Services
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Capital Advisory
- Restructuring & Special Situations
Sectors
- Business Services
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Diversified Industrials
- Financial Services
Affiliations
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS)
- Member of the Board, Poseidon Water
- Member, Executive Committee, Water Buffalo Club
- Young Presidents' Organization
- Advisory Board Member, RAND Ctr., Corp. Governance
- Orion International Advisors
Biography
Prior to joining legacy FocalPoint, now B. Riley Securities, Mr. Deutschman served as the Vice Chairman of Cappello Global, where he focused on providing both capital markets and M+A advisory services to middle market companies across a variety of industries. Mr. Deutschman has extensive experience in working through complex and troubled situations. Most notably, from 2004-2015, Mr. Deutschman served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. (formerly Enron Corp.), a position he assumed upon Enron's 2004 emergence from bankruptcy; through his tenure, the creditors of Enron received in excess of $25 billion in proceeds from the liquidation of the Enron estate. Mr. Deutschman currently serves as the Chairman of Digital Turbine, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPS), a position he has held since 2015. Mr. Deutschman also formerly served as the Chairman of the Board of First Bank of Beverly Hills, F.S.B., as a board member of MPG Office Trust (NYSE), as a board member of Brookfield DTLA Fund Office Trust Investor Inc., and as a board member of Beverly Hills Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ). An active speaker on accessing capital, corporate governance, and distressed opportunities, Mr. Deutschman began his professional career in 1982 as a practicing attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles. Mr. Deutschman currently serves on the board and is a past president of the Water Buffalo Club, a non-profit organization he joined at its origination in 1987, which helps kids in Los Angeles who are in need.
Mr. Deutschman earned his undergraduate degree, with honors, in political science at Haverford College, and a law degree from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.