Jonathan Deptula is responsible for managing the day to day operations of the appraisal practice along with business development, inventory appraisals and supporting all other HYPERAMS business operations. He works with asset-based lenders, commercial lenders, private equity firms and companies to help understand asset values. Jonathan has completed hundreds of appraisals for firms in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Deptula began in the appraisal industry working for the Great American Group as a financial analyst working in the wholesale/industrial inventory practice in Boston. Progressing through the ranks, Deptula eventually became a senior project manager and was in charge of the chemicals/plastics, food and packaging industry verticals and worked on many of Great American’s largest engagements. In December 2011, Deptula moved to Chicago to open Great American’s first appraisal operations office in the Midwest while managing staff in Chicago, Boston and Dallas. Before working in the appraisal industry, he was a college hockey coach at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Deptula is a committee member of the Midwest chapter of the Commercial Finance Association (CFA) along with being a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). He is a graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology.