---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-011509"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADAC"
cik: "0002083002"
company_name: "American Drive Acquisition Co"
filed_at: "2026-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T04:11:27.659347+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ADACU appoints Nitin Kumar to board; units begin separate trading Feb 9

## Summary
- Board size increased to six; Nitin Kumar appointed Class I director effective Feb 6, 2026.
- Kumar is co-founder of AlphaVols, a risk management platform; previously at Laurion Capital, Hutchin Hill, Citadel.
- Received 25,000 Class B ordinary shares from sponsor in connection with director service.
- Units may separate into Class A ordinary shares (ADAC) and warrants (ADACW) starting Feb 9, 2026.
- Unseparated units continue trading under ADACU; Cantor Fitzgerald was IPO bookrunner.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-011509
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADAC
- cik: 0002083002
- company_name: American Drive Acquisition Co
- filed_at: 2026-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2083002/000110465926011509/0001104659-26-011509-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2083002/000110465926011509/tm264530d1_8k.htm

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