Two Brothers.
One Firm.
We have spent our whole lives solving problems together. Building Garbs & Co. was the natural next step.
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Kyle Garbs
Finance and Management
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. Today he works at a large consulting firm with a specialized focus on the energy sector, currently leading a major engagement with one of the largest electric utilities in Texas across process modernization, systems integration, and long-range financial planning. At Garbs & Co., he brings that combination of technical fluency, financial rigor, and operational depth to every engagement.
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Reed Garbs
AI, HR & Data
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, and Reed was invited to consult both Mays Business School at Texas A&M and the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business 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 that most firms only read about.
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The Brother Dynamic
Is a Feature, Not a Footnote.
We have argued, debated, and challenged each other's thinking for our entire lives. That dynamic does not disappear when we work together. It is exactly what makes the work better.
When Kyle says a people analytics recommendation does not hold up financially, it gets reworked. When Reed says a financial model does not reflect how people and organizations actually behave, it gets reworked. Clients get both perspectives baked into every engagement, whether they are working with one of us or both.
Most firms force you to choose between financial sophistication and people expertise. We built a firm where you do not have to choose, because the brothers running it have spent years developing both sides and the ability to translate between them.
How We Got Here.
Growing up together, Kyle and Reed developed a shared drive to understand how things work — Kyle through numbers and systems thinking, Reed through people and technology. Different instincts, same obsession with getting to the root of a problem.
Kyle pursued finance and management, building expertise in financial modeling, capital strategy, and the operational mechanics that determine whether a business actually executes on its strategy. Reed went deep into HR technology and data, eventually landing at Texas Instruments as a global People Systems and Insights analyst.
Both brothers kept running into the same problem from their respective sides. Organizations either had financial sophistication without people intelligence, or people expertise without the financial fluency to translate it into executive decisions. The gap between those two worlds was costing organizations significant value.
Building the firm together was the natural answer. Kyle and Reed combined their expertise into a single advisory offering that closes the gap most firms leave open — one that speaks the language of the boardroom and the language of the workforce simultaneously.
The organizations that outperform do not separate financial discipline from people intelligence. They build both. That is what we help you do.
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