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 Carnival
Corporation today announced that Marie McKenzie has been named vice president of
global destinations services and sourcing, a new role and function for the
company.
As part of this new function, McKenzie will lead a team of brand experts who
will assume responsibility for geographical regions on behalf of all nine
brands, while also maintaining their reporting lines into the leadership
structure of their respective brand.
Together, they will coordinate and manage processes and relationships with tour
operators and port services officials around the globe to deliver the best
possible tour excursion and port experiences for the nearly 11 million guests
who sail every year on the company's 100 ships visiting hundreds of ports across
the globe.
"We are excited to have Marie take on this new role, and with her proven track
record in her past 19 years at Carnival, we know she will lead this team to
great success," said Alan Buckelew, chief operations officer for Carnival
Corporation.
"Having had global responsibilities in her previous role and partnering with the
global strategy team, we know she will bring to this new role extensive
knowledge of our operating companies and a deep understanding of our overall
vision to work together across our nine brands to consistently exceed guest
expectations."
In addition, a primary focus for McKenzie will be to leverage Carnival
Corporation's collective scale and expertise to continue creating unique and
exciting shore excursions and port experiences as part of the company's goal to
consistently exceed guest expectations.
Buckelew added: "We strive to ensure our guests enjoy shore excursions and ports
as part of our overall goal to create a great vacation experience. Our business
has become increasingly global, with over 20,000 shore excursions a year offered
at 725 ports around the world. With this move, we are taking steps to ensure we
continue to have deep local expertise working with tour operator partners large
and small who offer a wide range of options for our guests."
McKenzie will report to Josh Leibowitz, chief strategy officer for Carnival
Corporation.
"Our brands already work with local tour operators and port facility officials
to make sure we provide a positive experience and great portfolio of popular
shore excursions that consistently earn high satisfaction marks from our
guests," said Leibowitz. "With our new process our tour operators and port
facility partners will now have an opportunity to participate in offering
services for all nine of our brands. Most importantly, by leveraging the
collective expertise of our brands, tour operators and port facility partners,
we can continue to offer our guests popular and unique shore excursions and port
experiences. And in some cases, we will use our collective creativity to develop
exciting new excursions, or new twists to already popular excursions."
McKenzie previously served as vice president of global financial planning and
analysis, where she played an integral part in interpreting and engaging all
nine brands to prepare the company's executive team for the quarterly earnings
guidance and position the overall strategy and financial direction of the
company. She also led the process of capturing, consolidating and analyzing data
from the nine brands as well as the corporation's annual planning process that
was key to the execution of the company's overall long-term strategy.
McKenzie, who started her career with Carnival Corporation in 1996, has held a
number of roles of increasing responsibility. This included her time with the
Carnival Cruise Line brand where she served in various leadership roles,
including vice president of fleet accounting where she led a team of nearly 200
people working closely with the shipboard operations team in supporting
execution of the overall onboard guest experience.
McKenzie started her career with Arthur Andersen LLP in Washington, D.C., in
1992. Originally from Jamaica, West Indies, she is a graduate of Howard
University where she earned her bachelor's degree in accounting. She also
attended Florida International University where she earned a master's degree in
international business.
McKenzie serves on the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of
Southern Florida and Honey Shine Inc. |
