Bio

Osifo Akhuemonkhan initially joined Lazard in 2011 and is a Managing Director in the Industrials group. His transaction experience spans several sub-sectors across the industrials landscape. Osifo has advised on a range of domestic and cross-border M&A assignments for both strategics and private equity clients. From May 2020 to December 2021, Osifo was the Head of Strategy and Corporate Development and, led the Materials Technologies business unit at CMC Materials (f/k/a Cabot Microelectronics). At CMC Materials, Osifo had broad responsibilities that spanned strategy formulation, M&A ideation and execution as well as providing thought partnership to the leadership team and Board of Directors. Osifo graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and received his MBA from Columbia Business School where he graduated with Dean's Honors.