Sectors:
TechnologyLuke Schaeffer
Biography
Luke Schaeffer is a Global Leader of the Strategy and Transformation practices within FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance and Restructuring segment. Schaeffer specializes in enterprise transformation in transactions, turnarounds, and growth contexts. Services include strategy, revenue growth, operating model design, org design, cost take-out, process improvement, interim management, financial and operational restructuring, commercial and operational diligence, integration and separation planning, and M&A and capital raising.
Schaeffer has advised on transactions across the TMT sectors, including Entercom with CBS Radio, Refinery29 with Vice Media, and Lin Media with Media General. He has led transformations at CBS, multiple prominent digital media companies, growth turn-arounds at several technology unicorns, and an operating model and org redesign at a global telecom technology service provider. He has led turn-arounds and restructurings across the TMT sectors for the last two decades. He has held CRO, COO, CFO, and other interim executive positions in numerous companies.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Schaeffer was the Founding Managing Partner at West Lake Partners, a niche strategic and transaction advisory firm focused on expansion stage and middle-market companies in the communications and technology industries. Previously, Schaeffer worked for two private equity firms – Whitney & Co. and One Liberty Ventures – where he worked with, and invested in, communications, media, technology and services businesses. Schaeffer also spent several years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a founding member of FTI Consulting’s predecessor Telecom Industry practice.
Area of Expertise
– Industry: Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT)
– Investment Banking & Capital Solutions
– Performance Improvement
– Private Equity Advisory
– Restructuring / Turnaround Services
– Valuation
Group Overview
FTI Technology experts work alongside their clients’ privacy, legal, IT, and executive teams to understand the values and risks of data, as well as regulatory requirements and security obligations. As cloud-based data storage continues to proliferate, new communications platforms are adopted, and multi-jurisdictional regulations emerge, they provide defensible and repeatable solutions to address the specific needs of their global clients in the Technology, Telecom, and Media sectors.
FTI’s global teams are adept at addressing data risks and creating value for their clients’ organizations. They provide the expertise to run coordinated, international e-discovery efforts for investigation and litigation, as well as investigate the misappropriation of confidential information.
Firm Overview
Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting has grown to become a market-leading global consulting firm that brings together distinct capabilities and experts to serve as the trusted advisor to clients when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Each practice is a leader in its own right, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle—from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected crises and dynamic environments.
FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. With more than 6,900 employees located in 30 countries, FTI Consulting professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities.