Bio

Sanjay Chadda joined Canaccord Genuity through the acquisition of Petsky Prunier and co-heads one of the most active investment banking practices on Wall Street focused on the broader media, digital advertising and marketing, commerce, information and marketing technology and services industries. As a trusted advisor to CEOs and private equity sponsors, Sanjay has led more than 150 transactions during his career and has successfully completed over 50 transactions since the beginning of 2017 alone. In his engagements, he focuses on origination, due diligence, marketing, management, and negotiation of both M&A and private placement transactions in order to drive successful results for his clients. He is active in the firm's industry practice areas and brings to his engagements a unique combination of extensive sell-side and buy-side M&A experience as well as a deep understanding of business models of companies in the sectors he covers. Sanjay has been a speaker at Strategy Institute’s Digital Out-of-Home Media Conference and the DMA Annual Leader’s Summit. He has also been a guest lecturer at New York University’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies Interactive and Direct Marketing Program. Prior to joining Petsky Prunier in 1999, he served as a financial analyst in GE Capital’s Financial Management Program. Sanjay holds a B.S. from the Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University, where he graduated with honors. In addition to his investment banking responsibilities, Sanjay is responsible for personnel development and is active in the firm’s marketing, recruiting, and strategic initiative activities.