Giles is a Managing Director at Progress Partners. Giles has 18 years of business and investing experience largely in the public markets. After working with Progress Partners on a part time basis, and investing in two Progress early stage deals, he joined as a full time member of the team in September 2009. Giles spent a large portion of 2009 exploring entrepreneurial opportunities in the digital media, consumer and clean tech verticals, all areas of passion for him. Progress Partners provides a natural fit for Giles’s experience and talents in the fundamental analysis of companies in diverse industries with a eye to discovery of unique investment opportunities and creation of value for all parties.

Formerly, Giles was a Senior Equity Analyst with Atlantic Investment Management, a NYC based long / short equity hedge fund firm. Prior to his 6+ years with Atlantic, Giles spent close to 9 years as an Equity Analyst at Delafield Asset Management, a long tenured and highly respected money management firm. Giles’ background as a generalist investor in the public markets provides him with a unique perspective on early stage companies.

Giles has actively participated in deal screening and analysis of early stage digital media companies through the local chapter of a nation-wide for profit angel investor group. He is an active participant in the NYC technology community and has fostered relationships with a growing universe of the city’s tech start up executives. Giles earned his BA from Rollins College in 1992. Giles and his family live in Manhattan.