Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane -Fox of Soho CBE ( born February 10, 1973 in Oxford) is a British business woman and trustee of several non-profit associations, which has participated in several e- commerce projects and investigations as chairman. She is board member of Channel 4, mydeco.com and Marks & Spencer and lastminute.com co-founded. Since 2013 she is a member of the House of Lords.
Youth
Lane Fox is the daughter of the author and historian Robin Lane Fox. She went to Oxford High School and Westminster School and studied Ancient and Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Business Opportunities
After college, she became interested in acting and prison authorities, but they took up a position at the time of consulting firm Spectrum, where she dealt with IT companies and media companies. Their first project was for British Telecom, entitled What is the Internet?, Where she met Brent Hoberman.
In 1998 they founded with Brent Hoberman lastminute.com, an online travel agency and gifts mail order, which gained great attention to peak of the dotcom bubble. On 20 November 2003 she resigned as Managing Director of Lastminute.com. The company has survived the dotcom crash and was purchased in 2005 for £ 557 million by Sabre Holdings. The personal shareholding of Lane Fox's at this time was 13 million pounds.
On 28 December 2003, made famous by The Sunday Telegraph, the Fox will take over along with Galen Weston, owner of Selfridges the daily operations of this company. After her 2005, the idea of a karaoke bar in the style of Tokyo told Julian Douglas, the director of a company specializing in advertising, she opened with Nick Thistleton such a club under the name of Lucky Voice Soho London. In 2007 she became a non-executive director at Marks & Spencer. She is also on the Executive of Channel 4 and mydeco.com, a start-up company of her colleagues Brent Hoberman.
On 16 June 2009, it was Digital Inclusion Champion by the British government and led a two-year campaign to get used to the British people to computers. She thought, who does not get involved on-line, can not be a real member of society. 22 March 2010: its role in government was expanded, it became known that she would a new Digital Public Services Unit set up within the Cabinet Office. In June 2010, they should also advise as UK Digital Champion, the government, such as public online services can help deliver more efficient services and she became a member of the Cabinet Office 's Efficiency and Reform Board.
Charitable activities
Lane Fox is spoken out for human rights, women's rights and social justice. In 2007 she founded Antigone, a trust for the support of British charities. As a patron of Reprieve she sat down, inter alia, for the dismissal of the previously resident in the UK Binyam Mohammed from Guantanamo Bay. She is also a patron of Camfed in the fight against poverty, HIV and AIDS through the education of girls and young women in Africa. Together with Cherie Blair and Joanna Trollope, she supported financially the Orange Prize for women's fiction after the phone network providers Orange this is no longer supported as a sponsor.
Appreciation
Lane Fox was 2013 Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE ) for her services in the digital economy and charities. In February 2013, it was noisy estimate of Woman 's Hour on BBC Radio 4 one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK. In the same month it was announced that it would get as a life peer with the title Baroness Lane -Fox of Soho as a Cross Bencher a seat in the House of Lords.
Private life
Lane Fox lives with her partner, a television producer named Chris Gorell Barnes, in Marylebone, London.