Experience

Innovation Capital

• United States
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Partner, President and Managing Director

  • Jan 2004 - Present

  Innovation Capital is a leading boutique investment bank dedicated to representing mid-market clients in the gaming, leisure, restaurant, and retail industries. Innovation Capital provides comprehensive advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, financial restructuring, and valuations/fairness opinions to companies in the $20M to $500M value range. As Innovation Capital’s Founding Partner and Managing Partner, Mr. Sodl oversees a firm that has… Show more Innovation Capital is a leading boutique investment bank dedicated to representing mid-market clients in the gaming, leisure, restaurant, and retail industries. Innovation Capital provides comprehensive advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, financial restructuring, and valuations/fairness opinions to companies in the $20M to $500M value range. As Innovation Capital’s Founding Partner and Managing Partner, Mr. Sodl oversees a firm that has established itself as one of the leading boutique investment banks serving the mid-market gaming, leisure, restaurant, and retail industries. Mr. Sodl is one of the most tenured gaming industry bankers on Wall Street having over 20 years of experience advising clients on debt and equity offerings, financial restructurings, merger and acquisitions, and project finance transactions. Since its inception in 2004, Mr. Sodl has led Innovation Capital’s banking practice which has completed nearly 100 transactions aggregating over $5.5 billion for nearly every segment of the gaming/hospitality industry including privately-held commercial casinos, Native American tribal gaming entities, gaming equipment manufacturers, iGaming businesses, and restaurant companies. Over the course of his career, Mr. Sodl has advised on transactions aggregating over $30 billion. Prior to Innovation Capital, Mr. Sodl served as a senior banker at Merrill Lynch, Schroder Wertheim, and Murphy Noell, where he worked on a number of the casino gaming industry’s largest transactions. Mr. Sodl is widely quoted in the news media including CNBC, Fox Business News, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, BusinessWeek, and the Las Vegas Sun and was named to Investor Dealers’ Digest’s “40 under 40” list of leading investment bankers in 2006. In 2017, Mr. Sodl was recognized by Global Gaming Business Magazine as one of the “25 People to Watch” in the gaming industry. Show less Innovation Capital is a leading boutique investment bank dedicated to representing mid-market clients in the gaming, leisure, restaurant, and retail industries. Innovation Capital provides comprehensive advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, financial restructuring, and valuations/fairness opinions to companies in the $20M to $500M value range. As Innovation Capital’s Founding Partner and Managing Partner, Mr. Sodl oversees a firm that has… Show more Innovation Capital is a leading boutique investment bank dedicated to representing mid-market clients in the gaming, leisure, restaurant, and retail industries. Innovation Capital provides comprehensive advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, financial restructuring, and valuations/fairness opinions to companies in the $20M to $500M value range. As Innovation Capital’s Founding Partner and Managing Partner, Mr. Sodl oversees a firm that has established itself as one of the leading boutique investment banks serving the mid-market gaming, leisure, restaurant, and retail industries. Mr. Sodl is one of the most tenured gaming industry bankers on Wall Street having over 20 years of experience advising clients on debt and equity offerings, financial restructurings, merger and acquisitions, and project finance transactions. Since its inception in 2004, Mr. Sodl has led Innovation Capital’s banking practice which has completed nearly 100 transactions aggregating over $5.5 billion for nearly every segment of the gaming/hospitality industry including privately-held commercial casinos, Native American tribal gaming entities, gaming equipment manufacturers, iGaming businesses, and restaurant companies. Over the course of his career, Mr. Sodl has advised on transactions aggregating over $30 billion. Prior to Innovation Capital, Mr. Sodl served as a senior banker at Merrill Lynch, Schroder Wertheim, and Murphy Noell, where he worked on a number of the casino gaming industry’s largest transactions. Mr. Sodl is widely quoted in the news media including CNBC, Fox Business News, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, BusinessWeek, and the Las Vegas Sun and was named to Investor Dealers’ Digest’s “40 under 40” list of leading investment bankers in 2006. In 2017, Mr. Sodl was recognized by Global Gaming Business Magazine as one of the “25 People to Watch” in the gaming industry. Show less



Murphy Noell Capital

• Principal

  • Jun 2001 - Dec 2003



Merrill Lynch

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President

  • Jan 1997 - May 2001



Schroder Wertheim

• Vice President

  • 1994 - 1997