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Giles has over twenty years experience in the investment industry. In early 2002, Giles and Glover Lawrence founded McNamee Lawrence & Co. (MLC) in Boston to provide advisory and investment banking services to exciting but overlooked technology companies. Giles and Glover announced their first transaction in June 2002, the $78 million sale of CBS Payroll Services to Intuit. In the more than five years since founding, MLC has advised more than 50 clients and closed more than 30 transactions. Recent transactions include: the restructuring and recapitalization led by MLC of a UK software company Propero Ltd and then the subsequent sale of Propero to VMWare; the sale of WorldWinner to the Fun Technologies division of Liberty Media; the sale of Tribeca Tables to Playtech; the $105 million cash sale of NetSec to MCI; and two financings for LogMeIn Inc.
Prior to forming McNamee Lawrence, Giles was a Managing Director with Hambrecht & Quist and its successor organizations, Chase H&Q and JPMorgan H&Q. While with H&Q, Giles served as Co-Head of the Software Investment Banking Group, splitting time between San Francisco, Boston and London. At H&Q, Giles was responsible for more than $70 billion in transactions including IPOs, follow-on offerings, private placements and mergers and acquisitions. Some of the companies Giles has worked with include Art Technology Group, Blaze Software, Brio Technology, Centra Software, CMGi, Content Technologies, Critical Path, Getty Images, Jupiter Media, Liberate Technology, Lycos, MapInfo, MP3.com, Plug Power, Quadstone, Red Hat, SEAT Pagine Gialle, Sybase, Telecom Italia, TruSecure and Tumbleweed. In addition, Giles was responsible for many of Hambrecht & Quist’s senior technology venture capital relationships and sponsored more than $25 million of investments into H&Q’s venture funds. Before joining H&Q, Giles worked for ten years with First Albany Corporation where he served as a Senior Vice President/Director of Institutional Equities and was a member of the Equity Management Committee. At the start of his career, he was a Partner at Hawthorne Securities, a Boston-based equity trading firm. He is an active angel investor, investing in several dozen private companies over the years.
Giles holds Series 7, Series 24 (Principal), Series 27 (Financial Principal) and Series 63 (MA) licenses and is registered with the FSA (UK). Giles sits on several charitable boards, including The Friends of the Public Garden, First Night and the Overseers of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Giles earned a BA in History from Yale College.
Giles lives in Boston, is married with two step-sons, two sons and a bulldog named Olivia. Giles plays guitar and sings with a Boston band called the Rockhoppers. Giles is an enthusiastic squash and tennis player, excelling at neither, and an avid skier. | 