About Us
The path to money-management and investing began at grade school age for Tyler.
While not officially managing money for others until young adulthood, the lessons of saving money for a “rainy day” was instilled early on as a kid in grade school by his mother and grandmother.
One day Tyler’s mother sat him down and went over all the monthly expenses and the simple equation of monthly income minus monthly living expenses. As he observed the amount of money left after the full breakdown…. It was then that Tyler learned what budgeting and the value of a hard-earned dollar was all about.
First Seed of Entrepreneurship Planted
Tyler’s first official job opportunity came during high school at the age of fifteen, while working for Mack II, Inc., DBA Edy’s Ice Cream – Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Gaining this invaluable experience at one of the busiest airports in the US would ignite the spark of an ambitious spirit in the teen.
The Spark of Finance
In college at then pre-merger GA Perimeter College, he learned the process of managing a fiscal budget and allocation of funds while in Student Government.
Tyler had caught the finance/investment bug halfway into college as a Communications major.
What further sparked Tyler’s interest of becoming an investor was when his mother had set aside funds in a money market account in his name which both had totally forgotten about. The phrase “set it and forget it” applies in this case as it refers to a process or strategy that requires minimal attention after the initial setup. The funds in the account only to be rediscovered post-graduation allowed Tyler to open an account for his then mobile notary business.
“The banker I was working with informed me of the available funds in the money market account that was started 6 years prior. The money with several years of interest attached was enough to cover the first 4 months of the marketing/ads budget and registration fees to kick the business off.”
Technology & Self-Investment
Technology and investing would serve as two pivotal tools in Tyler’s career. While working in IT Support at his alma mater Georgia State University during the day, on lunch breaks and after clocking out Tyler would read from cover-to-cover Wallstreet Journals and Barron’s. Halfway through his IT career, in doing immense research on the businesses in the tech sector and witnessing the amount of wealth accumulated by investors, Tyler decided to make the biggest investment he would ever make; in himself.
Specifically educating himself with literature on anything finance and business-related he could get his hands on.
Living in a modern internet/digital age where ivy-league and top universities offer certificate programs online and hybrid, he decided to take advantage of the Covid-19 lockdown and studied deeper into Finance with a specific concentration in Risk Management through the NY Institute of Finance during the pandemic to complete the program.
It would be during the pandemic that he would invest heavily in the tech sector through the stock market. When the market crashed during Covid-19, he would follow his biggest return in his short career as an investor when the market proceeded to roundtrip its loss with a full-on bull run the following 10 months into 2021.
HPG Partnership
The pandemic years changed the world, however an avid follower of the Warren Buffett philosophy “be greedy when others are fearful,” Tyler bought in the markets when panic arose and not only multiplied his initial investment but his mother’s as well multiple times over.
In 2023 he founded HPG Partnership, HPG being an acronym for Hushpuppy Global (the term hushpuppy deriving from a play on words in conversations had with his mother many years prior on silent partnerships in the business world).
Since its launch over 2 years ago under Tyler’s management HPG Partnership has generated an annual average return of +24%.