Education
He graduated from the University of Cambridge and holds an Master of Business Administration from European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires).
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Humphrey Cobbold
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In September 2009, Humphrey Cobbold began his position as the Chief Executive Officer of Wiggle Limited., a Portsmouth-based online retailer, and experience immense growth during his reign of the company. He headed the bicycle online retailer during some trying times, including during the period when Bridgepoint was in the process of acquiring Wiggle Limited. In late 2013, Cobbold departed from Wiggle as its Chief Executive Officer and in September of that year, his successor would be Stefan Barden.
While Cobbold captained Wiggle Limited. the company saw its annual sales revenues increase from 33 million pounds to a little over 140 million pounds.
Cobbold described managing the company while it was experiencing extremely fast and high growth like "trying to ride a tiger". Upon leaving Wiggle Limited. as its Chief Executive Officer, Cobbold stated:
“I have had the privilege to work with a truly fabulous group of colleagues and business partners over the last four years.
The time is now right for someone else to lead the peloton and take Wiggle forward to future success.”
He has since been linked to a bid to buy the internet retailer sofa.com.
Membership
He is a former chairman of Fish4, a British recruitment website, as well as the Director of Strategic Development and Executive Committee member of Trinity Mirror.
