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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.
3 vehicles on file, newest listing first
2 of 10 appear on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
Qian Xu serves as an Independent Director of Southern Cross Acquisition I Corp. (Nasdaq: NCOO.U), a blank-check company incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, or similar business combination. He was appointed to the board effective July 21, 2026, in connection with the company's listing on the Nasdaq Global Market, and the board determined that he qualifies as an independent director under Nasdaq listing standards and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Xu serves on both the audit committee and the compensation committee. He received 2,000 founder shares in connection with his appointment and holds approximately 0.016% ownership in the SPAC, with reported annual compensation of approximately $19,700. Notably, the company's S-1 filing highlights that Xu is the only founder of Southern Cross Acquisition I located within the United States, while all other executive officers, directors, and the sponsor's sole shareholder are based outside the country, in locations including New Zealand, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore.
In his primary professional capacity, Xu is a Director at AlixPartners, based in the firm's Silicon Valley office, where he specializes in the Automotive & Industrial practice. He brings 27 years of experience in the automotive and consulting industries, with deep expertise in company transformation and end-to-end enterprise operation improvement, including M&A, smart manufacturing, supply chain optimization, product life-cycle management, and organizational transformation. His consulting career has spanned a wide range of industries—automotive, technology, and electronics—and he has led comprehensive projects across the entire automotive value chain, from OEMs and suppliers to aftermarket and dealerships, as well as new energy vehicles and autonomous driving. Having spent most of his career in both the United States and China, Xu has also led engagements in Thailand, Malaysia, and Korea.
Prior to his consulting career, Xu began in the automotive industry with stints at General Motors, Ford, and Caterpillar, focusing on product development and procurement management. His career highlights include leading the operational turnaround for a global tier-1 auto supplier with $30 million in identified annual savings; directing China plant operation improvement and cost optimization for a German tier-1 supplier with $15 million in annual savings; leading product development for a leading Chinese commercial vehicle OEM's latest heavy-duty truck platform; and overseeing the setup of a new energy vehicle R&D center for a French auto OEM. He also led holistic operation improvement across Asia Pacific for a Canadian electronics manufacturer spanning eight plants in four countries, achieving $30 million in annual savings, and served as interim controller for a Thailand steel manufacturer during its restructuring, successfully helping the client restructure its debt and resume normal operations after a two-year halt.
Xu holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross Business School, an MS from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, and a BS from Beijing Institute of Technology. His LinkedIn profile describes him as a seasoned management consultant with 15 years in management consulting and 10 years of industry experience in automotive. He is based in the United States, consistent with his AlixPartners Silicon Valley office location and the S-1 filing's characterization of him as the sole U.S.-based founder of Southern Cross Acquisition I Corp.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001879076 — 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 32 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.