Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman (photo by Dave Winer)

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, Brent Hoberman was hailed as a survivor of the bubble, and remained as CEO of lastminute.com Ltd. through 2005, when the company was acquired by Sabre who accepted to repurchase the company’s equity and bonds debt for £577 million (including additional gross debt as at 20 July 2005 of approximately £79 million and estimated cash at bank in hand at 14 July 2005 of approximately £72 million) until April 2006 when he handed over the CEO position to Ian McCaig and took on the role of Chairman and Chief Strategic Officer.

Current Business Activities

Brent has most recently founded another VC-backed internet startup, mydeco, which launched in February 2007 - the online interiors site that intends to revolutionise the way we shop and design for our homes, encouraging consumers to spend, socialise and play house all at the same time.

Brent is a Governor of the University of the Arts College, London and a Non-Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group. From January 2007 he took on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of wayn.com - a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. He is also an angel investor in several internet companies including Viagogo, Wayn.com and moveme.com.

Education

Brent Hoberman was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then Eton College and subsequently at New College, Oxford.