Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman read French and German at New College, Oxford.
During a series of post-university jobs in media and strategy, he was constantly thinking of his own business ideas. Turning to the internet, Brent Hoberman decided the service he would most like would be one that would help him do everything at the last minute, and lastminute.com was born. The business became one of the most successful and high-profile symbols of the dotcom boom in the late 1990s and was sold to US online rival Travelocity for £577 million in 2005.

Hoberman founded VC-backed intenet startup, mydeco.com, an online furniture and interior design site that launched in Feb 2008.