{"id":91878,"date":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/dubai-dutyfree-taps-managing-directors-in-place-of-ceo\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"dubai-dutyfree-taps-managing-directors-in-place-of-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2024\/05\/10\/dubai-dutyfree-taps-managing-directors-in-place-of-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai DutyFree taps managing directors in place of CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Dubai DutyFree<\/strong> appointed its COO <strong>Ramesh Cidambi<\/strong> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ramesh-cidambi-73994\/?originalSubdomain=ae\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>) as <strong>managing <\/strong><strong>director<\/strong>, while the company\u2019s joint COO <strong>Salah Tahlak <\/strong>(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/salah-tahlak-369a0313\/?originalSubdomain=ae\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>) was appointed as <strong>deputy managing director<\/strong>, effective 1 June, according to a company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dubaidutyfree.com\/ddf_news\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. The duo replaces executive vice chairman and CEO of the company Colm McLoughlin (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colm-mcloughlin-99b99512\/?originalSubdomain=ae\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>), who is stepping down after 41 years at Dubai Duty Free, and 55 years in the travel retail industry. McLoughlin will still maintain an advisory role at the company, and serve as chairman of the Dubai Duty Free Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Ajman Bank<\/strong> has elected <strong>Sheikh Ammar Bin Humaid AlNuaimi<\/strong> as <strong>chairman<\/strong> of its board, and <strong>Sheikh Rashed Bin Humaid AlNuaimi<\/strong> as <strong>vice chairman<\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/5\/667.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">DFM disclosure (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company CEO Colm McLoughlin is stepping down after 55 years in the travel retail industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549],"tags":[650,87,7,33],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-91878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moves","tag-appointment","tag-dubai","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-moves","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"d6f4e18c-9ad5-4018-abf4-9eb0a8ccdf38","order":"9","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/5\/664.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Dubai DutyFree taps managing directors in place of CEO","related_issue":[91863],"teaser":"Company CEO Colm McLoughlin is stepping down after 55 years in the travel retail industry","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/5\/.842523ed-1eeb-4f37-b5be-68285221cba2.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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