Iain Osborne

Iain William Leonard Osborne (born 1957) is a British marketer. Osborne was the first marketing director at Yahoo! Europe, which he grew from startup to being the leading broadband ISP outside North America, creating a new vision for and transformation of the world's digital economies. Awards include Best New Media Brand, Best European ISP, Internet Superstar

Internet Years In 1997, Osborne joined startup Yahoo! Europe management as the first Marketing Director. During this time and on a startup budget, Yahoo! grew to become the most popular Internet Brand and website across Europe. Osborne and Heather Killen conducted and presented the industry's first European consumer research on Internet Users that ultimately established the commercial potential of Online Advertising in Europe.

Osborne went on to become co-founder and managing director of Chello Broadband NV, the first commercial ISP to introduce high speed Broadband Internet Access in 6 European countries.

Osborne founded Innovater BV that in 2003 led the launch of WiFi across Europe on behalf of the Industry Association Wi-Fi Alliance of Redwood, CA. Subsequently, in 2003, he founded VONOS, a company dedicated to Voice and Video over broadband services. He later joined XS4ALL to run the VoIP digital telephony services.