After Dinner Speakers: Martha Lane-Fox, John P Kotter, Isley Brothers
Martha Lane Fox is the High profile Chief executive of Last Minute.com. The story of Lastminute.com is one of the most publicised dot com stories around. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange and New York's NASDAQ on 14 March 2000. Within days the initial price of 380p had climbed to a peak of 555. At one point, Lane Fox was worth over £50m. After its first day as a public company Lastminute was valued at £733m placing it ahead of Debenhams and Iceland.
Despite a sudden freefall in share price Last Minute has survived and together with co founder Brent Hoberman Martha has turned Last Minute .com into perhaps the second best known e-tailer after Amazon.
Martha Lane Fox exudes confidence and is a riveting speaker on high-octane business issues.