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none appears on more than one
Scott Phillip Scharfman, born May 14, 1962, in New York City, is a seasoned finance and investment professional currently serving as an independent director on the board of NewHold Investment Corp IV (NHIV), a blank check company that priced a $175 million IPO. He has also served since September 2024 as an independent member of the board of directors of NewHold Investment Corp III, another SPAC in the process of searching for a business combination target. In addition to his SPAC roles, Scharfman has served since October 2021 as a board member and advisor at Jupiter Intelligence, Inc., a firm specializing in the analysis of climate change risks that helps major financial institutions integrate physical and extreme weather risk into core financial decision-making. He is based in New York, NY.
Scharfman's career spans several decades across investment banking, private equity, and corporate finance. He began his career as a Vice President at The Blackstone Group before moving to Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he served as Managing Director in the Equity Capital Markets Department from 1994 to 2000. He then served as Chief Financial Officer of Mercata, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, followed by a stint as Managing Director at Robertson Stephens from 2001 to 2002. From 2006 to 2019, he was a Managing Director at Mill Road Capital, a private investment firm, where he spent thirteen years. His extensive board service includes roles as Chairman of RG Barry Corp and director or significant shareholder positions at numerous public companies, including Ecology and Environment Inc (a 10 percent owner), School Specialty Inc (director and 10 percent owner), Noodles & Co (10 percent owner), Destination Maternity Corp, Cache Inc, American Pacific Corp, Lifetime Brands Inc, National Technical Systems Inc, Kona Grill Inc, Physicians Formula Holdings Inc, Galaxy Nutritional Foods Inc, Feldt Manufacturing Co Inc, Rubio's Restaurants Inc, and SM&A.
Scharfman holds an A.B. degree, cum laude, from Princeton University, with a concentration in Psychology/Neuroscience. His insider trading activity has been substantial, with an estimated net worth of approximately $190 million based on reported shares across multiple companies. His most active year for acquiring shares was 2016, with 33 total transactions, and his largest acquisition year by value was 2018, when he paid approximately $16.9 million for 988,876 shares. That same year, he cashed out on over 4 million shares for a total of approximately $37.5 million, representing his largest year by trade value. His most active year for disposing of shares was 2011, totaling 8 transactions. Scharfman's deep expertise in investment banking, finance, equity capital markets, and corporate governance has made him a valued independent director across both SPAC vehicles and operating companies, bringing extensive leadership experience to the NewHold platform.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001435257 — 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 4 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 4 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.