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Brent Hoberman
Author: Stephan Salat
Brent Hoberman co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox. As CEO, Brent increased profits substantially, with gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak - the IPO was 40 times oversubscribed and the price increase during the process was a record for a UK company. Lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after its IPO, supplementing the annual growth of the core brand, which was over 100% from 1998 - 2004. In 2005, lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.
Brent also founded mydeco, an innovative online service for home design and furniture.
He is Governor of the University of the Arts College, London and a Non-Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group. Since January 2007, he has taken on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of Wayn.com, a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. Brent is also an angel investor in several internet companies.
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