Interesting move in the Cloud computing/hosting world. Hosted supplier Rackspace has hired David Kelly, cofounder/CEO of mydeco, the online furniture and interior decoration firm he started with Brent Hobermann, the Lastminute.com founder. Mydeco was a a Rackspace customer.
Kelly is a former Amazon and eBay European operations director and will help Rackspace expand into the EMA region against Google and Amazon.
He replaces Brian Thomson heads back to the US office.