Martha Lane Fox

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Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho CBE (born February 10, 1973 in Oxford ) is a British businesswoman and trustee of several non-profit organizations who has chaired several e-commerce projects and investigations. She is a board member of Channel 4 , mydeco.com and Marks & Spencer and co-founded lastminute.com . She has been a member of the House of Lords since 2013 .

youth

Lane Fox is the daughter of writer and historian Robin Lane Fox . She went to Oxford High School and Westminster School and studied Ancient and Modern History at Magdalen College , Oxford.

Business career

After college, she became interested in acting and prison management, but she took a position at the consulting firm Spectrum , where she worked with computer and media companies. Her first project was for British Telecom , What is the Internet ?, where she met Brent Hoberman .

In 1998, they co-founded lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman, an online travel agency and gift company that gained a lot of attention during the peak of the dot-com bubble . On November 20, 2003, she resigned as Managing Director of Lastminute.com. The company survived the dotcom crash and was bought by Saber Holdings in 2005 for £ 557 million . Lane Fox's personal equity interest at the time was £ 13 million.

On December 28, 2003, The Sunday Telegraph announced that Fox would take over the day-to-day operations of this company together with Galen Weston , the owner of Selfridges . After Julian Douglas , the director of a company specializing in advertising, announced the idea of ​​a Tokyo- style karaoke bar in 2005 , she and Nick Thistleton opened such a club under the name Lucky Voice London Soho. In 2007 she became a non-executive director at Marks & Spencer . She is also on the management board of Channel 4 and mydeco.com, a start-up company run by her colleague Brent Hoberman.

On June 16, 2009, she became the Government's Digital Inclusion Champion and led a two-year campaign to get the British population used to computers. She thought that if you didn't get involved online, you couldn't really be a member of society. On March 22, 2010, her role in government expanded when it was announced that she would establish a new Digital Public Services Unit within the Cabinet Office . In June 2010, as UK Digital Champion, she was also tasked with advising the government on how on-line public services could help provide more efficient services and she became a member of the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Board .

Charity activities

Lane Fox is an advocate for human rights, women's rights and social justice. In 2007 she founded Antigone, a trust in support of UK charities. As the patroness of Reprieve , she campaigned, among other things, for the dismissal of Binyam Mohammed, who previously lived in Great Britain, from Guantanamo Bay . She is also the Patroness of Camfed in the fight against poverty, HIV and AIDS through the education of girls and young women in Africa. Together with Cherie Blair and Joanna Trollope , she financially supported the Orange Prize for Women's Fiction after the telephone network provider Orange no longer supported it as a sponsor.

Appreciation

Lane Fox was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2013 for her services to the digital economy and charities . In February 2013, she was one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Britain, according to Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 . On March 25, 2013, she was promoted to Life Peer with the title Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho , of Soho in the City of Westminster , and has since been a crossbencher member of the House of Lords .

Private life

Lane Fox lives with her partner, television producer Chris Gorell Barnes , in Marylebone , London.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard: Martha Lane Fox joins M&S . This is money. May 22, 2007. Retrieved November 24, 2009.
  2. ↑ Maija Pesola: Saber agrees to buy Lastminute for £ 577m . In: FT.com , May 11, 2005. Retrieved January 30, 2012. 
  3. ↑ About us . Race Online 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2009.
  4. ^ Digital Britain , BBC News. June 16, 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2009. 
  5. ^ Maggie Brown: Martha Lane Fox - what she'll do as the UK's digital inclusion champion , The Guardian. July 16, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2009. 
  6. ↑ UK digital champion, Martha Lane Fox, wants to get everyone of working age online by 2012 , BBC News. July 12, 2010. 
  7. ↑ "I don't think you can be a proper citizen of our society in the future if you are not engaged online." UK | Magazine | The internet's conscientious objectors , BBC News. August 6, 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2009. 
  8. ↑ Rebecca Thomson: Gordon Brown turns his focus to digital economy , Computer Weekly. March 22, 2010. 
  9. ↑ Antigone . Antigone. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  10. ↑ Camfed on BBC Radio 4 this Christmas Day ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Camfed @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uk.camfed.org
  11. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/08/orange-prize-private-donors-sponsor
  12. ^ The London Gazette : No. 60367 (Supplement), p. 7 , HMSO, December 29, 2012.
  13. ↑ BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour Power list
  14. ^ House of Lords, Official Website - New peers announced . Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  15. ↑ James Ashton: Martha Lane Fox back . In: The Times , July 19, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2010. 
  16. ^ The London Gazette : No. 60461, p. 6071 , HMSO, March 27, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lane Fox, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lane Fox, Martha, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British businesswoman, IT consultant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford