Giles Thorne is a Managing Director and Head of European Internet research. Giles has 21 years of investment banking experience, with the last 17 spent in equity research. Giles re-joined Jefferies in February 2012 as part of the acquisition of Hoare Govett from RBS, where he had spent two years in the same role. Prior to joining RBS, Giles spent one year as a generalist analyst at Coronation Capital and three years in technology M&A at Jefferies. Giles started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he trained as a chartered accountant before moving internally into the telecoms corporate finance team. Giles has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Leeds.

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