CLIA Staff Leadership
CLIA's expert team unites maritime, travel, and policy leaders to support cruise lines, travel agents, and industry partners through advocacy, research, and strategic initiatives.
CLIA’s dynamic team brings together some of the brightest and most experienced minds in the maritime sector and travel industry, from maritime policy to government affairs, operations, membership and trade relations, marketing, communications, and research. These leaders and their teams work every day to create and add value for CLIA’s ocean-going member lines, as well as the broader cruise community of river cruise marketing affiliates, a highly trained and certified travel agent community, and cruise industry partners ranging from ports and destinations to ship builders, developers and other maritime business services.
CLIA Global
Charles “Bud” Darr
President & CEO, Cruise Lines International Association
Josh Good
Chief Financial Officer
Lawrence Kaye
General Counsel
Mike McGarry
Executive Director, North America & Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Donald Brown
Senior Vice President, Maritime Policy
Karyn Gruenberg
Senior Vice President, Membership & Enterprise Development
Anne Madison
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Communications
Jill Straniero
Senior Vice President, Digital Solutions & Global Information Technology
Sally Andrews
Vice President, Strategic Communications
Andrea Hoffman
Vice President, Strategic Communications
Brian Beall
Vice President, Government Affairs
Jose Caldera
Vice President, Global Human Resources
DJ Edwards
Vice President of Global Information Technology
Carla Guilbaud
Vice President, Membership Experience
Rear Admiral Frederick J. Kenney (U.S. Coast Guard, Ret.)
Special Adviser for Regulatory and Industry Affairs
Loan Nguyen
Global Controller
Barr Turner
Vice President, Maritime PolicyInternational Regions
Niels Wammen-Jensen
Executive Vice President, International RegionsAsia and Australasia
Joel Katz
Executive Director, Australasia
Jon Murrie
Communications Director, AustralasiaBrazil
Marco Ferraz
Executive DirectorEurope
Nikos Mertzanidis
Executive Director, CLIA, Europe
Maria Deligianni
Regional Director, Eastern Mediterranean
Hans Chen Braas
Regional Director, Nordics and Baltics
Francesco Galietti
National Director, Italy
Alfredo Serrano
National Director, SpainUnited Kingdom & Ireland
Andy Harmer
Executive Director, United Kingdom & IrelandNorth America
Mike McGarry
Executive Director, North America & Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Sally Andrews
Vice President, Strategic Communications
Caroline Johnson
Senior Vice President, Travel Trade Membership
Renée Limoge Reeve
Vice President, Government Affairs
Brian Beall
Vice President, Government Affairs
Donna Spalding
CLIA Senior Adviser, Canada