Sagent Advisors CEO and leadership

Joe is the Co-Chief Executive Officer at Sagent Advisors. He joined the firm in 2013 as a Managing Director in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group, primarily responsible for the firm’s media and information services business. Joe has over 30 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Sagent, Joe spent ten years at Gleacher & Company and its predecessor firm where he was a Managing Director and Head of their TMT practice. In his career, he has been responsible for both the origination and execution of numerous M&A advisory and leveraged finance engagements, including advising Cogeco Cable on its $1.4 billion acquisition of Atlantic Broadband from ABRY Partners. He also advised the board of CKx on its $561 million sale to Apollo Global Management and New Mountain Capital on its acquisition of SNL Financial. Prior to joining Gleacher, Joe was at JP Morgan where he was a Managing Director and co-head of the firm’s North American Media Investment Banking group. In that role, he had responsibility for managing several of JP Morgan’s largest media relationships and advised on a number of advisory assignments, including representing Houghton Mifflin in their $2.2 billion sale to Vivendi Universal. He began his investment banking career in Morgan Stanley’s Merchant Banking Group. Joe graduated from Hofstra University with a BS in Economics and attended the Yale University School of Management.