GROWTH & IMPACT WEEK SPEAKER LINEUP
The speakers at Growth and Impact Week are award-winning advisors, operators, and thought leaders who don’t just understand growth and impact, they execute it. Each speaker has been selected for their ability to translate methodology into real-world implementation, sharing how they’ve built in-demand practices through intentional, ROI-driven relationships with business owners. Expect candid perspectives, practical frameworks, and honest discussion around what works in today’s market, from client selection and trust-building to accountability, culture, and value creation. This is not a stage of theorists; it’s a room of practitioners committed to helping you apply what you learn and accelerate results in your firm.
Lee Garber
Meet Lee Garber:
Lee Garber is a Partner at NewSpring, a leading provider of private equity capital managing approximately $2.5 billion across five distinct strategies, and is dedicated NewSpring Holdings, the firm’s dedicated buyout strategy. Lee...
ABOUT LEE
Meet Lee Garber:
Lee Garber is a Partner at NewSpring, a leading provider of private equity capital managing approximately $2.5 billion across five distinct strategies, and is dedicated NewSpring Holdings, the firm’s dedicated buyout strategy. Lee has over 12 years of operationally focused audit and principal investment experience including evaluating, managing, and assisting lower middle market businesses and helping to conceptualize, implement, and manage value creation initiatives at an operational level.
Before joining NewSpring in 2012, he was a Summer Associate with OMERS Private Equity, the direct private equity group of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, a $70+ billion Canadian pension fund, focused on middle market leveraged buyouts.
Prior to OMERS, Lee was a Senior Analyst with Versa Capital Management, a distressed and special situations private equity fund, where he worked on acquisitions and portfolio company operations across a variety of industries. Previously, he was with Ernst & Young LLP's Assurance and Advisory Business Services practice working in industries including insurance (life), gaming, government contracting, and benefit plans.
He received a BSBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis with majors in Finance and Accounting and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Lee is also a CPA (inactive).