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James L. Nelson is a seasoned public company executive and board director who currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. III, a special purpose acquisition company, a position he has held since March 2026. He also serves on the board of directors of Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II (NasdaqGM: DRDB), another SPAC, where he has been a member since December 2024 and holds the position of Chairman of the audit committee. His involvement with the Roman DBDR platform dates back to December 2020, when he was appointed as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DBDR), the predecessor SPAC in the series, a role he held through 2021. In addition to his SPAC roles, Mr. Nelson has served as a director of Chewy, Inc. since July 2021, bringing extensive financial and governance expertise to the pet e-commerce company's board.
Mr. Nelson's executive career spans several decades across financial services, real estate, and specialty investment banking. From 2017 to 2024, he served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Global Net Lease, Inc. (NYSE: GNL), a publicly traded real estate investment trust, having joined the board in March 2017 and served on its audit committee from March to July 2017. Prior to that, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eaglescliff Corporation, a specialty investment banking, consulting, and wealth management firm, from 1986 to 2009. From 1995 to 1999, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of Orbitex Management, Inc., a financial services company, and from 1998 to 2003, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orbit Aviation, Inc., a company engaged in acquiring Boeing business jets for private and corporate clients. Most recently, from March 2024 to August 2025, Mr. Nelson served as Senior Advisor at MGM Resorts International, a global entertainment and hospitality company.
Mr. Nelson's public company board service is extensive and diverse. He served as a director of Xerox Holdings Corporation from 2021 to 2023, including as Chairman from 2022 to 2023. He was a director of Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. from 2014 to 2021, serving as Lead Director from 2019 to 2021. He served on the board of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. from 2019 to 2020, where he was a member of the audit committee. His longest-tenured board role was at Icahn Enterprises G.P. Inc., the general partner of Icahn Enterprises L.P., where he served as a director and audit committee member from June 2001 to March 2019. He was also a director of New York REIT, Inc. from 2015 to 2017. Earlier in his career, he held board positions at American Entertainment Properties, Tropicana Entertainment, and Take Two Interactive Software. His broad experience with complex strategic transactions, audit committee leadership, and a wide variety of business models has made him a valued voice across the technology, real estate, gaming, nutrition, and financial services sectors.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001424471 — 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 37 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 17 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.