Mr. Garner’s primary areas of concentration are leveraged finance, venture capital, and strategic advisory solutions across the full credit spectrum. He has worked with clients across a diverse range of industries and geographies.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Garner worked at Oriente Group, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Restructuring Advisor. His primary responsibilities were the oversight of all aspects of corporate finance, accounting, and investor relations. This included developing and implementing a number of cash-flow optimization initiatives to stabilize core business performance and reduce operating expenses across multiple regional markets. Working in conjunction with all stakeholders and creditors, Mr. Garner also led the M&A execution for the sale of the company’s largest operating subsidiary to a US strategic.

Before that, Mr. Garner spent 15 years with J.P. Morgan Securities in both New York and Hong Kong SAR, China, where he worked within the Leveraged & Acquisition Finance practice and served as Co-Head of High Yield Capital Markets Asia. He was responsible for all origination and execution efforts and completed a broad range of transactions, raising $35+ billion in debt across a variety of leveraged products, structures, currencies, and jurisdictions globally. Mr. Garner also completed an extensive number of capital structure advisory and liability management exercises across the region.

Mr. Garner earned bachelor’s degrees in both applied science (mechanical engineering) and economics from Queen’s University, Canada.