Joe Pellegrini Bio

Joe Pellegrini is a Managing Director in Baird’s Global Consumer Investment Banking Group. Based in Charlotte, Joe specializes in Active Lifestyles, Fitness & Mobility, Performance & Lifestyle Apparel and Footwear, Outdoor Recreation & Sporting Goods and Sportsman. Joe joined Baird in 2008 and focuses on Equity and M&A advisory services in the Consumer sector, with a particular focus in the performance sports, outdoor, fitness and wellness categories. Since 1989, Joe has held multiple senior leadership positions on Wall Street and executed numerous high-profile investment banking transactions for many of the industry-leading category creators, including Under Armour, North Face, VF Corporation, Lululemon, Beachbody, ON Running, Easton Sporting Goods, Callaway Golf, Wahoo, Canyon, Oakley Sunglasses, Riddell and Performance Health. Prior to entering the investment banking industry, Joe spent seven years in the NFL, playing as a starter for the New York Jets and the Atlanta Falcons. Joe received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA in finance from Columbia University.