Bio

Ben Volden is a director at Piper Sandler, focused on providing investment banking and M&A advisory services to consumer companies. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, Volden worked at BMO Capital Markets and Houlihan Lokey in their respective M&A groups. In addition to his time in investment banking, he also worked in corporate development at Cargill, where his responsibilities included evaluating and executing M&A transactions, joint ventures and corporate divestitures. Volden earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Iowa State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Minnesota.