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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. ==Current business activities== Brent Hoberman remained CEO of lastminute.com through 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 〔http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/movers_and_shakers/article3300728.ece〕 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, Brent co-founded PROfounders Capital () with Michael Birch, Peter Dubens, Jonnie Goodwin, Rogan Angelini-Hurll and Sean Seton-Rogers. The fund invests in early stage internet investors, and in 2010 invested in start-up Made.com, a joint venture between mydeco.com and founder Ning Li. Hoberman was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to entrepreneurship.〔(2015 New Year Honours List )〕 Hoberman is also a co-founder of FoundersForum〔(FoundersForum )〕 which is a private network for digital and technology entrepreneurs. Founders Forum has been hosting invite-only events in London since 2006 and has since 2011 expanded to events in other countries such as the US, Brazil, India, Turkey and China. Speakers at the events have included prominent figures from the technology sector like Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman and Arianna Huffington. The events are by invitation only and Hoberman states that Founders Forum is a "meritocracy" and "Its anything but an old boys club".〔(Hoberman, Brent - My Tech Week — Knitting the Threads Together )〕 The 2015 London event has been criticised for not supporting female entrepreneurs. Jemima Kiss, the Head of Technology〔(Jemima Kiss - Head of Technology Reporting Team )〕 of the Guardian wrote〔(Kiss, Jemima - So, I'm not the only woman to despair about institutional sexism in tech )〕 about the lack of representation by women at the June 2015 London event. Kiss's article states that there were 68 men speakers and 4 women speakers at the London 2015 event, further that some of the female attendees that Kiss spoke to said they "can’t talk about it for fear of losing their funding" and that "No one wanted to speak on record, lest they lose their invite to the next event" and that "Two male executives I spoke to didn’t want to rock the boat by complaining about the lack of female talent". One of the women who were at the event, the angel investor Sherry Coutu expressed her view on Twitter and asked, with reference to one of the panels, "where are the women".〔(Coutu, Sherry - Where are the women on this panel? #fflondon )〕 Hoberman responded to Jemima Kiss's article about Founders Forum by publishing a letter〔(Hoberman, Brent - Founders Forum and gender in tech )〕 in the Guardian in which he states that: Founders Forum has a published criteria which they stick to and that the headline of Kiss's article had missed the cause and effect of the gender imbalance in tech. He also states that "Not believing in tokenism does not make an event institutionally sexist." and "would welcome an intelligent debate on this, just as we would on diversity in tech in general – which goes beyond gender." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brent Hoberman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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