Bio

Glen Clarke is a Managing Director within Baird’s Consumer & Retail Group and leads the firm's Food & Beverage practice. Mr. Clarke is a senior investment banker with 22 years of significant transaction and advisory experience providing general corporate finance and M&A advice primarily to food and beverage companies across a variety of industry verticals and formats. Glen joined Baird from KeyBanc Capital Markets where he was a Managing Director in the Chicago office, leading the firm's Food & Beverage Investment Banking practice. Before joining KeyBanc, Glen spent time at Duff and Phelps and with Brown Gibbons and Lang (BGL), where he was a Managing Director and Principal responsible for heading up the firm's Food & Beverage investment banking practice. Prior to BGL, Glen spent 16 years at Bank of Montreal Harris Bank, where in his last role he was as a Managing Director and Head of the Diversified Food Group within Bank of Montreal's Investment Banking Group. Glen received his M.B.A. from DePaul University and his B.A. from Villanova University