Dr. Roy Salter is a co-founder and Senior Managing Partner at Virtu Global Advisors with more than 35 years of experience ideating, articulating and enumerating the forecast potential, value and transactional design in thousands of intellectual property (“IP”) based transactions and engagements within the global entertainment, media, literary, video game, sports and related intellectual property industries.
Globally known for creating and continuously enhancing the methods used to forecast and value IP assets, businesses and securities to best optimize capital and strategic transaction markets within the entertainment & media industry, Dr. Salter is regarded as one of the world’s leading solution-oriented financial & strategic advisors having facilitated thousands of transactions, engagements, and dispute-resolutions representing over $1 Trillion in combined asset and transaction values for more than 35 years.
Previous to Virtu Global Dr. Salter was a Senior Advisor and Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting where he established and led the Valuation & Financial Advisory Services Group (“VFAS”) and Fairness and Solvency Committee following FTI’s acquisition of The Salter Group in 2012; a managing director at Houlihan Lokey between 1988 and 2002 where he pioneered the analytic methods used to evaluate entertainment, media and broader IP based businesses, assets and investments globally; and a senior vice president with Wells Fargo’s entertainment commercial banking and capital markets groups between 1981 and 1988.
Awarded a Doctorate in 2020 for a groundbreaking study and thesis covering the reconciliation of often disputed business and IP asset, business and securities’ value indications, Dr. Salter regularly introduces innovative solution-oriented advice to capital and IP based strategic markets aimed at continuously optimizing capital and strategic market efficiencies and opportunities.
Outside of professional and scholastic pursuits, Roy and his family support several philanthropic causes, and enjoy hanging out and traveling along with cycling, swimming, the sun, the beach and the mountains.