Joseph Acevedo

Joseph Acevedo is Managing Director and Co-Head of Portfolio Management for the BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund (BIO) – a multi asset strategy that invests in private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate – within BlackRock Equity Private Markets. 

Joseph has over 25 years of financial services experience with a focus on private market investment. He has served as board director or observer to portfolio companies across the healthcare, business services, media, technology, and financial services industries. He is currently board chair of Lift RetroFitness FTX and Lone Peak Dental Group; and board director of Synergy Equipment. He has executed direct private investment transactions across buyouts, growth capital, credit and infrastructure.

Joseph was previously a co-founder and Managing Director of MoonSail Capital, LLC, a lower middle market private equity firm, where he was responsible for sourcing, due diligence, structuring, and monitoring of direct investments. Joseph was a Principal at Pharos Capital Group where he held primary responsibility for managing transaction teams, leading due diligence efforts, and monitoring portfolio companies.  Prior thereto, Joseph was Director of Business Development at Univision, where he launched and led new business initiatives. At JP Morgan and SG Cowen, Mr. Acevedo was an Associate in the Latin American equity research group, covering the media, telecommunications, mining and steel industries. He began his career in 1996 as a Financial Analyst structuring fixed income transactions for government municipalities at Merrill Lynch.

Joseph graduated from Harvard College with an A.B., cum laude, in Government and holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School, where he was a Robert A. Toigo Fellow.  He is a Board Member of the New America Alliance (NAA) and former board member of the Toigo Alumni Endowment.