Tom Edwards is the Revenue Director of Travelodge. Travelodge is the UK’s largest independent hotelier, with a portfolio of more than 500 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain. Before joining Travelodge in 2013, Tom spent 10 years at Flybe (LON:FLYB), the world’s largest independent regional airline, most recently as Revenue and Network Planning Director. This period saw the company’s UK turnover double, European expansion, a return to profitability and a successful IPO. Tom’s early career was spent in low cost airline revenue management firstly at EasyJet, which was then a start-up and then at Go-Fly, which grew to profitability and was successfully sold. Tom holds a first class degree in Mathematics for Management from Brighton University.