Bio

Melissa French is a managing director in the Piper Sandler consumer investment banking group. She focuses on providing investment banking and M&A advisory services to consumer companies. French has more than nine years of transaction experience and is involved in a full range of investment banking activities, including public equity offerings, private capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, convertible debt and recapitalizations. French graduated magna cum laude from Macalester College with a bachelor’s degree in economics.