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 and CEO
Josh Good
Chief Financial Officer
Lawrence Kaye
General Counsel
Mike McGarry
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Donald Brown
Senior Vice President, Maritime Policy
Karyn Gruenberg
Senior Vice President, Membership and Managing Director of Enterprise Development
Anne Madison
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Communications
Jill Straniero
Senior Vice President, Digital Solutions & Managing Director of Global Technology
Jethro Beck
Vice President, Maritime Policy
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 Envoy
Loan Nguyen
Global Controller
Kevin Swanson
Vice President, Government Affairs
Barr Turner
Vice President, Maritime PolicyAsia and Australasia
Joel Katz
Managing Director, Australasia
Jon Murrie
Communications Director, AustralasiaBrazil
Marco Ferraz
Executive PresidentEurope
Samuel Maubanc
Director General, Europe
Julie Green
Deputy Director General, Europe
Nikos Mertzanidis
Vice President, Ports & Destinations and Taxation
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
Managing Director, United Kingdom & IrelandNorth America
Mike McGarry
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Sally Andrews
Vice President, Strategic Communications & Public Affairs, North America
Caroline Johnson
Senior Vice President, Travel Trade Membership
Renée Limoge Reeve
Vice President of Government & Community Relations, Alaska
Donna Spalding
CLIA Senior Adviser, Canada
Kevin Swanson
Vice President, Government Affairs