Net-a-Porter.com is the world's leading fashion website, being the first e-tailer to demonstrate digital convergence in action, combining a fashion magazine with original weekly content emailed to half a million women across the globe, with retail sales of the latest designer fashion offerings.
Mark Sebba joined NET-A-PORTER in 2003, to take the business from successful start-up to a mature expanding business with a substantial infrastructure. Mark's background is in finance both as an investment banker and as finance director of two venture capital funded businesses in new media.
In the last five years, sales have grown from £6 million to over £80 million, and will be well over £100m this year. Employees have increased from 40 to 450 covering two continents and space occupied has gone from 15,000 sq ft to some 170,000 sq ft. Last year, EBIT exceeded the total equity capital invested since inception.