Rob Burgess founded Head for Points in 2011. After 17 years in the City, where he ended up as a Partner in a major private equity fund, he changed tack and decided to start a different sort of business travel website. Traditional business travel magazines and websites are insular, written for and read by people in the trade rather than ‘real’ travellers. Rob had been a keen contributor to the Flyertalk frequent flyer forum since 2004 and wanted to create a website for actual business travellers. It would have a strong focus on the thing that business travellers care most about: their frequent flyer miles and hotel loyalty points, and their elite status with these programmes. This site has shown strong year-on-year growth in page views every year, even during the pandemic, and will hit 29 million page views in 2023. 80% of these are from the UK. Rob has won or been shortlisted for multiple travel industry awards. He is a past winner of ‘Editor of the Year’ at the Business Travel Journalism Awards and has been nominated in at least one category every year since 2017. Rob has been shortlisted for ‘Editor of the Year’ and ‘Digital Journalist of the Year’ at the 2023 Business Travel Journalism Awards. Rob’s TV and radio appearances include ‘Talking Business’ for BBC World, ‘You and Yours’ for BBC Radio 4, ‘Rip Off Britain’ for BBC1 and various TV pieces for Sky News.