequently joined Demand Media Inc. (later Leaf Group Ltd., ticker LEAF), where he held the role of Executive Vice President of Domain Services as of May 2014. He then moved to Rightside Group Ltd. (ticker NAME), a domain name and online services company, where he served as Director and Chief Executive Officer from at least July 2017. In the quantum computing space, Naidu joined Rigetti Computing Inc. (NASDAQ: RGTI) as Chief Operating Officer in March 2022, was elevated to Independent Director in August 2023, and by August 2025 held the title of Director and Chief Executive Officer. He has also served as an Independent Director at System1, Inc. since 2023. Additionally, Naidu was welcomed as Chief Operating Officer at Arrington Capital, the crypto-focused investment firm, and has been a board member and YPO member since June 2021.
His public markets track record is substantial. According to SEC filings tracked across multiple sources, Naidu has reported ownership interests in at least five public companies: Demand Media Inc., Rightside Group Ltd., Leaf Group Ltd., Rigetti Computing Inc., and Armada Acquisition Corp. II. His most active year for share acquisitions was 2014, with twelve total transactions, while 2017 was his most active year for dispositions, totaling eleven transactions. In 2017 alone, he acquired 197,968 shares for approximately $70,711 and disposed of 842,531 shares for roughly $4.76 million in realized value. As of mid-2026, he held 915,355 shares of RGTI stock, with estimated total net worth ranging from approximately $6 million to $16.6 million depending on the source and valuation methodology. His insider trading activity has been most concentrated in the months of July (acquisitions) and April (dispositions), reflecting a disciplined approach to portfolio management across his various board and executive roles.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001519257 — 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 14 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.