Edward Thorn

Telecommunications Mergers & Acquisitions Specialist

Location: United States, Caribbean and Latin America

Professional: Ed provides specialist consulting services for Golding Consulting Limited in the Caribbean.  He has completed hundreds of telecom and cable TV M&A deals for clients in the US, Caribbean, Latin America and Europe. His interests range from traditional communications technologies to VoIP, WiMax, IPTV and new digital media.

Earlier he was Director of M&A for the international law firm Cremades, Calvo-Sotelo based in Madrid. Before that he co-founded Worldport Communications, a Netherlands-based fixed-line operator subsequently sold to Energis for over $500 million.

Ed began his career by founding Cable Properties, a cable TV M&A advisory in the United States. His clients have included AT&T Latin America, GTE (now Verizon), TCI, Advent, TeleKabel, US Cable Group, Sevillana de Electricidad, All America Cable and Radio, Cable TV Dominicana, Sierra Telephone Group and Teleconnect.

Academic: Ed earned an AB in History with a minor in Communications from the University of California, Berkeley where he also studied communications law at Boalt Hall School of Law. He is fluent in Spanish.

Updated: November 2007

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