Articles tagged “execs”

The Hawaii Visitors and Conventions Bureau will need to find a leader with a long experience in managing crisis management.

Air France-KLM continues to lead on female leadership in the airline industry. Rail executive Marjan Rintel will become KLM's first female CEO when she succeeds outgoing Pieter Elbers in July.

In almost every room he enters, Scott Kirby is the smartest person. Everyone knows it — including him. As CEO, though, he may need to show a little humility. Can he do it?

Well, this is a surprise. Expedia's two top executives resign unexpectedly. And Barry Diller moves in.

RBI's brands (Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes) each have been reporting mediocre comparable store sales in recent quarters. This new leadership structure may provide the boost the company needs.

The complete consolidation of Kayak and OpenTable's teams means OpenTable — Booking Holdings' only restaurant business — won't have a dedicated leader. It's disappointing to lose one of the few female CEOs in the restaurant tech space, especially the one who's arguably the most visible.

The jokes write themselves as executives shuffle between chains that are nearly indistinguishable from one another. But we'll state the obvious anyway: Fridays are better than Tuesdays.

Papa John's was already having sales troubles earlier this year, before the fallout with the company's founder. Now, however, the situation is exponentially worse: the company is expecting an unspecified number of store closures and potentially double-digit sales declines by the end of the year.

Airlines need more diversity at the senior leadership levels. But new JetBlue President and COO Joanna Geraghty would prefer to be known for more than her gender. That seems like a fair request, no? Let's see if she can fix the airline's on-time performance.

One of the new CEO's top priorities will be managing franchisee concerns around — what else — labor and staffing issues.