Vennette Ho spearheads Raymond James’ industry-leading Beauty, Personal Care, and Wellness practice. She focuses on mergers and acquisitions in addition to growth capital raises for young, rapidly growing companies. 
 
Over her career, Ms. Ho has executed nearly 70 M&A transactions across all sectors and categories of beauty, personal care, and wellness. Some of her notable transactions included the sale of K18 to Unilever, Summer Fridays to TSG Consumer Partners, Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare to Shiseido, DS&Durga to Manzanita Capital, Naturium to e.l.f. Beauty, Mielle to P&G, Therabreath to Church & Dwight, Briogeo to Wella Corporation, Paula's Choice to Unilever, Drunk Elephant to Shiseido, and Drybar to Helen of Troy, to name a few, and capital raises for companies such as OSEA, Salt & Stone, and Vegamour. 
 
Ms. Ho was named BeautyMatter’s Person Of The Year in 2024, one of the Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A by Mergers & Acquisitions magazine, and one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Beauty by WWD. 
 
Prior to joining Raymond James, Ms. Ho worked at Lazard in equity research and at Bloomingdale’s in merchandising. She is a member of the board of governors of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW).
 
She received her bachelor of arts from Brown University and master of business administration from Columbia Business School.