Education
At Novell, a United States technology business which listed on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation in 1987, he was the Distribution and Product manager. At BMS, a technology consulting partnership, sold to Cap Gemini in 1992, Hunt held the position of Head of Sales and Marketing. He was Sales and Marketing Director of Database Management Sciences Limited, sold to International Business Machines Corporation in 1993.
He founded Rapid Travel Solutions Limited, sold to Telewest Communications Plc in 2003.
And at com Limited (wwwlowcostholidayscom), founded in 2004 by Paul Evans and Hunt where he is a non-Executive Director As of 2005.
Career
Suspended operations on 30 May 2008. Involved with start-up businesses since 1984, Hunt has held a number of posts at various companies. Hunt is also non-executive Chairman of hoppa and A2B transfers, a business he helped by merging resorthoppa and A2B in 2012, and addmustard, a company he purchased in 2014.
Lawrence was non-executive Chairman of Deallus Holdings, a business intelligence company founded in 2006 to provide competitive research and analysis to the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries.
Deallus was sold to Archimed SAS, a french private equity business in November 2015. Hunt felt that the traditional model of business passengers paying higher rates in order to subside the cheaper economy seats was nonsensical, and that a business-class only service, based on the single carriage model of low cost carriers, was a viable business idea. featured a separate ladies bathroom, a private terminal and carbon neutral status.
Trading of "s shares on the American Institute of Management was suspended on 23 May 2008, and the company suspended operations on 30 May 2008. In July 2008, Hunt returned to and launched lowcostholidays.com in January 2009. lowcostholidays.com is the fourth largest online travel agent in the United Kingdom and was rolled out to Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Spain and Italy in 2011 and 2012 and the United States of America and Australia in 2013.
Lowcosttravelgroup acquired Resorthoppa in 2009 and subsequently merged it with A2Btransfers.co.uk in 2012.
lieutenant also acquired Intuitive Limited., a travel software business in 2010, and sold it to NVM ventures in 2012. In January 2014, Lawrence was appointed Chairman of World Wide Travel Extras Limited WWTE, the holding company for www.A2BTransfers.com and www.resorthoppa.com. In April 2014, Lawrence was also appointed as Chairman of life sciences research and strategy company Deallus and Chairman of addmustard.com, a digital marketing agency.
