MIAMI, Jan. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean
Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL) announced today that Laura B. Miller has been named senior vice
president and chief human resources officer. Miller joins
Royal Caribbean with more than 25 years of experience implementing
human resources strategies for leading companies including ADT
Corporation, Coca-Cola and Raytheon Company. Miller will
report directly to Richard D. Fain,
chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
"At Royal Caribbean, we know it takes all 67,000 of our
employees working together to surprise and delight almost 6 million
guests each year," said Fain. "Laura understands the
importance of teamwork, and her background and skills are ideally
suited for the role of leading and managing our HR organization as
we strive to identify, hire, develop, motivate and retain the best
employees, both shipboard and shoreside, responsible for providing
our guests with extraordinary vacations."
Miller most recently served as SVP and chief human resources
officer for ADT Corporation, where she was responsible for leading
all human resource functions for the $3.6B company with approximately 17,000 employees
in over 200 locations. Prior to that, Miller was the chief human
resources officer for Coca-Cola Refreshments, a $20B subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company, where
she lead a team of over 650 HR professionals that were responsible
for supporting 70,000 employees in over 600 locations.
Miller graduated from Cornell
University with a B.S. in Industry and Labor Relations.
As of December 31, 2017, Royal
Caribbean's global brands employed over 67,000 employees, including
61,000 shipboard employees as well as 6,000 full-time and 100
part-time employees in our shoreside operations.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL) is a global cruise
vacation company that owns and operates three global brands: Royal
Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Azamara Club
Cruises. We are a 50 percent joint venture owner of the
German brand TUI Cruises, a 49 percent shareholder in the Spanish
brand Pullmantur and a minority shareholder in the Chinese brand
SkySea Cruises. Together, these brands operate a combined total of
49 ships with an additional twelve on order. They operate
diverse itineraries around the world that call on approximately 535
destinations on all seven continents. Additional information
can be found www.rclcorporate.com.
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SOURCE Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.