Rob Sternthal

Managing Director, Energy & Power
Investment Banking
Rob Sternthal joined the energy & power investment banking group at Piper Sandler in May 2021 and has over 20 years of investment banking experience. Sternthal helps lead the renewables & clean energy effort after having been responsible for financing more than $20 billion in renewable transactions since 2010.

Prior to joining the firm, Sternthal was responsible for building teams at two separate platforms, including the founding of CohnReznick Capital Markets, focused on the renewable energy and sustainability sectors. As such, Sternthal has been an active leader in the renewable energy sector for more than 10 years, speaking at numerous conferences globally as well as building one of the pre-eminent conferences in the sector.

Sternthal also spent more than eight years at Credit Suisse in New York and Tokyo where he led structured finance transactions for the Asset-Backed Securities and Commercial Real Estate Groups. Prior to that, Sternthal worked as an attorney for Milbank and the US Securities & Exchange Commission.

Sternthal graduated from Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and Temple University School of Law with a Juris doctorate.