Clayton Deutsch

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Biography

Mr. Clayton Deutsch serves as Venture Partner & Advisor at 1414 Ventures. He had a 43-year career focused on financial services. Mr. Deutsch began his career in 1977 in Corporate Banking with Society Corporation, a predecessor to Key Corp. In 1980 Mr. Deutsch joined McKinsey & Company where he worked for 30 years before retiring from the firm in 2010 as a senior partner. Mr. Deutsch had been a partner for 25 years. While at McKinsey, Mr. Deutsch served a wide array of financial services companies and businesses around the world. Mr. Deutsch has deep experience in corporate banking, investment banking, consumer banking, securities and brokerage, asset management, wealth management and private banking, specialty finance, and insurance. Mr. Deutsch also served a number of private equity clients with investments in financial services. Mr. Deutsch led multiple client engagements focused on strategy development, operations improvement, M&A and divestiture, merger management and organization. From 2010 to 2018, Mr. Deutsch served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Boston Private Financial Holdings (NASDAQ: BPFH), a wealth management, investment management and private banking firm focused on the east coast and west coast. Since 2018, Mr. Deutsch has served as an advisor and active investor in several private companies working in fintech, cyber security/identity and wealth management. Mr. Deutsch has served on numerous non-profit boards in healthcare, education and the arts. Mr. Deutsch has a bachelor's degree in economics from Brown University and MBA from Case Western Reserve University.