Biography

Gaby Darbyshire is the Chief Operating Officer of Gawker Media. Gaby has been largely involved in the new media world since moving to San Francisco from London in 1999. In a short break from the web in 2003-4, she helped launch Oriel Wines. Previously, she was Director of Strategy at 4charity.com in San Francisco, and in the strategy and legal affairs department of eGroups (now Yahoo!Groups).

Before decamping stateside, Gaby was a barrister in London, where she specialised in environmental cases, and founded and ran a non-profit supporting the appeals of death row inmates in the Commonwealth; she then did a stint for several years as a management consultant advising Fortune 500 clients in the high tech and financial services industries.

She holds a MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a law degree from City University, and is a member of the Bar of England and Wales.