John Carey Siegler
Managing Director and Head of Food, Consumer, and Retail Middle Market M&A at BMO Capital Markets
John Carey Siegler is a Managing Director and Head of Food, Consumer, and Retail Middle Market M&A at BMO Capital Markets. Mr. Siegler has been an investment banker for more than 35 years. Prior to his role at BMO, John was a Managing Director at Cascadia Capital, Piper Jaffray, Dain Raucher Wessels and Volpe Brown & Whelen, where he ran each firm’s private placement group and consumer/retail investment banking teams. Additionally, he founded and served as a managing partner for Capital Run LLC, which was merged into D.A. Davidson. Previously he was at Montgomery Securities and Paine Webber, Inc. in San Francisco.
Mr. Siegler has worked as a financial strategic advisor to leading food/beverage, consumer, technology, and retail/restaurant companies. He has advised on IPO’s, private placements, fairness opinions, and merger and acquisition transactions for a broad variety of companies including Nature Nate’s, Harvest Food Group, Qualitek, Three Bears Alaska, Vero Water, Ebbets Field Flannels, Black Bear Diner, Rogue Creamery, Bubbies Mochi, La Tortilla Factory, Mod Pizza, Cabela’s, Organic to Go, Pacific Coast Restaurants, Gart Sports, Wycoff Farms, Cool Cuts 4 Kids, Zoots, LeeAnn Chin, House of Blues, Seattle Hospitality, Image-X, Blue Rhino, Rosella’s Fruit & Produce, Tweeter, Crocs, Guitar Centers, Wild Oats Markets, Rainforest Café, Rock Bottom Restaurants, Cross Town Trader, Nordstrom.com, and WeddingChannel.com.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1977 and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1982.