Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman is Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum; a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a Co-Founder and was Founding Chairman of Smartup, Grip & made.com, - a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent Co-Founded firstminute capital, a European based seed venture fund backed by some of the worlds top founders. Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998, and sold to Sabre for $1.1bn in 2005. Companies he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund) and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist. Brent is a YGL and Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassador. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.