Ken Firtel

Mr. Firtel is a Managing Director with Transom Capital Group. Prior to Transom, Mr. Firtel was a Vice President at Platinum Equity, and was responsible for evaluating, structuring, and negotiating transactions and transitioning and overseeing operations of portfolio companies. Before joining Platinum, Mr. Firtel was an associate in the Transactions Department of O'Melveny & Myers, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, investor and company-side private equity, venture capital and debt financing, joint ventures, and general representation of middle-market companies. Mr. Firtel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University, a Master of Science, Industrial Relations-Diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics, and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law. He played Varsity soccer at Yale and published an article in the Southern California Law Review. He serves on the Operating Committee of SCORE, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injuries.