Garrick Hileman is a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and a Researcher at the LSE Centre for Macroeconomics. Prior to turning to academia he worked for 15+ years in the private sector with both start-ups and established companies such as Bank of America, The Home Depot, IDG, and Allianz. Garrick’s technology experience includes co-founding a $300 million San Francisco-based tech incubator, IT strategy consulting for multinationals, and founding MacroDigest. He also worked at Montgomery Securities in both equity research and corporate finance, where he executed over $1 billion in M&A and underwriting transactions. He has served on the boards of directors of both publicly traded and private companies. He has worked or consulted in a wide range of industries, including banking, technology, online media, specialty finance, insurance, business services, retail, non-profit, education, and government.