Seth Deutsch

Operating Partner

Seth Deutsch is an Operating Partner at Ara Partners, where is focused on investments in the Build Environment, Blue Collar Trades, Legal Services and Professional Service companies. Seth is a proven growth leader, with a successful track record of delivering profitable growth for private equity-backed, founder/family-owned, and public companies. 

Seth previously served as the Board Member and Chief Growth Officer at a rapidly growing provider of finance and accounting services to the private equity industry. In a two-year span, he scaled the business from 50 to over 400 employees and successfully recapitalized the company, resulting in a 6.5X MOIC. Seth is also one of the foremost leaders in alternative business structures in the North American legal markets and served as a Board Chair and Operating Partner at a very successful roll up and recapitalization of law firms in the US and Canada. 

More recently, Seth founded Samson Partners Group to assist other founders and CEOs in achieving their goals. He has had the privilege of serving exceptional leaders. Through Samson, he sits on the boards of numerous family/founder-led and private equity-backed companies, including RUI (a restoration platform), Roofed Right America (a re-roofing platform), The CSM Group (an industrial construction management platform), and America’s Best (a re-flooring platform). He also acts as an outside independent member of the investment committees at several mid-market private equity firms. 

Over his distinguished career, Seth has had numerous successful exits and has architected nine buy-and-build platforms, executing over 70 platform and add-on acquisitions. He has an undergraduate degree from Rice University, and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.