Ryan McDowell
Managing Director & Head of Business Development
CriticalPoint Partners
Ryan McDowell is a managing director with CriticalPoint Partners and the head of business development.  Since joining the firm nearly four years ago, McDowell has helped shape CriticalPoint into a uniquely multifaceted firm, serving the lower-middle market in a variety of capacities.  In addition to advising founder and family-led businesses through a sell-side lens, CriticalPoint Partners also provides institutions and private companies with outsourced business development and M&A services.  Because of this breadth of capabilities, the composition of CriticalPoint’s personnel looks markedly different than the traditional investment bank.
Led by McDowell, the CriticalPoint Business Development team numbers 15 investment professionals actively seeking opportunities to help companies achieve their M&A goals.  This goal-based approach to working with clients is rooted in McDowell’s previous career with Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking & Investment Group, where he was a partner on one of the largest Private Wealth teams in the country for 11 years.
