Lisa Lutoff-Perlo is an American businesswoman. She was the president and CEO of

Celebrity Cruises Celebrity Cruises is a cruise line headquartered in Miami, Florida, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group. Celebrity Cruises was founded in 1988 by the Greece-based Chandris Group, and merged with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in ...

, making her the first woman to lead one of the Royal Caribbean Group's cruise line brands.

Early life

Lutoff-Perlo was born and raised in Gloucester and graduated from Gloucester High School in 1975. After high school, she attended

Bentley University Bentley University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay, Boston, Back Bay neighborhood. Bentley has one undergraduate school which off ...

Career

Lutoff-Perlo began her career in the travel industry after seeing a help wanted ad for a travel advisor at Crimson Travel. While with Crimson Travel, she was in constant communication with

Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean International (RCI), formerly Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), is a cruise line founded in 1968 in Norway and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group since 1997. Based in Miami, Florida, it is the l ...

and learned that there was an open position as a Miami sales manager. In 1985, she was hired as a district sales manager for Royal Caribbean and moved to Miami. Lutoff-Perlo worked her way up the corporate ladder until she became associate vice president of national and corporate sales for both Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean International. In 2005, she was named vice president of onboard revenue for Celebrity Cruises. In 2012, Lutoff-Perlo was appointed senior vice president of operations for Royal Caribbean International. She stayed in this position for four years before being promoted to president and CEO of

. She became the first woman to lead one of the Royal Caribbean Group's cruise line brands. In her first year as president and CEO, Lutoff-Perlo hired Captain Kate McCue, the first American woman to captain a cruise ship. In 2017, she was honored as a South Florida “Women of Excellence” by the Cleveland Clinic Florida. The next year, she announced that Celebrity Cruises would become the first cruise line to conduct legal same-sex marriages at sea. This was also the year that

Celebrity Edge ''Celebrity Edge'' is an operated by Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group. After the new vessel was ordered with French shipbuilder STX France in December 2014, her keel was laid in June 2017 and she was floated out in Jan ...

began operation, a new Celebrity Cruises ship that began a new line of a fleet of ships. In 2019, she was the recipient of the

Cruise Lines International Association Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is a cruise line trade association. It merged with International Council of Cruise Lines (ICCL) in 2006, forming an expanded organization incorporating the existing functions of both organizations. The ...

Lifetime Achievement award.

References

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