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Iain William Leonard Osborne (born 1957) is one of the world's eminent digital marketers. Osborne was the first marketing director at Yahoo! Europe, Co-Founder and managing director at  chello broadband , the first company to introduce broadband internet in Europe. He was the founder and CEO of Innovater BV leading the launch of WiFi across Europe in 2003 on behalf of the WiFi Alliance.

Early Life and Education
Osborne was born in Ayr in 1957 to Matthew and Anne Osborne and grew up in Ayrshire on the West Coast of Scotland. He attended Belmont Academy before going on to study Social Science at The University of Edinburgh receiving a B.Sc. in 1978. On a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship he studied German Commercial Law at London School of Economics, and obtained a post-graduate diploma in European Marketing and Languages at Heriot-Watt University in 1979. Later in his career, he attended INSEAD on a  Courtauld Scholarship.

Career
Osborne has led a succesful career in Global Marketing within a number of large multinational blue chip companies e.g. Hilton, L'Oreal, Yahoo! Europe. He is the co-founder of numerous award-winning companies championing the development and introduction of mainstream Internet Technologies such as Broadband, WiFi and VoIP across Europe, Australia and Latin America.

Early Career
Starting his career as a Retail Manager at Clarks in 1979, he has held various senior sales and marketing positions in Bata Retail Europe, L'Oreal, Courtaulds PLC before joining Hilton as Director of Product and Brands in 1990.

Internet Years
In 1997, Osborne joined Yahoo! Europe as the first Marketing and Communications Director and original member of the  Yahoo! Europe management team. During this time and on a start-up budget, Yahoo! grew to become the most popular Internet Brand and website across Europe. Whilst at Yahoo!, Osborne is credited for having conducted the industry's first example of consumer research on early Internet Users that ultimately established the commercial potential of Online Advertising in Europe.

Following his success at Yahoo!, he went on to become co-founder and managing directory of Chello Broadband NV, the first commercial ISP to introduce high speed Broadband Internet Access in 6 different European countries. . Also at chello, he led some of the very early research into broadband usage and its impact on changing lifestyles in Europe.

In 2001, he founded Innovator BV that later 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.

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