Abe Garver
Abe Garver presenting at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition on June 5, 2012
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Southern California, Manderson Graduate School
Occupation(s)	M&A Investment Banker, Television Commentator, and Speaker

Abe Garver is an American M&A investment banker,^[1][2] magazine contributor,^[3] television commentator,^[4] and conference speaker.^[5]

Abe Garver holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Master’s Degree in Finance from the Manderson Graduate School and is registered^[6] with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as a General Securities Representative (Series 7 and 63) and a Limited Representative – Investment Banking (Series 79).^[1][2]

Garver is the Managing Director of Focus Investment Banking. Previous to his position with Focus, he worked for BG Strategic Advisors, Merrill Lynch’s M&A Technology Group and Ernst & Young’s Business Valuation Group.^[1] In 2012 Garver was a featured speaker at the eighth Annual Internet Retailer Conference. His speaking topic was, Selling your Company: Preparing for the Pre- and Post-sale World.^[5]

Abe Garver is also a business and financial contributor to Yahoo Finance,^[7] Seeking Alpha,^[8] MarketWatch,^[9] and Forbes.com.^[10] In Forbes Garver has written about e-commerce, m-commerce, M&A trends, valuation, Internet taxation, entrepreneurship, IPOs, and other topics.^[11] In Seeking Alpha, Garver has written about participant motivations in M&A transactions, repercussions of changes to long-term capital gains rates, and the importance of gross margin expansion to valuation.^[8] As an on-air contributor to Bloomberg Television, Garver has given advice on e-commerce industries, in addition to discussing his work helping to raise capital for or sell e-commerce companies.^[12] He has also discussed the concept of Showrooming and its effect on the health of both brick and mortar as well as online retailers.^[13] As an on-air contributor to Fox Business Network he has discussed strategies relating to selling technology companies as well as trends in electronic commerce, including TV-commerce, same day delivery by online stores, shoppable windows, and user specialization.^[4]

In addition to his professional pursuits, he is a member of The University Club of New York, Governor Emeritus of the University of Southern California Alumni Association and President Emeritus of the New York City Chapter.^[14]