About Main Street Alternatives

Jeff Garcia

Founder & CEO

Accredited Wealth Management Advisor™

Wall Street wasn’t built for everyone and that’s why I built Main Street Alternatives. My vision to build this company has been years in the making. Alternatives intrigued me from the very beginning: first from a curiosity standpoint and then an intellectual one. Early on in my career, I first heard the term “smart money”, describing how large institutions use alternatives to manage portfolio risk away from public markets. That got me thinking… “Well if this is smart, then what’s everything else?”

After getting my Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire, I spent five years in commercial lending and then began my financial services career in 2004. Over that time, I’ve learned about timber investments and then oil and gas. From there, I got into forex, managed futures, real estate, hedge funds then private equity and venture capital. As an early adopter of alternatives, pursuing the road not taken by most of my contemporaries in the business, doors opened for me that even I couldn’t believe. I became an alternative investments consultant to institutions, endowments, and billion dollar Registered Investment Advisors representing the largest transparency firm in alternative investments globally, empowering institutional clients with access into over 5,000 hedge funds. My work was recognized nationally, with press releases appearing in Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and MarketWatch. I saw firsthand how these institutions were using alternatives to achieve superior returns and manage risks and was determined to make them available to more people.

Along the way, I learned that if I wanted the most unique investments and resources, I had to be with a boutique firm who understood the capital markets and investment banking, and who was both nimble and capable. A firm who could confidently go where big firms could not. My partners at Quincy Wells Capital do exactly that: they provide me with due diligence, intellectual capital and manage my compliance and regulatory affairs.

My passion has always been in regular people, because I’m a regular guy. I’m the first generation son of an immigrant and a retired school teacher whose family beginnings pre-date the founding of our country. It’s given me a profound respect for sharing ideas with ambitious people, giving them hope through difficulty and opening doors so they can pursue their dreams.

I’ve built this company so I could help you be successful. Reach out today for a free consultation.