Mark Opzoomer

{{Short description|British-Canadian business executive (born 1957)}}

{{Infobox person | image = | image_size = 150px | | name = Mark Opzoomer | caption = Mark Opzoomer | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1957|07}}<ref name="CH_Ozoomer">{{cite web |title=OPZOOMER, Mark William — Appointments |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/OnpKqdyvfqAOXlCzkq2XvVbC5t0/appointments |website=Companies House |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref> | birth_place = | citizenship = {{plainlist| * United Kingdom<ref name="RNS_2007">{{cite web |title=Statement regarding Rambler Media Appoints New Executive Management |url=https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/Statement-regarding-Rambler-Media-Appoints-New-Executive-Management-4Q6I8BPLS1VUN95.html |website=LSE |date=15 March 2007 |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref> * Canada<ref name="RNS_2007" /><ref name="rmgProfile">[http://www.ramblermedia.com/corporate-profile/corporate-governance/?id=iB6C7D017 Mark Opzoomer corporate profile on Rambler Media website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805233437/http://www.ramblermedia.com/corporate-profile/corporate-governance/?id=iB6C7D017 |date=August 5, 2008 }}</ref> }} | occupation = {{plainlist| * Business executive * Company director }} | known_for = Chief Executive Officer, Rambler Media Group | spouse = Rosemary Leith (div.) | networth = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Mark William Opzoomer''' (born July 1957) is a British-Canadian business executive and company director.<ref name="CH_Ozoomer" /> He served as managing director and regional vice-president of Yahoo! Europe in the early 2000s,<ref name="Guardian_Yahoo2001" /> and later became chief executive officer of Rambler Media (2007–2009).<ref name="RNS_2007" /><ref name="Reuters_Rambler2009">{{cite news |title=Rambler Media CEO, chairman to step down |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/business/media-telecom/rambler-media-ceo-chairman-to-step-down-idUSBNG64277/ |work=Reuters |date=18 February 2009 |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref>

==Education== Opzoomer graduated with an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. He qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC in 1981.<ref name="RNS_2007" /><ref name="yaeuPressRelease">[http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/pr/release/preu_new_md.html Yahoo! Europe Appoints Mark Opzoomer as Managing Director]</ref>

==Career== ===Early career=== Opzoomer has held senior roles in media, telecommunications and technology companies, including positions at Virgin Communications, Sega Europe and publishing company Hodder Headline.<ref name="RNS_2007" />

===Yahoo! Europe=== In July 2001, Yahoo! announced that Opzoomer would join Yahoo! Europe as managing director and regional vice-president, effective in September 2001.<ref name="Guardian_Yahoo2001">{{cite news |last=Vickers |first=Amy |title=Opzoomer to head up Yahoo! Europe |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jul/12/yahoo.digitalmedia |work=The Guardian |date=12 July 2001 |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref><ref name="Guardian_Yahoo2003">{{cite news |last=Gibson |first=Owen |title=Yahoo! profits boost European plans |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/09/yahoo.digitalmedia |work=The Guardian |date=9 October 2003 |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref>

===Rambler Media=== Opzoomer joined the board of Rambler Media as a non-executive director in 2005 and chaired its audit committee.<ref name="RNS_2007" /> He was appointed chief executive officer in March 2007.<ref name="RNS_2007" /><ref name="Reuters_RamblerCEO2007">{{cite news |title=Rambler names former Yahoo Europe exec as new CEO |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/world/rambler-names-former-yahoo-europe-exec-as-new-ceo-idUSL15406694/ |work=Reuters |date=9 August 2007 |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref> In February 2009, Rambler Media announced that Opzoomer would step down as chief executive effective 28 February 2009.<ref name="Reuters_Rambler2009" />

===Later work and board roles=== Opzoomer has been a director of Bond Capital Partners Ltd, a private investment firm.<ref name="CH_Ozoomer" /><ref name="Vext_Circular2025">{{cite report |title=Management Information Circular (as at November 7, 2025) |url=https://s28.q4cdn.com/207566713/files/doc_financials/2025/q3/2025-vext-science-mic.pdf |publisher=Vext Science, Inc. |date=2025 |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref>

He joined the board of Vext Science, Inc. in February 2022 and was appointed non-executive chairman in August 2024.<ref name="Vext_Circular2025" />

Opzoomer is also listed by the software company Trint as its board chair.<ref name="Trint_About">{{cite web |title=About us |url=https://trint.com/about-us |website=Trint |access-date=7 January 2026}}</ref>

==Personal life== He married Rosemary Leith, later a founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation; the couple had three children, after which she left the financial sector, co-founding a start-up during the dot-com bubble.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee leaves wife, begins new relationship |url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/inventor-sir-tim-berners-lee-leaves-wife-begins-050527549.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Yahoo News |date=23 May 2011 |language=en-SG}}</ref>

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