ESTERO,
Fla., July 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hertz Global
Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTZ) ("Hertz" or the "Company"), a leading
global rental car company, today announced key appointments that
will strengthen its leadership team and sharpen the Company's focus
on driving enhanced profitability through operational excellence,
superior customer service, strategic fleet management, cost
control, and premium revenue.
Sandeep Dube will join Hertz as
Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer on July 22, 2024, and Katherine Lee Martin, who currently serves as
Hertz's Interim General Counsel, will be appointed to Executive
Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, effective
immediately.
In addition, the following leaders are joining Hertz this month:
Henry Kuykendall as Executive Vice
President, North America Operations; Greg
May as Executive Vice President, Fleet Management; and
Mike Moore as Executive Vice
President, Technical Operations. Each executive will report to
Hertz Chief Executive Officer Gil
West.
"The leaders announced today, along with our new CFO
Scott Haralson, add capacity and
capabilities that complement our existing leadership team's deep
institutional knowledge of the rental car industry," said Hertz
Chief Executive Officer Gil West.
"With this best-in-class leadership team, we are now set to execute
our strategy to deliver sustainable growth and create value by
excelling at the basics – elevating our operational performance
across every facet of our business with continued process
improvement, technological and product innovation, and mobilizing
our best and most valued asset – our 27,000 employees globally – to
deliver an unmatched customer experience."
West added, "Our enhanced executive team, and the added
resilience and flexibility afforded by the capital we recently
raised, enable us to pursue our fleet rotation plan on an
accelerated timeline, deliver our cost and revenue improvement
initiatives, and allow Hertz to reach its full potential. We are at
an exciting inflection point in our path to generate greater value
for our customers, employees, and shareholders."
Sandeep Dube, Executive Vice
President, Chief Commercial Officer, will lead global
commercial strategy and revenue generation for Hertz through an
integrated customer-centric approach, overseeing revenue management
and pricing, corporate sales and strategic partnerships, customer
experience, product development, loyalty programs, marketing, and
franchise. Dube has over 25 years of experience leading
transformational growth for businesses. He most recently served as
Chief Operating Officer at Intuit Mailchimp. Before that, he was
Chief Commercial Officer at Activision Blizzard, and he held senior
leadership roles at Delta Air Lines, including Senior Vice
President, Revenue Management, leading revenue, product strategy,
and commercial delivery, Senior Vice President, Digital, Loyalty,
Lounges, and Consumer Insights, and Chief Executive Officer of
Delta Vacations.
Katherine Lee Martin,
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate
Secretary, will continue to oversee Hertz's global legal
affairs, government affairs, as well as sustainability and social
impact teams. Martin has served as the Company's Interim General
Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary since April 2024, after joining Hertz in May 2023 as Vice President, Chief Counsel. Prior
to joining Hertz, she held senior leadership positions at X Corp.
and Twitter, where she oversaw the company's global portfolio of
highly complex litigation, regulatory, and competition matters.
Before joining Twitter, Martin spent more than a decade as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Henry Kuykendall, Executive
Vice President, North America Operations, will oversee airport
and off-airport car rental operations across North America. Kuykendall previously spent 33
years at Delta Air Lines, where he held several key leadership
roles focused on operations, customer service and sales, and the
development of best-in-class processes. He most recently served as
Senior Vice President, Airport Operations, East, overseeing all
airport operations at Boston Logan International Airport, Detroit
Metropolitan Airport, LaGuardia Airport, and John F. Kennedy
International Airport. In that role, Kuykendall also oversaw
Delta's operations at 41 stations in the East and at 137 smaller
airport locations across the U.S., which comprised over 20,000
employees and contractors.
Greg May, Executive Vice
President, Fleet Management, will lead all aspects
of Hertz's fleet management, including fleet procurement and
strategy, analytics, and vehicle remarketing. May has over 35 years
of experience managing commercial aviation fleets and supply chains
and has held leadership positions at Delta Air Lines, Northwest
Airlines, and United Airlines, among other companies. He also
founded aircraft leasing company Q Aviation and launched Valkyrie
BTO Aviation, a commercial aircraft investment company for
Blackstone where he most recently served as President and Chief
Executive Officer.
Mike Moore, Executive Vice
President, Technical Operations, will lead all aspects of
Hertz's fleet maintenance. Due to his over 25 years of experience
managing fleet operations and maintenance, Moore has expertise in
overseeing operations and delivering process improvements that
reduce costs and drive enhanced financial performance. He has held
leadership positions at Delta Air Lines, where he spent a decade in
operations-focused roles of increasing responsibility, and at
Northwest Airlines, among others. He most recently served as
Executive Vice President, Spaceline Technical Operations at Virgin
Galactic.
ABOUT HERTZ
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., operates the Hertz, Dollar, and
Thrifty vehicle rental brands throughout North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin
America, Africa, the
Middle East, Asia, Australia, and New
Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest
worldwide vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of
the most recognized globally. Additionally, The Hertz Corporation
owns and operates the Firefly vehicle rental brand and Hertz 24/7
car sharing business in international markets and sells vehicles
through Hertz Car Sales. For more information about The Hertz
Corporation, visit www.hertz.com.
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