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Sudhin R. Shahani is a serial entrepreneur, venture investor, and SPAC sponsor who currently serves as Chairman of the Board of FutureCorp Space Acquisition 1 (NYSE: FTRA), a blank check company targeting the global space economy and adjacent industries. He has held the chairmanship since April 2026 and was appointed to the board at the company's inception in March 2026. FutureCorp Space Acquisition 1 completed its IPO in June 2026, raising $230 million in gross proceeds through the sale of 23,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit, with Cantor Fitzgerald serving as sole book-running manager. Shahani is also a member of FutureCorp LLC, which manages Pubco Acquisition Corp LLC, the sponsor's managing member, giving him indirect voting and investment discretion over the sponsor's 5,750,000 Class B founder shares. The SPAC's board includes independent directors David J. Anderman, Shawn K. Pelsinger, and John R. Tuttle, with Joshua B. Marks serving as CEO and CFO.
Shahani is best known as the co-founder of Surf Air Mobility (NYSE: SRFM), the Los Angeles-based regional air mobility platform that launched in 2011 as a subscription flight service and later went public. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Surf Air Global Limited from 2013 until July 2023, after which he continued as a director and board member of the public company. In May 2025, Shahani demonstrated continued confidence in the company by purchasing 408,163 shares of Surf Air stock at market rates in a private transaction valued at approximately $1 million, citing the early impact of the company's transformation plan. Prior to founding Surf Air, Shahani was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Anthem Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where he worked with portfolio companies, led investments, and served on the boards of Madefire (July 2013 to December 2018) and Panna (March 2012 to April 2019), both of which were sold to Discovery Networks.
Before his tenure at Anthem, Shahani co-founded Musicane Corp. in 2004, a digital music and social shopping network, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until 2009. He has also founded additional companies in the music, entertainment, and education fields, including RTG Animate and Wizardflex Films. In 2006, Businessweek magazine named him one of the Top 25 Under 25 Young Entrepreneurs in the United States. His career spans approximately 18 years in leadership roles across technology, aviation, and media ventures.
Shahani holds a B.S. with honors in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship from Babson College. He is based in Santa Monica, California, and maintains an active presence in the Southern California technology and venture capital community. Through his roles at Surf Air Mobility and FutureCorp Space Acquisition 1, Shahani has built a track record spanning consumer subscription models, regional aviation, electrified aircraft technology, and now the space economy, positioning him at the intersection of transportation innovation and public market investing.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001984003 — 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 6 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 5 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.