Brent Hoberman

Brent Shawzin Hoberman CBE (born 25 November 1968) is a British entrepreneur. Together with Martha Lane Fox, he founded Lastminute.com in 1998, an online travel and gift business. As CEO, Hoberman successively floated and later sold Lastminute.com Ltd to Sabre who purchased the company’s equity and bond debt for £577 million (including additional gross debt of approximately £79 million and estimated cash at bank in hand of approximately £72 million). In 2006, Hoberman handed over the CEO position to Ian McCaig, although he remained as chairman and chief strategic officer until 2007.

Hoberman remained CEO of lastminute.com throughout 2005, until April 2006 when he handed over the CEO position to Ian McCaig and took the position of chairman and chief strategy officer. He stepped down as chief strategy officer and chairman in January 2007.

Hoberman founded VC-backed internet startup, mydeco.com, an online furniture and interior design site providing 3D technology for consumers to design their own rooms online in 2007 and the website launched in February 2008.

Hoberman is a governor of the University of the Arts London and a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group. In 2007, Hoberman took on the role of non-executive chairman of wayn.com – a travel and leisure social network. In December 2009, he stepped down from the board of wayn.com. He is also an angel investor in several internet companies, including Viagogo, erepublik, wayn.com and academia.edu. Hoberman joined The Business Council for Britain in July 2009.

In 2009, Hoberman was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's Global Young Leaders for the UK. In July 2009, Hoberman co-founded PROfounders Capital [1] with Michael Birch, Peter Dubens, Jonnie Goodwin, Rogan Angelini-Hurll and Sean Seton-Rogers. The fund invests in early stage internet investors.

Hoberman was co-founder and chairman of Made.com, a joint venture between mydeco.com and founder Ning Li. On December 29, 2015 it was reported that Hoberman was leaving PROFounders.

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