Family Office Investment 
Symposium 2025

JOE ONWUEGBUSI is responsible for leading the Deal Origination division, managing sponsor/non-sponsor client relationships and broadly originating and executing M&A transactions at CriticalPoint. He leverages his extensive multi-decade M&A experience across a diverse set of industries to help buy-side clients construct theses and outreach strategies to accelerate capital deployment and aid sell-side clients craft an effective exit strategy to yield the best outcome.
Prior to CriticalPoint, Joe spent 18 years in various execution and leadership roles within Platinum Equity. Most recently Joe was involved in firmwide corporate strategy & development, evaluating different strategic alternatives for the firm. Prior to that he was a deal team lead within the firm’s debut Small Cap Fund ($1.5B Fund) – focused on sourcing, negotiating and structuring new acquisition opportunities with less than $40 million in EBITDA based in North America. Over his tenure Joe has been directly involved in the acquisitions and/or sale of a number of assets across a range of industries.
Joe holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS degree in Business, with an emphasis in Finance, from the USC, where he graduated with Honors. He is a Registered Representative of CriticalPoint Partners, LLC and holds FINRA Series 63 & 79 licenses.