Oman Air appointment

Oman Air has appointed Philippe Georgiou as Chief Officer - Corporate Affairs. The departments that he will be officiating are marketing, corporate communications and media, customer relations, emergency response, government relations and legal affairs. He will also be the official spokesperson for the airline.

Philippe has lived in the Middle East most of his life and has 30 years of experience that spans technical, operational, marketing, business development, public relations and general management.

He joined Cadbury Schweppes in 1977 and, heading their operations unit, helped their expansion plans into the Near East and the Gulf.

At Coca-Cola from 1990, Philippe led the business unit that implemented the re-entry of the company in the Middle East and North Africa after an absence of 25 years.

Also heading their PR unit for the Middle East region, Philippe developed all the company’s issues and crisis programs, consumer response systems, employee communications, government relations management as well as its corporate social responsibility drive.

As a spokesperson for Coca-Cola, he also was the main interface with the local and international media.