Joe Nassif

Joe Nassif is a managing director in charge of Piper Sandler investment banking operations in West Virginia. He joined the firm in 2012 and has more than 28 years of investment banking and municipal advisory experience, completing more than $11.8 billion worth of taxable and tax-exempt municipal bond issues in the state.

Nassif has significant experience with a wide variety of issuers and projects, including general obligation and revenue bonds secured by annual appropriations, locally levied property taxes, incremental property taxes, municipal and excise sales taxes, state and local governmental leases, tolls, lottery revenue, water and wastewater, higher education revenue and hospital and healthcare revenue. Nassif has provided investment banking support to the state of West Virginia and its authorities, including the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority, Water Development Authority, Economic Development Authority, School Building Authority and Higher Education Policy Commission. Nassif has close working relationships with cities, county commissions, boards of education, universities and healthcare providers across West Virginia.

Before joining Piper Sandler, Nassif was a public finance investment banker with Raymond James & Associates Inc. as a director from 2008 to 2012 and with Ferris, Baker Watts Inc. as a vice president from 1998 to 2008. Nassif served as a White House administratively determined appointee with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 1998. From 1990 to 1994, he was a deputy project manager and economist for USAID’s economic and social data services project, where he provided statistical and quantitative analysis to support policymakers and economists in Washington, D.C., and more than 80 programs abroad. While at USAID, Nassif co-authored 10 publications.

Nassif holds a master’s degree in economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from West Virginia University. He also holds FINRA registrations for the Series 7 (general securities representative), Series 50 (municipal advisor representative), Series 52 (municipal securities representative), Series 53 (municipal securities principal) and Series 63 (uniform securities agent).