Gabe Fried

Gabriel Fried is the founder and CEO of Hilco Streambank, LLC in Needham, Mass. He began liquidating intangibles in 2000, when he was retained to dispose of his former employer’s digital and trademark assets. He pioneered the distressed brokerage of intangibles during his roles as liquidator, auctioneer, investor, buyer’s agent, expert witness and appraiser. As a freelance IP sales agent, Mr. Fried worked through a number of retail and manufacturing cases from 2000-07, when he launched Stream-bank in order to build a team. After four years of working most major insolvency cases in the U.S. with intellectual property assets, the Streambank team joined Hilco in 2011. Mr. Fried has worked on several hundred appraisals of intellectual property assets for lenders and regularly testifies as an expert in cases involving disputes over intellectual property value, as well as sale process integrity. He received hisB.A. with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.S. in economics from theUniversity of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he was a Ph.D. candidate.