Bio

Garin has 20 years of technology investment banking and M&A experience spanning a range of high growth industry sectors including SaaS, application software, architecture, engineering & construction (AEC) software, EdTech, GovTech, and healthcare information technology (HCIT), among others. Garin has extensive experience advising private equity, venture capital and founder-owned companies on a range of strategic M&A, majority and minority recapitalizations, and private placement transactions. Representative transactions include the sale of ESO Solutions to Vista Equity Partners (pending); Routematch to Uber; Surgent to NexPhase Capital Partners; PTI Security Systems to HID Global; Intellectual Technologies to Arlington Capital Partners; Avitru to Deltek / Roper Technologies; NuPark to Passport Parking; Xpressdocs to Reynolds & Reynolds; WIRB to Arsenal Capital Partners; T2 Systems to Pamlico Capital; and Encore Discovery Solutions to EPIQ Systems. Prior to Aeris Partners, Garin was a Managing Director at Piper Jaffray & Co. where he led the firm’s Vertical Market Technology practice. Previously, Garin was a Managing Director at MHT Partners, where he served as Co-Head of the Technology practice, and a senior member of the Harris Williams & Co. Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice, where he focused on software and technology-enabled services M&A. Garin began his investment banking career at Adams, Harkness & Hill (later Canaccord Genuity) in the technology practice and has additional client services experience with Fidelity Investments and Putnam Investments. Garin received an MBA from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Government from Colby College.