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Matt Garrett

Founder & CEO at TGG Accounting

San Diego, CA

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Why they matter

Bootstrapped a 20-year, multi-office outsourced accounting firm serving 500+ SMBs and has personally guided $1B+ in client M&A — a proven operator for accounting roll-up plays.

Background

Matt Garrett is the Founder and CEO of TGG Accounting, an outsourced finance-and-accounting firm he started in San Diego in 2006 after building and selling two prior startups by age 35. A Vanderbilt graduate (Human and Organizational Development, 1997), he has spent over 20 years focused on small-business financial infrastructure, growing TGG from a single San Diego office into a multi-office (San Diego, Denver, Irvine) practice serving 500+ clients with revenues up to $100 million and facilitating over $1 billion in M&A transactions for clients.

Notable deals

  • 2006
    Founded TGG Accounting, an outsourced finance and accounting firm for small and mid-size businesses
  • 2018
    Published "The TGG Way," codifying TGG's financial management philosophy and 20 small-business accounting principles
  • 2019
    Led TGG Accounting to its 5th Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies ranking (No. 3756, 53% three-year revenue growth)
  • 2020
    Delivered Vistage's "Leading in Challenging Times" webinar on COVID-19 financial survival tactics for small businesses

Call-prep brief

Background

  • Founder/CEO of TGG Accounting since 2006; San Diego native, Vanderbilt grad (1997)
  • Serial entrepreneur — built and sold two businesses before age 35, before founding TGG
  • Grew TGG from San Diego to a 3-office footprint (San Diego, Denver, Irvine), 500+ clients up to $100M revenue
  • 5x Inc. 5000 honoree, 4x San Diego Best Places to Work, published "The TGG Way" (2018)

Current focus

  • Runs TGG's outsourced/fractional CFO and accounting model ("The TGG Way") for SMB clients
  • Active national speaker for Vistage on small-business financial discipline and, during COVID, remote-ops and cost management
  • Vice President, Board of Directors, FINACA (a national alliance of independent finance/accounting consulting firms) — self-reported, not independently corroborated on FINACA's own site

What he cares about

  • Reducing the small-business failure rate through proactive, data-driven financial reporting
  • Company culture (repeated "Best Places to Work" wins) and disciplined operating rhythm

Sensitivities

  • Public materials go quiet after ~2020-2021; no confirmed recent news on TGG's growth, leadership, or M&A posture — verify current status before assuming continuity
  • TGG itself sits inside the accounting roll-up target set; approach this as a market-intelligence call unless there is real acquisition interest to disclose

Questions to ask

  1. How is he seeing consolidation play out in outsourced accounting/bookkeeping — who are the active roll-up acquirers?
  2. What's TGG's growth trajectory and multi-office expansion plan since 2019-2020?
  3. Has TGG fielded acquisition interest, and what would matter most to him in evaluating a transaction?

Outreach draft

Subject
Your view on accounting roll-up consolidation
Hi Matt, I came across TGG Accounting's growth story — five-time Inc. 5000 honoree and a genuinely differentiated outsourced-accounting model across San Diego, Denver, and Irvine. Impressive run since 2006. I work with a private equity team studying consolidation in the accounting and bookkeeping services space, and your two decades building TGG give you a rare vantage point on where the market is headed — competitive dynamics, talent, and what makes a roll-up actually work for founders. Would you be open to a 20-minute call to share your perspective? Happy to work around your schedule. Best, [Name]

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