Brent Hoberman
Brent Hoberman is the founder and former CEO of Lastminute.com.
Career
In 1998, with Baroness Lane-Fox, Hoberman founded online travel and leisure retailer Lastminute.com and in 2005 sold the company to Travelocity for £577 in 2005.
Since the sale of Lastminute, he has focused on a number of start-ups including made.com and PROfounders Capital.[1]
Letter to the Telegraph
On 1 April 2015 Hoberman was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[2]
Affiliations
- Guardian Media Group, non-executive board director[3]
- TalkTalk PLC, non-executive board director
- easyCar, non-executive board director
- Shazam, non-executive board director
- UK Business Trade Ambassador[4]
Notes
- ↑ James Quinn New Year Honours: Brent Hoberman and James Caan awarded CBEs Telegraph, 20 December 2014, accessed 2 April 2015.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.
- ↑ PROfounders Capital Team, accessed 2 April 2015.
- ↑ Crunch Base Brent Hoberman, accessed 2 April 2015.
