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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.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
5 of 9 appear on more than one
1 person on two or more of them
Menachem "Menny" Shalom is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with over 20 years of leadership experience spanning fintech, defense technology, and enterprise software. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Kochav Defense Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: KCHV), a blank check company focused on acquiring businesses in the defense and aerospace industries, a role he has held since the company's inception in 2024. Kochav Defense Acquisition Corp. priced its $253 million IPO on May 28, 2025, with Kingswood serving as left lead underwriter, and the SPAC carries an 18-month initial tenor with two three-month extension periods. Shalom is also the sole managing member of Kochav Defense Acquisition Management and holds approximately 26.1% ownership in the SPAC. He is additionally CEO and Chairman of SC II Acquisition Corp., a position he assumed around June 30, 2025. Based in Israel, Shalom operates across both Israeli and U.S. markets, with Kochav headquartered at 575 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017.
Since September 2024, Shalom has served as CEO and a director of Nukkleus (NASDAQ: NUKK), a public company focused on identifying, acquiring, and transforming high-potential businesses across defense, financial services, real estate, industrial, and technology sectors. He is also Chairman and CEO of T3 Defense Inc. (OTC: DFNS), where under his supervision the company completed several acquisitions including Star 26, Tiltan Software Engineering, Nimbus Drones, and ITS. In January 2026, T3 Defense approved a new consulting agreement through Billio Ltd. for Shalom to continue as CEO, with a base salary of $60,000 per month, a $250,000 bonus for past services, target cash bonuses of 50% of base salary, quarterly share grants, and a $175,000 relocation grant should he relocate to the United States. Earlier in his career, Shalom founded Hold Me Ltd. in 2008 and has held the titles of Director, Chief Executive, and Financial Officer there since 2017. He also previously held a pre-sale management role at a software company and appears in four SEC Form D filings as an executive officer associated with two companies with $50 million in total offerings. Additionally, he holds an active directorship in India at Mea Motomova India Private Limited, joined in August 2023.
Shalom's track record reflects a pattern of building and scaling public and private companies through strategic acquisitions and capital formation, particularly at the intersection of defense technology and fintech. His leadership of Kochav Defense Acquisition Corp. represents a continuation of his focus on the defense sector, leveraging his experience from T3 Defense and Nukkleus to identify and execute business combinations in aerospace and defense. The Kochav board, appointed in connection with the IPO on May 27, 2025, includes independent directors Doron Dovrat, Yair Ramati, and Gill Zaphrir, with Zaphrir chairing the Audit Committee and Ramati chairing the Compensation Committee. While specific educational background details were not disclosed in available sources, Shalom's career demonstrates deep operational expertise in managing development-stage and acquisition-driven growth companies across multiple jurisdictions and public market listings.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002030245 — 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 12 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 8 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.