Garrison Associates

No. Garrison Associates is an executive search and technology staffing firm. It specializes in full-time contingency placement for financial services, healthcare, fintech and data companies. The firm does not invest capital, manage assets, or deploy a balance sheet.

Emtek Solutions is a separate limited liability company owned by the same co-principals, Ed Ashburn and Marla Leibel. While Garrison handles full-time permanent placements, Emtek provides contract and consulting resources for short- and long-term technology projects. A client can access both permanent-hire and contract-staffing services through the same relationship.

The firm's own materials name financial services, healthcare, fintech and data-intensive companies as its core client base. It does not publish a client list, but its focus is squarely on organizations that need technologists with business-domain fluency — candidates who can work directly with traders, portfolio managers and senior operating executives.

Ed Ashburn and Marla Leibel are co-principals of both Garrison Associates and Emtek Solutions. They have worked together since at least their tenure at Howard Michaels Associates, where they ran the computer and technology division before founding Garrison in 1997. The firm has not disclosed any outside ownership, additional partners or equity participants.

The firm is headquartered in Manhattan and conducts full-time placement work throughout the U.S. and internationally, according to its website. Emtek Solutions, its contract arm, explicitly states the ability to provide consulting services anywhere within the continental United States.