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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.
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1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one
John C. Small is an accomplished financial executive and SPAC veteran based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with over 25 years of experience across capital markets, investment management, and corporate finance. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: DRDB), a $200 million blank-check company targeting cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and fintech businesses with enterprise values between $300 million and $1.5 billion. Roman DBDR II priced its IPO on December 12, 2024, listing on Nasdaq under the symbol DRDBU, with B. Riley Securities as sole bookrunner. The SPAC was led by CEO and Chairman Dixon Doll Jr., Managing Director of Longstreet Ventures, alongside Dr. Donald G. Basile as Chief Technology Officer. On September 30, 2025, Small resigned as CFO of Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II, according to an SEC filing disclosed on October 3, 2025. Small had served as CFO of Roman DBDR II since its inception and previously held the same role at Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. (Roman DBDR I), which successfully completed its business combination with CompoSecure (Nasdaq: CMPO) in December 2021, delivering a roughly 67% return from the $10 offer price. He also currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of AiAdvertising, Inc. (OTC: AIAD) and BigWattDigital LLC, a privately held bitcoin mining company, and has served as CFO of GPGI Inc (GPGI) since November 2020.
Small's career spans a broad range of senior finance and operating roles across technology, media, blockchain, and investment management. He served as CFO of Monsoon Blockchain Corporation from December 2019 to January 2022, Chief Operating Officer and CFO of Quanterra Capital Management LP from May 2019 to December 2020, and Chief Operating Officer of Diamond Standard from January 2021 to June 2021. From October 2016 to May 2019, he was Senior Vice President of Finance at Tsunami XR, and from April to September 2016 he served as COO of Mode Media (formerly Glam Media). He was CFO of Viggle, Inc. (Nasdaq: VGGL) from September 2012 to October 2015. Earlier in his career, Small joined GLG Partners in April 2000 as a senior asset manager responsible for telecom, media, technology, and renewable energy investments for the GLG North American Opportunity Fund, and also served as president of the GLG North America office through August 2011. Before GLG, he worked as a telecom and media analyst at Ulysses Management from January 1997 to March 2000 and as a telecom analyst at Odyssey Partners from March 1996 to January 1997. He began his career as an equity research analyst at Dillon Read from January 1992 to September 1993 and then at Morgan Stanley from October 1993 to February 1996.
Small holds a BA in Economics with a concentration in International Relations from Cornell University. His expertise encompasses data-driven analysis, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, FP&A, investment research, investor relations, expense management, strategic planning, and business development. He has previously served on the boards of directors of Loyalty Alliance, Inc., PayEase Ltd., INFINIA Corporation, ViSole Energy, Inc., New Millennium Solar Equipment Co, ShortList Media Ltd., DraftDay Inc., and Spinvox Ltd. His insider ownership footprint, per SEC filings, includes reporting ownership in GPGI Inc, AiAdvertising Inc, and Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II. The Roman DBDR team had also filed for two additional SPACs, Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition II and Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition III, before both listings were declared abandoned by the SEC in early 2023, underscoring the team's sustained ambition in the SPAC arena.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001555267 — 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.