Jerome Touze, 36, is the Co Founder and COO of WAYN.com (Lastminute.com Group), the largest travel and lifestyle social media platform with over 23 million members worldwide and growing at over 2,500 members daily. The platform generates over 50 million visitors annually.
He launched WAYN.com in September 2002 in London. He and the Management Team secured $15,000 of seed capital from the Founder of Friends Reunited and grew the audience to 1 million users in less than 12 months.
In 2006, he led a partial sale of the business to DFJ Esprit, a Venture Capitalist firm based in Cambridge, for $11 million and attracting investment from eminent Internet Founders such as Brent Hoberman (last...