Kelly departs Mydeco for Rackspace's European push

Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

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.

blog comments powered by Disqus