Welcoming Andrew Capitman to the League Board of Trustees

Andrew Capitman has joined the Preservation League’s Board of Trustees, bringing with him extensive knowledge in the areas of investment banking and historic preservation. With five decades of experience, Andrew currently serves as a corporate finance Managing Director at Duff & Phelps, a Kroll, Inc. business. Prior to Duff & Phelps, he served as a managing director in The Bank of New York’s Merchant Banking Group, head of corporate finance at Fieldstone, Inc., and as a managing director at Bankers Trust Company in the bank’s New York and London M&A teams.

Andrew has pursued a lifelong passion for decorative arts and historic preservation. With his mother, Barbara Baer Capitman, he was a Founding Director of The Miami Design Preservation League which led the successful movement to designate Miami Beach’s Art Deco District as a National Register Historic District. As the first mover in restoring Art Deco District properties, he was the founder and general partner of Art Deco Hotels, Ltd., which restored and operated seven hotels that pioneered the revival of not only the historic district, but also of Miami Beach’s tourism industry. Andrew also served as director, treasurer, and for three years, along with his wife, Margaret Anne Doyle, co-president of Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center. Located in Garrison, New York, Manitoga is the National Landmark home, studio, and woodland gardens of noted American industrial designer Russel Wright. Andrew attended Groton School, received his B.A., cum laude, from Yale University and his M.A. with honors, from the University of Miami School of Business and Economics. After growing up in New York’s Putnam Valley, Andrew and Margaret spend most of their time in Millbrook, New York, in the 1825 farmhouse they have owned for thirty years.