Brent Hoberman
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Brent Hoberman, together with Martha Lane Fox, founded Lastminute.com in 1998, an online travel and gift business that floated at the peak of the dot-com bubble and managed to survive the subsequent burst of the bubble.
After building revenues more successfully than his peers, Hoberman was a survivor of the bubble and remained as CEO of Lastminute.com Ltd. The company was acquired by Sabre who purchased the company’s equity and bond debt for £577 million (including additional gross debt of approximately £79 million and estimated cash at bank in hand of approximately £72 million). In 2006, Hoberman handed over the CEO position to Ian McCaig. He now holds the position of chairman and chief strategic officer of lastminute.com.
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[edit] Current business activities
Hoberman founded another VC-backed internet startup, mydeco.com, an online interiors site.[1] Hoberman is a Governor of the University of the Arts London and a Non-Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group. In 2007, Hoberman took on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of wayn.com - a travel and leisure social network. He is also an angel investor in several internet companies including viagogo, wayn.com, wahanda.com, moveme.com, t5m.com, imagini.net, and Wigadoo.[citation needed]
[edit] Education
Hoberman was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then Eton College and subsequently at New College, Oxford.
[edit] Public and Political Activities
Hoberman is a member of the New Enterprise Council, a group of entrepreneurs who advise the Conservative Party (UK) on policies related to the needs of business. [1]
