Silicon Valley reporter for The Economist is leaving

Martin Giles, the Silicon Valley correspondent for The Economist, has resigned to join the investment firm Wing Venture Capital.

He will start in March.

“I am thrilled to join Wing and to help the firm pursue its mission of building category-defining companies,” said Giles in a statement. “I have reported extensively on many industries being transformed by innovative newcomers. Venture Capital will add a whole new dimension to my affinity with startups and the incredible entrepreneurs behind them.”

Giles joined The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1988. He then moved to Paris as the newspaper’s European business correspondent, before returning to London as finance editor.

Giles subsequently spent several years on the business side of The Economist Group, including as managing director of the group’s US operations. During this time he was awarded an executive MBA from The University of Chicago’s Booth Graduate School of Business.

In 2008 he returned to the editorial staff of The Economist, becoming the newspaper’s management correspondent in New York. Since 2009 he has been the U.S. technology correspondent in San Francisco. He has written special reports on numerous subjects during his career at The Economist, including European business, international banking, consumer electronics and cybersecurity.