Luke S. Schaeffer

Luke Schaeffer is the Global Leader of FTI Consulting’s Strategy & Transformation practices. Mr. Schaeffer specializes in enterprise transformation, transactions, turnarounds and growth contexts. His services include strategy, revenue growth, operating model design, organizational 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. Mr. Schaeffer focuses on building the firm’s end-to-end transformation capabilities that enable us to create value for our clients as their trusted partner, from strategy through execution. Prior to his current role, he built the firm’s Telecom, Media and Technology (“TMT”) industry practice globally.

For more than two decades, Mr. Schaeffer has worked on large scale transactions across TMT. His enterprise-wide transformation work has spanned major media companies, technology unicorns and global telcos. Turnaround and restructuring engagements Mr. Schaeffer has advised on include video game developers, multiple entertainment and broadcast company restructurings, publishers and telcos. Mr. Schaeffer has also filled numerous interim executive roles in turnaround and transformative situations.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. 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, Mr. 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. He also spent several years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a founding member of FTI Consulting’s predecessor Telecom Industry practice.