Ann Sherry explains why the company has promoted its Chief Financial Officer to a new strategic development role. CARNIVAL Australia’s chief financial officer Neil Linwood has been appointed to the newly created position of senior vice president strategic development – a role that will see him take the lead on...
Ann Sherry explains why the
company has promoted its
Chief Financial Officer to a new
strategic development role.
CARNIVAL Australia’s chief financial officer
Neil Linwood has been appointed to the newly
created position of senior vice president
strategic development – a role that will see
him take the lead on responsibilities previously
shared with CEO Ann Sherry.
Speaking to Cruise Weekly, Sherry said that
Linwood, who has been with the company for
more than a decade, would focus on delivering
further growth.
“Neil will be working on ports issues and
everything happening in Sydney, as well as
options in Brisbane, the Garden Island review,
and in the long-term, looking at investments
that we need to make in the Pacific to make
further growth sustainable,” she said.
“At the moment we do most of this together,
and Neil has been doing it in addition to his
CFO functions, so now he will carry more of it.”
Rather than “doing the job of two people, we
need someone to have a concerted focus,”
Sherry said.
When asked if this would lighten her
workload, Sherry laughed and said: “Probably
not. I’d like to put my feet up and go on a
couple of cruises.”
Taking up Linwood’s vacated CFO role will be
Wayne Stokes, Carnival Australia’s “extremely
capable” finance director, Sherry said.
