• Advisory Services

    Advisory Services

    David is President of BTblock, an emerging technology & cybersecurity consultancy firm, and currently serves as the Independent Director on the Board of BTCS Inc., a publicly-held U.S. company involved with Digital Assets and Blockchain, and Encrypgen, a privately held company where, through tokenization, DNA data buyers can customize filtered searches from a diverse sample of de-identified genomic profiles and buy DNA data directly from the data owners.

  • Strategic Planning, Financial Analysis & Corporate Management

    Strategic Planning, Financial Analysis & Corporate Management

    Drawing on public company CFO & Wall Street analyst experience, GVA serves such clients as The World Bank Group.

  • Author & Expert Commentator

    Author & Expert Commentator

    GVA regularly contributes to & is a trusted source for such business media as CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Investopedia & Asia Times.

Recent Posts

Interview: Raising Capital in Today’s Environment

David Garrity, Principal at GVA Research, talks with Jason Behrens, the ACE Portal General Counsel, about the evolving paradigm in today’s capital raising environment. They cover: Access to capital vis-a-vis the JOBS Act Issues of adequate due diligence The role of technology and platforms in facilitating better information disclosure and investor protections How broker-dealers are reacting

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Nasdaq 5,000: Sell Signal?

Nasdaq 5,000 – Approaching Full Recovery To March 2000 Peak: With broader market averages such as the S&P500 breaking out to new highs, investor questions have grown as the measure that characterized the excess of the Internet 1.0 bubble, the Nasdaq index, fast approaches its March 10, 2000 intraday peak of 5,132.52 with concerns rising

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Forbes: Why Big Blue Is Still A Big Bruise

Following my appearance on CNBC discussing IBM in 2015, Steve Denning of Forbes wrote this thoughtful piece quoting GVA Research: IBM: Why Big Blue Is Still a A Big Bruise Thanks Steve for including GVA Research in your commentary.  Here is the the link to the full article.

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Microsoft’s Gift to Intel

Today I had the chance to talk live on CNBC’s Squawk Box about INTC. INTC – Enterprise Server Upgrade Cycle Supporting 2015 EPS Growth: With MSFT set to end support for Windows Server 2003 in July 2015, over 10mm server units may be up for refresh in 2015. As 2014 shipments for the entire Windows server

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What’s Plaguing IBM?

I joined CNBC Squawk Box to talk about IBM and why is one of the worst performing tech stocks in the S&P 500 this year. Anchors Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin ask me what 2015 and beyond holds for the company.  Click here to watch the video.

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Advice To Entrepreneurs: What’s Behind You Is Not Important

 Above Photo Credit: Flickr This post was originally published by Tammy Kahn Fennell in her Huffington Post column. As entrepreneurs we all swing for the fences, and sometimes we hit a grand slam, sometimes it’s a single or a double, and sometimes, we strike out. In fact, the only guarantee is that there is none. You

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