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David Kelly Chief Executive Officer
David was previously Chief Operating Officer / VP Operations at eBay Inc. Prior to joining eBay, David was Chief Operating Officer at lastminute.com where he worked closely with Brent and Martha, and Operations Director at Amazon.co.uk. David is excited to be launching a start-up and now understands the value of the colour wheel!
mydeco was founded in February 2007 by Brent Hoberman. Brent co-founded lastminute.com with Martha Lane Fox in 1998.
Brent was CEO from inception, and the company raised £120 million in an IPO 18 months after the site launched. Seven years later, the ground breaking travel and leisure website had acquired 14 businesses and was sold for $1.1 billion. Brent is Executive Chairman of mydeco, non-executive Chairman of WAYN (a travel and leisure social network with over 9 million members), a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group and also acts as Governor of University of the Arts College, London. Brent is also an angel investor and has invested in seed rounds in amongst others: moveme.com, viagogo, t5m, imagini.net, academia.eu.
mydeco is now 35 people strong, and we live in Victoria, London. We've got a passionate and talented founding team on board, with experience ranging from Community-building and 3D Design to Interior Designers and Architects.
