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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.
1 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
4 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 3 vehicles carry no counterparty filing we have read
4 people on two or more of them
Gary A. Simanson is a seasoned financial services executive and serial SPAC sponsor who currently serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Coincheck Group N.V., a position he assumed following the closing of the business combination with Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV, Inc. in December 2024. He is also the founder, CEO, and Director of Thunder Bridge Capital, LLC, a position he has held since 2017, where he heads the Investment Committee, Credit Committee, and Enterprise Risk Committee, focusing on sourcing equity and debt opportunities in the financial services and FinTech sectors. Additionally, he has served as Managing Director of First Capital Group, L.L.C., an investment banking advisory firm specializing in bank mergers and acquisitions and capital raising, since 1997. Simanson is currently leading Thunder Bridge Capital Partners V, Inc., his fifth blank check company, which targets the fintech industry and filed for a $261 million IPO. Based in the Washington, D.C. and Great Falls, Virginia areas, Simanson is a licensed attorney in New York and Colorado and brings over three decades of experience in banking, law, and capital markets to his current leadership roles.
Simanson has an extensive track record of forming and executing SPAC mergers. His first SPAC, Thunder Bridge Acquisition, Ltd. (NASDAQ: TBRG), went public in June 2018 and completed its business combination with omnichannel payments provider Repay Holdings (NASDAQ: RPAY) in July 2019. He subsequently led Thunder Bridge Acquisition II, Ltd. (NASDAQ: THBR), serving as an executive officer and director from 2019 to 2021; this vehicle merged with automotive semiconductor company indie Semiconductor (NASDAQ: INDI) in June 2021. He also led Thunder Bridge Capital Partners III Inc. as president and director from 2020 until its liquidation in December 2023. His most recent SPAC success came with Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV, Inc. (NASDAQ: THCP), which he led from inception through its December 2024 merger with Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $31.6 million to the combined company and listing Coincheck Group N.V. on Nasdaq under the ticker "CNCK."
Prior to his focus on SPACs and Thunder Bridge Capital, Simanson built a deep foundation in banking and financial advisory. From 2015 to 2017, he founded and managed Endeavor Capital Management and related entities, targeting investments in the marketplace lending industry. From 2013 to 2015, he restructured First Avenue National Bank, serving as Director, President, and CEO. Earlier, he was the Founder, Vice Chairman, and Chief Strategic Officer of Community Bankers Trust Corporation, a $1.2 billion bank holding company for Essex Bank, where he served in multiple executive roles including President, CEO, and CFO from its inception in 2005 to 2011, overseeing its initial public offering as a SPAC and subsequent bank acquisitions. His earlier career includes serving as Senior Vice President in bank M&A and capital markets at FTN Financial Capital Markets (1998-1999), Associate General Counsel at Union Planters Corporation (1992-1995), and as a practicing attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP (1989-1992). He has also served on the board of First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. and as a Senior Advisor to Alpine Capital Bank.
Simanson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and an MBA in Finance, both from George Washington University, and a Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in enterprise risk management, bank M&A, and the FinTech sector, frequently speaking internationally on these topics, including the use of blockchain for international asset selection and treasury management. His unique blend of legal expertise, investment banking acumen, and operational leadership in community banking has positioned him as a prominent figure in the intersection of traditional financial
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001339459 — 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 123 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 42 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.