Dr. Simon Murdoch

Non-Executive Chairman

Experienced as both an Internet entrepreneur and an investor, Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in ‘96 and sold it to Amazon in ‘98. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. In 2000 Simon co-founded and became a partner of Episode 1 Partners, an early stage technology VC that managed the $100m Chase Episode 1 Fund. Episode 1 invested in nine businesses, notablyBetfair.com. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of Video Island (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm) and Zoopla! where he is currently a director.

Chris Öhlund

Non Executive Director

Chris has 15 years logistics and 10 years internet experience in both Europe and the US. As CEO, Chris led DPD, an €800m market-leading logistics company in Germany into its most successful era during its 30-year history. As a member of the executive board and SVP Europe at Geodis S.A., Chris turned around the European Division (€1 billion revenue) from a five-year streak of losses to break even in ‘06. Previously, he was part of the team that transformed QXL Ricardo plc from a business with a market cap of under £750k to an eventual sale to Naspers for £946m. Chris’s first start-up experience came with Webvan, where he ran the first east coast operating site and built an online business with a run-rate of $100m+. Chris serves (since 2003) as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of publicly listed ricardo.de AG