{"url_path":"/sec/ferau/8-k/2026-05-14/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-05-14","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2025401/0001213900-26-056579-index.html","accession_number":"0001213900-26-056579","cik":"0002025401","ticker":"FERA","issuer_name":"Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2025401/0001213900-26-056579-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0002025401","primary_entity_name":"Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I"},"word_count":302,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain\nOfficers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers.**\n\n** **\n\n**(a) Resignation of Chief Financial Officer.**\n\n** **\n\nOn May 8, 2026, Christopher Linn informed the\nBoard of Directors (the “Board”) of Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I, a Cayman Islands corporation (the “Company”),\nof his resignation as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. The Board accepted Mr. Linn’s resignation effective immediately.\n\n \n\nMr. Linn’s resignation was not the result\nof any disagreement with the Company regarding its operations, policies or practices, including any matter relating to the Company’s\nfinancial reporting or accounting practices.\n\n \n\n**(b) Appointment of New Chief Financial Officer.**\n\n** **\n\nOn May 8, 2026, the Board appointed Christopher\nNelson as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Nelson, age 29, has supported the Company’s accounting,\nfinance and reporting functions since the Company’s IPO and performed similar functions for the management team’s prior SPAC\nfrom 2021 to 2024.\n\n \n\nMr. Nelson previously served as an Investment Associate, then as Head\nof Research and later as Director of Finance at Fifth Era Partners, formerly Blockchain Coinvestors, a venture capital firm focused on\nearly-stage blockchain and artificial intelligence investments, where he had significant responsibility for investment research, evaluation\nof prospective investments, financial planning and firm operations, beginning in 2021. Prior to joining Fifth Era Partners, Mr. Nelson\nconsulted on executive and board compensation at Mercer, a Marsh McLennan company, beginning in 2019. Mr. Nelson received a Bachelor of\nBusiness Administration from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.\n\n \n\n1\n\n \n\n**SIGNATURE**\n\n \n\nPursuant\nto the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by\nthe undersigned hereunto duly authorized.\n\n \n\n \n**FIFTH ERA ACQUISITION CORP I**\n\n \n \n \n\nDate:\nMay 14, 2026\nBy:\n/s/ Mitchell\nMechigian\n\n \n \nName:\nMitchell Mechigian\n\n \n \nTitle:\nChief Executive Officer\n\n \n\n2"}