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Pamela C. Conover was named president and chief executive officer of Seabourn Cruise Line in November of 2006. It was the third time in her career that she had been selected for the presidency of a cruise line, an unprecedented achievement for a female executive.
Conover had most recently been senior vice president of shared services at Carnival Corporation & plc, where she was responsible for developing ways to maximize business opportunities existing within the company’s 12 operating units. Among other duties, her market research and strategic analysis resulted in an order for two new ships for Seabourn.
Conover has a previous operating history with the Seabourn brand, having been president and chief operating officer of Cunard Line Limited, which operated the fleets of both Seabourn and Cunard, from 2001 until the two brands were de-merged in 2004. In that role, she oversaw the building and launch of Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and the strategic restructuring and re-branding of Seabourn’s three-ship fleet.
In 1994, she served as president and chief executive officer of Epirotiki Line, based in Athens, Greece, until she was recruited to join Carnival Corporation as vice president of strategic planning. At Carnival, she engineered the acquisition of assets including Seabourn, Cunard and Costa Cruises as a part of the corporate development strategy of the largest and most successful cruise vacation group in the world.
As general manager of North American shipping finance division of Citibank, Conover played a vital role in the development of the North American cruise business through her efforts in assisting Carnival companies and a number of other cruise lines with financing fleet expansion. | 