Thomas Magnuson co-founded Magnuson Hotels as a home based business with his wife Melissa in 2003. Today, Magnuson Hotels is a top 10 global hotel chain representing 1000 hotels across 3 continents. Headquartered in London UK and Spokane WA, Magnuson Hotels has become the fastest growing hotel brand in history, adding more new hotels in the last 10 years than 8 of the top 10 chains combined.

Magnuson Hotels’ newly formed global alliance with Chinese operator Jin Jiang Hotels forms a consortium of over 6,000 hotels worldwide, equal to the size of a top 5 global hotel chain. Thomas Magnuson is a Graduate of Harvard Business School, Pepperdine University School of Business and Tufts University.

Thomas is panel expert of the C-SUITE World Panel panel.