Bio

Giles has over twenty five years experience in the investment industry. In early 2002, Giles co-founded McNamee Lawrence & Co. (MLC) in Boston to provide advisory and investment banking services to exciting but overlooked technology companies. In the more than eight years since founding, MLC has advised more than 75 clients and closed more than 55 transactions. Recent transactions include advising Netsuite (NYSE - N) on the acquisitions of both QuickArrow (2009) and OpenAir (2008), the sale of UCMS, an Australian call center company, to Aegis, a large Indian outsourcing conglomerate, the sale nCode, a UK-based defense technology company, to Spectris, a public company in the UK, and acting as advisor to Norkom Technologies, a public company in Ireland, in the acquisition of Digital Harbor.