CRUISE LINE NAMES PRESIDENT.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA Valencia, region, Spain Valencia (välān`thēä), autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. - Princess Cruises Princess Cruises is an American cruise line, based out of Santa Clarita, California, that operates cruise ships also shares the same building with Cunard Line headquarters. It is one of the many cruise lines operated by the Carnival Corporation. , the Valencia-based cruise company, has named Phil PHIL Philosophy Phil Philippine PHIL Philippians PHIL Philadelphia, PA, USA PHIL Public Health Image Library (US CDC) Kleweno president of its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. division. Kleweno joins Princess Cruises from Bain & Co., a global business consultancy, where he was a senior partner. Kleweno has worked with Princess Cruises over the past five years and has been closely involved in both the strategic and operational development of the division during that time. While at Bain, Kleweno also focused on customer-oriented businesses within a number of different sectors including travel and leisure, retail, and media and entertainment. He was a member of the founding management team of Bain's Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office and played a key role in developing the firm's e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. practice. A graduate of Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. , Kleweno also held finance positions at Honeywell Information Systems and was vice president and general manager of The Zitter Group, a health care information company, where he was responsible for sales, marketing and product development. As president of Princess Cruises, Kleweno will report to Peter Ratcliffe, chief executive officer of P&O Princess Cruises PLC. Prior to Kleweno's appointment, Ratcliffe combined his roles as both CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the group and president of Princess. With Kleweno taking day-to-day responsibility for Princess, Ratcliffe will now focus on the overall development of the group's business around the world. ``I am pleased to welcome Phil as president of Princess,'' Ratcliffe said. ``His broad business perspective and innovative thinking, together with his leadership skills and wide experience in the travel and leisure industry, will add considerably to the strength of the management team not only of Princess, but of the group as a whole. Since Phil has worked very closely with us over the last several years, he is in an excellent position to maximize the potential of the Princess organization as we continue to grow our business.'' Kleweno said it would be a challenge to work with a company with such worldwide growth potential. ``Princess is well-positioned to exploit that growth with its strong brand, innovative product, outstanding operational reputation and excellent relationship with the travel agent community,'' Kleweno said. ``I look forward to continuing to work with the people at Princess, both at sea and ashore, who have been responsible for our ongoing success.'' |
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