Telly Zachariades

Telly Zachariades, based in New York, is a managing director and global chairman of the chemicals group at Piper Sandler.

He has more than 40 years of investment banking experience – all in the chemicals industry and almost all in M&A advisory.
  
Zachariades was one of the co-founders of The Valence Group in December 2007, a boutique M&A-focused investment bank, which in the last 17 years, has completed 115 transactions aggregating $95.0 billion in enterprise value and $400.0 million in advisory fees. During this time, he has personally led more than 60 of these transactions worth more than $60.0 billion. The Valence Group was acquired in April 2020, and became the chemicals investment banking group of Piper Sandler.
  
Prior to Valence, Zachariades spent seven years as global head of Bear Stearns' chemicals investment banking practice and before that, 17 years at JP Morgan Chase as a senior investment banker in both London and New York covering the chemicals industry. He began his career as a marine engineer at Conoco from 1981-1983, during which Conoco was acquired by DuPont.
  
Zachariades earned a bachelor's degree in naval architecture in 1979 and a master's degree in engineering in 1980 from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.