Osifo Akhuemonkhan

Managing Director

New York

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Osifo Akhuemonkhan joined Lazard in 2011 and is a Managing Director in the Industrials group. His transaction experience spans multiple sub-sectors across the industrials landscape, and he has advised on a broad range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions for both strategic and private equity clients.

From May 2020 to December 2021, Osifo served as Head of Strategy and Corporate Development and led the Materials Technologies business unit at CMC Materials (formerly Cabot Microelectronics). In this role, he was responsible for strategy formulation, M&A origination and execution, and providing strategic counsel to the executive leadership team and Board of Directors.

Osifo holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he graduated with Dean’s Honors.