Karen Kemble-Diaz

Director Wowcher

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Karen Kemble-Diaz is a long-serving director of the group behind Wowcher, the UK online deals and vouchers business. Companies House records her on the boards of Excalibur Bidco and LivingSocial Limited since November 2015, when Exponent Private Equity formed Excalibur Group around Wowcher and the UK and Irish operations of LivingSocial, and on the boards of the Spabreaks.com companies since the group acquired that business in October 2025. BusinessCloud has described her as a co-founder of Wowcher. Industry directories list her as Wowcher’s chief operating officer, but no first-party source confirming that title was found, so this profile records the directorships the public register establishes.

Career Highlights

• Director of Excalibur Bidco Limited and LivingSocial Limited since 26 November 2015, the month Exponent Private Equity acquired Wowcher and LivingSocial’s UK and Ireland operations.
• Director of Excalibur Silver Bidco Limited since 8 February 2017 and of Wowcher West Limited since its incorporation on 9 April 2019.
• Appointed on 6 October 2025 to the boards of five Spabreaks.com companies, following Excalibur Group’s acquisition of the spa booking platform.
• Appointed a director of Spa Seekers Ltd on 17 August 2026.
• Named by BusinessCloud in 2020 as a co-founder of Wowcher alongside Roland Bryan.

Professional Journey

Wowcher, a London-based deals marketplace, was bought by DMG Media, the Daily Mail’s parent, in 2011. BusinessCloud, writing in 2020, described Kemble-Diaz as having founded the business with Roland Bryan that year, and credited it with more than 19 million subscribers and 8,000 live deals at the time; Wikipedia traces the original site back to 2009.

In 2015 DMG sold a majority stake in Wowcher to Exponent Private Equity, which combined it with the UK and Irish operations of LivingSocial to form Excalibur Group. Kemble-Diaz became a director of Excalibur Bidco and of LivingSocial Limited on 26 November 2015, joined the board of Excalibur Silver Bidco in 2017, and has been a director of Wowcher West Limited since it was incorporated in April 2019.

The group has since kept growing by acquisition. It bought the Glasgow deals site 5pm in 2025 and, in October 2025, Spabreaks.com, a spa booking platform founded in 2007; Kemble-Diaz was appointed to the boards of the Spabreaks companies on 6 October 2025, alongside Excalibur Group chief executive George Oborne. In August 2026 she also became a director of Spa Seekers Ltd.

Education

No education record was found in any primary or first-party source.