Giles McNamee, Managing Director

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.

Under Giles' leadership, MLC and its partners and affiliates have made a number of successful direct investments in companies including: UNYK, a Montreal-based company which was sold in 2009 to Viadeo, a French business directory and networking service; Propero Ltd, a UK-based virtualization company which was sold to VMWare; and LogMeIn (Nasdaq - LOGM) which MLC's partners and co-investors participated in the original Angel financing after which MLC advised the first round of institutional financing in which MLC participated, concurrently with the company's relocation from Budapest, Hungary, to Massachusetts.

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. Giles earned a BA in History from Yale College.

Giles is a lonely Yankee fan living in Boston. His bulldog Olivia is also a Yankee fan though his two sons and two step-sons are all ardent citizens of Red Sox Nation. Giles plays guitar and sings with a Boston-based rock band; he is an enthusiastic squash and tennis player, excelling at neither, and he is an avid skier.