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Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile Lane Fox shot to fame in the late 1990s as the founder of the dot-com travel company lastminute.com, and remained on the company's board until its sale in 2005. Martha Lane Fox earned her place in the Agenda Setters list... [30 Sep 2009]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile Next up in his varied career was a stint running his own venture capital consultancy during the dot-com bubble before heading to lastminute.com as CTO. Nigel Beighton has been CTO of Teletext for the past four years but... [03 Jun 2009]
Mittu Sridhara
CIO Profile Before Ladbrokes he was VP, product marketing and IT at Sabre Holdings, responsible for product strategy and delivery as well as integrating technology acquisitions at the company that provides IT services to the travel industry and has... [02 Jun 2009]
Brent Hoberman
AS Profile Few could have begrudged Brent Hoberman quietly idling off into a life of leisure in 2005 after pocketing £26m from the sale of lastminute.com, the company he co-founded with Martha Lane Fox. Still only 39, Hoberman's... [07 Oct 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile From there, he went on to set up his own venture capital consultancy and advisor business with two partners in the midst of the internet bubble, and joined lastminute.com as CTO, up to its sale to Sabre/Travelocity. [11 Jun 2008]
Smart phone battle: Qwerty vs touchscreen
News Dominic Cameron, technology director at lastminute.com, argued that most people will not need to use a smart phone for huge amounts of text input. Dominic Cameron, technology director, lastminute.com... [22 May 2008]
Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum
Photo From left to right are: Phil Pavitt, group CIO of Transport for London; Rorie Devine; Jane Kimberlin, IT director of Domino's Pizza; Dominic Cameron, technology director at lastminute.com; Chris Broad, head of IM and... [16 Oct 2007]
Skills crisis? What skills crisis?
News After all the arguments had been put on stage, the Jury - which also included Transport for London Group CIO Phil Pavitt, Dominic Cameron director of technology at lastminute.com and Jane Kimberlin IT director Domino's... [15 Oct 2007]
Photos: Celebrating the top CIOs
Photo Lastminute.com CEO Ian McCaig - who started out his career as a Unix programmer - launched the CIO50 report and emphasised the importance of the CIO role and technology to most organisations today. silicon.com launched... [13 Jun 2007]
Mittu Sridhara
CIO Profile Mittu Sridhara is responsible for product strategy and delivery as well as integrating technology acquisitions at Sabre Holdings, which provides IT services to the travel industry and whose own retail brands include Travelocity and... [06 Jun 2007]
Technical Operations: Lastminute Success Case
White Paper lastminute.com is Europe's leading independent travel and leisure website. Lastminute began to seriously study how to leverage available technology (e.g.management and monitoring software) together with... [15 May 2007]
CEOs: Understand IT better - or else
News Speaking at the launch of the report, Ian McCaig, lastminute.com CEO, said governance is key to getting much of the change - which he described as "accelerating, not steady state" - right. CEOs cannot afford to pass the... [05 Mar 2007]
Photos of the month - February 2007
Photo Students had to go through an eight minute grilling by a panel of experienced business gurus, including Peter Jones of Dragons' Den fame and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com. Honda's new Civic Type-R (above)... [01 Mar 2007]
Photos: The business boat race
Photo Pictured here is the panel of judges - including Michael Birch, co-founder and CEO of social networking site Bebo; Peter Jones, entrepreneur and of Dragons' Den fame; and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com -... [21 Feb 2007]
Pixel millionaire makes his next move
News Already Tew has sold more than $120,000 worth of advertising space on the site, including the largest ad to date which was bought by Lastminute.com for $20,000. Alex Tew, the 22-year-old entrepreneur behind The Million... [07 Dec 2006]
