Brent Hoberman CBE
Accelerate digital transformation with Brent Hoberman, speaker and pioneering entrepreneur. Brent works with global organisations to drive innovation, navigate technological disruption, and build corporate-startup partnerships, delivering billion-dollar expertise from lastminute.com and Founders Factory.
London, United Kingdom
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Brent Hoberman is a pioneering British entrepreneur who transforms digital concepts into billion-dollar businesses while guiding organizations through technological disruption and innovation challenges.
As co-founder of lastminute.com, Brent led the company to a $1.1 billion acquisition by Sabre in 2005. He currently serves as executive chairman of Founders Factory, a venture studio and accelerator, and co-founded firstminute capital, a $270 million seed fund backed by over 80 unicorn founders. His advisory roles span Google Cloud, the UK Government Digital Service, and the World Economic Forum's Digital Europe Group.
Brent helps organizations navigate digital transformation by identifying emerging technologies with commercial potential and implementing effective corporate-startup collaboration models. His experience building and scaling multiple ventures provides practical frameworks for established companies seeking to foster innovation cultures while maintaining operational excellence in rapidly evolving markets.
Audiences gain actionable strategies for identifying disruptive opportunities within their industries, practical approaches to building innovation ecosystems that drive growth, and insights into future technology trends reshaping business landscapes. Brent's presentations blend entrepreneurial wisdom with corporate governance perspective.
Book Brent Hoberman for a rare combination of entrepreneurial vision and practical implementation expertise that transforms how organizations approach innovation.
Brent Hoberman, the pioneering British entrepreneur who transformed lastminute.com into a billion-dollar acquisition, offers organizations practical frameworks for navigating digital disruption through his leadership of Founders Factory and firstminute capital. Book this exceptional innovator to gain actionable strategies for identifying disruptive opportunities and building innovation ecosystems that will transform how your organization approaches technological change.
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