Martha Lane Fox Biography

Martha Lane Fox Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho CBE is a British businesswoman, philanthropist, and public servant. Martha co-founded Lastminute.com in the dotcom boom of the early 2000s and has subsequently served on public service digital projects. She is a board member of Channel 4 mydeco.com, Marks & Spencer and chairs the board of the digital skills charity Go ON UK. Martha joined the House of Lords as a crossbencher on 26 March 2013 becoming its youngest female member. She was also appointed as Chancellor of the Open University as of 2014. Martha was among 50 leading female entrepreneurs and business women to sign an anti-Brexit letter this week urging Britons to opt to stay in the EU. She is hugely influential in the business and enterprise space. Named one of Startups.co.uk’s top 10 UK female entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter with over 186,000

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