Piper Sandler Companies announced the addition of Christian Pesci as a managing director within the healthcare investment banking group. Pesci joins Piper Sandler with more than 15 years of M&A advisory experience focused on the healthcare services space. He has advised on a wide range of transactions for founder and private equity owned companies.

He will continue to cover the healthcare services space at Piper Sandler and will be based in the firm's San Francisco office. Prior to joining the firm, Pesci was a managing director at Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets for over 10 years. He served on the M&A advisory practice, focusing on multisite, physician services, dental service organizations and animal health and vet companies.

Prior to Cain, he was an investment banker at Morgan Keegan. Pesci earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Colgate University.