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, 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 July 20, 2005 of approximately £79 million and estimated cash at bank in hand at July 14, 2005 of approximately £72 million) until April 2006 when he handed over the CEO position to Ian McCaig. He now holds the position of chairman and chief strategic officer of lastminute.com.

Hoberman, a significant investor, is to become non-executive chairman of the travel-oriented social networking site WAYN.com[1].

Brent Hoberman was educated at Eton College and subsequently at New College, Oxford.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Sunday Times_(UK), Lastminute’s founder backs ‘travel MySpace’. November 26, 2006.
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