Simon Champion named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at easyHotel
easyHotel, the budget hotel brand, headed by entrepreneur Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has appointed a new Chief Executive to take charge of a major expansion programme aimed at putting value-for-money hotels into every major European city and beyond. Simon Champion joins the easyHotel team from Deutsche Bank where he was Managing Director responsible for equity research on consumer companies. Simon qualified as an accountant with KPMG, and for the past fourteen years has analysed the hotel industry for Deutsche Bank. easyHotel currently has 19 hotels spread from Edinburgh to Johannesburg, and from London Heathrow to Dubai, with more due to open shortly.
