Drew Ackert

Drew Ackert is a Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners in New York, where he advises technology clients on M&A and strategic matters. He brings more than two decades of experience advising technology companies across the U.S. and Europe, with particular depth in software, enterprise and communications technology, and semiconductors. He is a registered broker (FINRA CRD #2638658).

Before joining Perella Weinberg, Ackert was a Managing Director at Foros, which he joined in 2012 — the source of the `[hidden]` address in the stub data. At Foros he advised technology and media clients worldwide. Prior to Foros he spent much of his career at Goldman Sachs, where he served as Co-Head of European Technology Investment Banking (based in London), was a senior member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group, and sat on the European Raid Defense Advisory team. He began his career in the M&A group at J.P. Morgan in New York.

Ackert earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

> Important accuracy note: The supplied stub labeled Drew Ackert as an "Angel Investor" writing seed-round checks. Public sources do not support this. Every verifiable record describes him as an investment banker / M&A advisor (Perella Weinberg Partners, Foros, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan), not as an angel or seed-stage equity investor. The "Angel Investors / Seed Round" attribution appears to be a mislabeling and has not been reproduced as fact below.

• Ackert operates as an M&A / strategic advisor, not a check-writing angel or venture investor; there is no public evidence of a personal angel-investing thesis, check size, or seed-stage activity.
• His professional focus is advising technology companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and takeover-defense situations.
• Deep sub-sector concentration in software, enterprise and communications technology, and semiconductors, spanning U.S. and European markets.
• Notable specialty in raid / takeover-defense advisory, a capability carried over from his Goldman Sachs European Raid Defense Advisory role.