Hornby Plc announced the appointment of Henry de Zoete as Non-Executive Director. Henry de Zoete is an entrepreneur and alumnus of renowned Silicon Valley start-up accelerator Y Combinator. In 2014, he co-founded The Big Deal which uses tech to facilitate collective bargaining for consumers.

In 2018, he went on to establish Look After My Bills, a tech start-up, which became the auto-switching service in the UK, saving families money on their gas and electricity. After raising global investment and securing the best deal in the history of BBC's Dragons' Den, Look After My Bills was acquired by GoCo Group PLC (owners of GoCompare) in July 2019.