Certainly one of Britain’s best-known entrepreneurs is to tackle one other boardroom function by chairing a digital advertising company owned by Carlyle, the personal fairness big.
Sky Information understands that Tim Weller, the founding father of Incisive Media and former chairman of Trustpilot, has agreed to grow to be chairman of Incubeta.
The appointment of Mr Weller, who holds a portfolio of board positions together with chairing on-line structure platform Resi, is known to have been introduced internally this week.
Carlyle backed Incubeta 18 months in the past at a £200m valuation and has since supported plenty of acquisitions.
His appointment is the newest in an extended line of board roles for Mr Weller.
He oversaw Trustpilot’s £1bn-plus inventory market flotation in 2021 and steered the sale of The Goat, one other digital company, to WPP Group.
Mr Weller additionally sat on the board of Superawesome, the kids’s expertise firm, which was offered to Epic Video games in 2020.
Among the many public firm board roles he has held are chairing Tremor Worldwide, an promoting expertise firm.
Two years in the past, he as a result of chairman of Venetus, an adtech agency targeted on the playing and leisure industries.
Carlyle declined to remark.
