Joe Smith is a Managing Director at ACT Capital Advisors and brings over 20 years of M&A, strategy, and capital markets experience across Healthcare and Consumer Products. He has advised M&A transactions totaling over $50 billion and has frequently served in a leadership execution role for ~$20 billion worth of buy- and sell-side transactions.
Before ACT, Joe was a Partner responsible for deal execution at a new and rapidly growing stealth-mode healthcare private equity firm. Joe is the Founder and Managing Director of BioVerity Partners, LLC, providing fractional strategic and transactional services to small and medium-sized healthcare, biopharma, and investment companies. He has held senior-level strategy and transaction-focused roles at six biopharma companies, having played a key role in transformational growth, exits, or exit opportunities for each. Additionally, Joe brings significant transaction-oriented management consulting experience (Navigant, Easton Associates) and capital markets expertise (Lazard, Bear Stearns) to ACT.
Joe received an M.S. and B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Certification in Corporate Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time at UPenn, Joe was a member of the top-20-ranked NCAA Division I wrestling team.
