Martha Lane Fox
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Martha Lane Fox (born February 10 1973) is a British e-commerce business woman, daughter of Robin Lane Fox and great-niece of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey.
She was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University.
Ms. Lane Fox, together with Brent Hoberman, founded Lastminute.com in 1998, an online travel and gift business that floated at the peak of the dot-com bubble, and managed to survive the subsequent burst of the bubble.
She is also a trustee of Reprieve, a prison reform charity, and a director of a nightclub called Century.
On November 20, 2003, it was announced that she would step down as managing director of Lastminute so that she might "explore other challenges", though she remains a non-executive director. She was replaced by Ian McCaig, Lastminute's chief operating officer.
On December 28, 2003, it was revealed by The Sunday Telegraph that Ms. Lane Fox would become "right hand woman" of Galen Weston, owner of Selfridges, and take over the day-to-day running of the business.
In May 2004 she was seriously injured in a car accident in the tourist resort of Essaouira, near Marrakesh in Morocco, whilst holidaying there.
External links
- A BBC News interview with Ms. Lane Fox (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2124521.stm)
- A BBC News article about her stepping down as MD (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3222504.stm)
- lastminute.com website (http://www.lastminute.com/)