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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
6 of 6 appear on more than one
3 people on two or more of them
Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes is an engineer and energy executive currently serving as Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of M Evo Global Acquisition Corp II (NASDAQ: MEVO), a SPAC focused on businesses in the critical minerals sector that closed its initial public offering raising $300 million under CEO Stephen Silver. She also serves as a director and Chief Operating Officer of Evolution Global Acquisition Corp (EVOX), another SPAC in the same sponsor family. Beyond her SPAC roles, she is Principal at Smoketree Resources, a critical minerals-focused family office she founded that deploys capital across the critical minerals value chain, from Series-B private entities to publicly listed corporations, and provides board and advisory services to aligned ventures. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Rice University Center for Energy Studies (Baker Institute), where she has authored working papers on topics including limiting adversarial capital in critical minerals supply chains, byproduct metals as a constraint and lever in critical minerals finance, and technical disclosure as a gating item in critical minerals finance.
Zumwalt-Forbes previously served in government as the U.S. Deputy Director for Batteries and Critical Materials at the Department of Energy's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), where she oversaw the deployment of approximately $6 billion in non-dilutive equity and roughly $10 billion in tax credits into the U.S. battery supply chain. Her deep entrepreneurial track record in energy supply chain ventures includes co-founding and serving as President of Black Mountain Metals (a private nickel mining company), Black Mountain Exploration (a private natural gas company that successfully IPO'd), and Black Mountain CarbonLock (a private carbon-negative company). She was also Co-Founder and Senior Advisor to Metals Acquisition Corp from 2021 to 2023, playing a key role in both its IPO and its business combination that resulted in MAC Copper Ltd. (NYSE: MTAL); Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd. (NYSE: HMY) subsequently acquired MAC Copper Ltd. in an all-cash deal valued at $1.03 billion in October 2025. She has also served as CEO of Black Mountain CarbonLock and Executive Director at REEcycle, which recycles rare earth elements from electronic waste. Earlier in her career, prior to joining Black Mountain in 2017, she held several lead engineering roles at ExxonMobil and XTO Energy, managing drilling, completions, and planning aspects of international shale exploration that laid the groundwork for over $1 billion in capital deployment.
Zumwalt-Forbes graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She grew up in Choctaw, Oklahoma, and after earning her Harvard MBA she founded Black Mountain Metals, raising $75 million to mine for high-tech battery ingredients. Her advisory and board engagements have included the Strategic Advisory Board for Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. V (NASDAQ: HCICU), the Female Venture Fund, TCU's Energy Institute, Polestar (Volvo's EV brand), and the University of Oklahoma's Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy / School of Petroleum Engineering. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy list in 2020 as the featured honoree, was a 2021 Oil & Gas Investor Forty Under 40 award winner, and was recognized as one of the Top 25 Women in Business in DFW by the Dallas Business Journal. She now resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband, daughter, and two cats, and her SEC-reported mailing address is in Farmers Branch, Texas.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002076466 — 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 9 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 6 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.