Tom Howard
Co-founder, Adioso. Product-designer, recruiter, hacker, writer, traveller.
I love finding solutions to complex problems in society.
I'm drawn to travel as it's one of the most popular and profound human activities, and involves decades-old technology and business challenges.
I love building teams and inspiring people to work together towards a grand vision.
Investors who want to help to build a consumer travel brand & culture to rival the most prominent & loved companies in the world.
I designed Adioso, the world's first open-ended/natural language travel search product.
I designed & built a new electronic payments system for taxis & limousines, which became the leading alternative taxi payments system in Australia and broke a decades-old monopoly.
I built a secure ticketing system for The Falls Festival - an internationally-renowned summer music & culture festival in Australia - well before the advent of developer-friendly credit card processing gateways. It enabled the promoters to bypass the ticket-selling duopoly, and saved ticket-buyers tens of thousands of dollars.