Simon Murdoch

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Simon Murdoch is founder and CEO of DoYouSpeak Ltd, a company running two language-related web services: doyouspeak.com (an online English language school providing multimedia language lessons given by native English-speaking teachers) and friendsabroad.com ( a language exchange website for people who want to practise their language skills and develop friendships with people from other parts of the world).
Previously, Simon was VP Europe of Amazon.com. He managed huge growth from founding of his own Internet bookselling company Bookpages in late 1996, through acquisition by Amazon.com in April 1998, launch of Amazon.co.uk in October 1998 and ultra-high growth through 1999.
He is also co-founder and partner of Episode 1 Partners Ltd, an early stage technology investment company and a business angel having invested and advised companies such as Betfair and LoveFilm.

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