Garett Poston is a Managing Director and leads Regional Investment Banking in the Western US. In his current capacity, Mr. Poston partners with colleagues across the firm to deliver investment banking products and solutions to a broad group of Commercial and I&CB clients across the Western US. He is based in Los Angeles, and covers the California, Pacific Northwest, and Inter-Mountain regions.

Prior to joining BMO in 2023, Poston spent 4 years as a Managing Director and Western Region Lead at Deloitte Corporate Finance, LLC, where he advised privately-held middle market companies on capital and liquidity transactions. Before that, he spent 14 years at J.P. Morgan.in the M&A Group, the first 10 in New York focused mainly on large cap transactions and the last 4 in San Francisco acting as Western Region M&A Lead for J.P. Morgan’s Regional Investment Bank (middle market effort). Throughout his career, he has advised on 60 completed transactions valued at over $65bn.

Poston completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Alberta and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.