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Founding Partner
Olivier Garret

Founding Partner

From 2007- 2015, Olivier was CEO and Partner of Casey Research, a publisher of financial research focused on the resource sector. Olivier successfully sold the company in May of 2015. 


He is also a founding Partner of Mauldin Economics and Garret/Galland Research, two leading publishers of financial research geared to individual investors and institutions. 


In 2012, he launched the Hard Assets Alliance, a revolutionary trading platform for precious metal investors. In addition, Olivier is managing partner of three hedge funds invested in the resource sector.


Prior to joining Casey Research in January 2007, Olivier was a principal in Kemp Management, a management consulting firm focused on merger & acquisition, restructuring, and turnaround activities for a variety of private equity firms and financial institutions. In this capacity, he led and participated in dozens of merger & acquisition and restructuring deals in a variety of industries.


During the 1990s, Olivier was CEO and general manager of a number of industrial businesses ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to divisions of a Fortune 500 company.


He earned an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and a Masters in Business from the Université de Paris IX-Dauphine.

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