Oni Chukwu

Oni Chukwu is a technology entrepreneur, longtime enterprise-software executive, and angel investor. He is best known as the President and CEO of etouches (later rebranded Aventri), a cloud-based B2B event-management SaaS company, a role he held from September 2013 until 2020. During his tenure he led the company's transformation, rebrand, product innovation, M&A strategy, and international expansion, driving roughly 16x revenue growth and culminating in a majority sale to private-equity firm HGGC. He then served about six months as Executive Chairman of Aventri's board following the acquisition.

Before Aventri, Chukwu was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Triple Point Technology, a commodities/fintech enterprise-software company, from 2006 to 2013. There he helped drive seven consecutive years of high-growth revenue and eight cross-border acquisitions, work that culminated in a roughly $1 billion sale of the company in 2013. Earlier in his career he served as CFO of Healthcare Software Synergies (prior to its UnitedHealth acquisition) and of LexBridge Corporation, building a track record as a CFO and operating executive across five enterprise-software companies. Across his career he is credited with raising more than $3.5 billion in investor capital and leading four software companies to public and private exits.

Chukwu holds an MBA from the University of New Haven, where he also received an honorary Ph.D. in Business Administration and has served on the Board of Governors. He sits on numerous corporate boards, including AvidXchange (Nasdaq: AVDX, since March 2024), Invafresh/Invatron Systems (a Tailwind Capital company, since 2020), Opus Agency (an ABRY Partners company, since 2021), and Pole Star Space Applications / Pole Star Global (since 2021). He previously chaired Exago (ExagoBI) until its 2021 acquisition by insightsoftware, and served on the board of Paya (formerly Nasdaq: PAYA) from 2021 to 2023.

Beyond his corporate and investing work, Chukwu is the founder of the AfricaPlan Foundation, which fosters entrepreneurship and supports underprivileged youth in West Africa through financing, coding bootcamps, business advice, and leadership development.

• Invests personal capital as an angel investor, typically at the seed stage, in exchange for equity.
• Strong bias toward domains he has operated in: enterprise/B2B software (SaaS), fintech, business intelligence, and event technology.
• Values companies with strong culture, product innovation, disciplined operations, and a credible M&A/expansion path — the same levers he used to grow Aventri ~16x and scale Triple Point through eight cross-border acquisitions.
• Brings an operator-and-CFO lens: he has raised $3.5B+ in capital and led four companies to exits, so he gravitates to founders building toward durable, scalable, exit-ready enterprise businesses.
• Also deploys capital and mentorship philanthropically through the AfricaPlan Foundation, backing early-stage founders in Africa and elsewhere.