Christopher Nesbitt

Chris Nesbitt is a founding partner of Focus Acquisition Partners, a boutique mergers and acquisition firm serving middle market clients. At Focus, Chris is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with a broad array of clients across multiple industry sectors including financial services, medical devices, manufacturing, consumer products and business services. Chris has managed and completed transactions in excess of $1.5 billion throughout North America, Australia and Asia. He is a veteran entrepreneur and a former commercial banker. During his career Chris has owned and successfully grown a series of middle market manufacturing and business services companies. He was a founder of the Flagship Bank (Worcester, MA) which grew into a $500 million publicly traded firm and he is an active private investor. Drawing upon this broad and diverse background, he has held senior leadership positions for over 40 years. He is the former president and CEO of SciTech Plastics Group, LLC, a $60 million vertically integrated manufacturer of medical and commercial devices, which is now part of Vaupell Holdings, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Bakelite Co. Prior to that, he was the founder and owner of the Brookfield Group, which he transformed from a single facility into a precision manufacturing firm with seven plant locations New England, the Midwest and Texas. Chris also served as the COO of Nanlo Publishing, a regional community newspaper printing and publishing firm, and was a Senior Vice President at Shawmut Bank, a multi-billion dollar Boston bank holding company. Chris is a graduate of Boston University and of the Stonier School of Graduate Banking. Chris holds two patents for flexible, medical dispensing devices, is a published author and an active community volunteer and fundraiser including the former Board Chair of several organizations including the Upper Valley Land Trust, the Friends of the Brownsville General Store (now known as the Brownsville Butcher & Pantry) and Music Worcester, as well as a co-founder and Treasurer of the Brownsville Base Camp. He is married, a resident of West Windsor, VT and enjoys running, mountain biking and skiing.