Louis Garbutt grew up in the Central American country of Belize. He later moved to the United States where he earned a bachelor's degree in finance from California State University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix. Garbutt began his seventeen-year career in the commercial finance industry as an accounting supervisor, then manager. Since 1993, when he established his own accounting and tax practice, he has been founder and president of ALGEM Financial Services.
Currently Garbutt and his wife, Ava, reside in Diamond Bar, California, where he has