Leah Viault

Leah Viault is a managing director within the financial strategies group and hedging services team at Piper Sandler, where she advises financial institutions on interest-rate derivatives, hedging strategies and broader balance-sheet management. Her expertise includes fixed-income securities selection, interest-rate risk management, capital raising and loan sales.

Before joining Sandler O’Neill & Partners L.P. in 2015, Viault spent 15 years at JPMorgan Chase, working with financial institution clients. She also worked in JPMorgan’s CIO/Treasury group, focusing on capital raising, liquidity management, fixed-income securities sales, derivatives and repo execution and general asset-liability management.

Viault earned a bachelor’s degree in international business and French from Lehigh University and is a CFA charterholder.