The Firm Behind
the Work.
Built on a Gap No One Was Closing.
Garbs & Co. was founded on a straightforward observation: the organizations best positioned to grow are those that have mastered both the financial language of the boardroom and the operational intelligence of the people running the business.
Most advisory firms pick a lane. Finance consultants understand capital but rarely understand the people systems that execute strategy. HR consultants understand workforce dynamics but rarely speak the quantitative language executives need to make resource decisions. The gap between those two worlds costs organizations significant value, and almost nobody is designed to close it.
Kyle brings the capital rigor. Reed brings the systems intelligence and AI expertise. Together, they deliver what neither discipline can alone.
We work with a small number of clients at a time by design. The quality of thinking we bring to an engagement depends on the depth of attention we give it. We are not a volume firm. We are a results firm.
Operating Principles.
Precision Over Output
We measure success by decision quality, not activity volume. Every engagement is scoped and executed to produce something you can act on, not just a deliverable that looks good in a folder.
Built From the Inside Out
Both partners carry active, real-world experience in the domains they advise. Reed works inside a Fortune 500 HR function. Kyle has built the models and operating plans he now advises on. We do not consult from a distance.
Accountability Through Execution
Strategy that does not survive contact with reality is not strategy. We stay engaged through implementation, navigate what the plan encounters in the real world, and share accountability for outcomes.
Honest Over Comfortable
If something is not working, we say it first. If a project is outside our scope, we will tell you who is better positioned. Our value depends on trust, and trust depends on honesty.
Meet the Team.
Kyle's career began at the forefront of emerging technology. After completing his undergraduate degree, he joined a location-based virtual reality startup working in game design, building interactive environments and contributing to the technical systems that made full-body immersive experiences possible. That foundation gave Kyle an early and practical command of how complex technology comes together, how fast-moving teams operate under pressure, and what separates the ideas that ship from the ones that don't.
From there, Kyle pursued his MBA at McCombs Business School, University of Texas at Austin, and moved into management consulting. His technical background combined with his financial training gives him an uncommon ability to operate across the full breadth of an organization, from the systems and processes that run the business day to day, to the financial models and capital strategies that determine its direction. He has built financial planning frameworks from the ground up, redesigned operational workflows across complex organizations, and advised leadership teams on the structural decisions that allow businesses to scale without losing control of what matters.
Today Kyle works at a large consulting firm with a specialized focus on the energy sector, leading engagements with some of the most operationally complex organizations in the industry. His current work includes a major engagement with one of the largest electric utilities in Texas, where he is driving initiatives across process modernization, systems integration, and long-range financial planning. At Garbs & Co., he brings that same combination of technical fluency, financial rigor, and operational depth to help organizations at every stage build the infrastructure they need to grow with confidence.
Areas of Expertise
Reed's path into technology started early. Before most of his peers had their first job, he had already founded and operated several small businesses and startups, developing a hands-on understanding of what it takes to build something from the ground up. After completing his undergraduate degree, he joined an oil and gas manufacturing company where he delivered some of his earliest enterprise-level work, engineering automations that transformed manual onboarding workflows and overhauled disconnected financial reporting systems into something the business could actually depend on.
From there, Reed pursued his Master's in Human Resource Management at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He was recruited into a Fortune 200 technology company upon graduating, joining their HR Data and People Systems organization at a point when the company was actively testing AI agents and exploring their practical uses across enterprise operations. He supported global analytics infrastructure and quickly took on ownership of process automation, identifying gaps across the organization and building out a dedicated function around it, developing AI systems, transactional dashboards, and metrics integrations across Oracle, Workday, SAP, Microsoft 365, and Spotfire.
The breadth of that work drew the attention of academia. Reed was invited to consult both Mays Business School at Texas A&M and the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business on the role of artificial intelligence in the modern workplace, advising both institutions on how business curriculum should evolve to prepare students for an AI-integrated environment. Reed is the architect behind the firm's AI tools and practices. Where most consultants advise on AI from the outside, Reed has spent years building it from the inside, across HR, data systems, and enterprise operations at a scale most firms only read about.
Areas of Expertise
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