Until co-founding Episode 1 Partners, Dr Simon Murdoch was Vice President Europe of Amazon.com. He founded Bookpages in late 1996 which he sold to Amazon.com in April 1998. He managed the hugely successful launch of Amazon.co.uk service in October 1998 and oversaw the growth of Amazon.de through 1999.

Prior to Amazon.com, Simon was Managing Director of a UK-based software house, Triptych Systems. He has a BA in Physics and a PhD in Computer Science and Expert Systems.

Prior to co-founding Episode 1 Richard Tahta held senior management positions with Amazon.com and Thomson Financial Services.

As an entrepreneur he has built and sold four successful information services businesses in the US and UK over the last fifteen years. Richard was originally an investment banker with Dillon Read in New York and has a BA in History and an MBA in Finance.