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RCL taps new chief human resources officer

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Laura Miller will report directly to chairman and CEO Richard Fain
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. hired a veteran of companies including ADT Corp., Coca-Cola and Raytheon as SVP and chief human resources officer. Laura Miller succeeds Paul Parker, who left in October.

Miller brings more than 25 years of experience implementing human resources strategies for leading companies. For the past four years she has been SVP and chief human resources officer at ADT Corp., a provider of electronic security services based in Boca Raton, Florida, where she was responsible for leading all HR functions for the $3.6bn company with approximately 17,000 employees in more than 200 locations.

Prior to that, Miller was the chief human resources officer for Coca-Cola Refreshments, a $20bn subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Co., where she led a team of more than 650 HR professionals responsible for supporting 70,000 employees in over 600 locations.

At RCL Miller will report directly to Richard Fain, chairman and CEO.

'At Royal Caribbean, we know it takes all 67,000 of our employees working together to surprise and delight almost 6 million guests each year,' Fain said. 'Laura understands the importance of teamwork, and her background and skills are ideally suited for the role of leading and managing our HR organization as we strive to identify, hire, develop, motivate and retain the best employees, both shipboard and shoreside, responsible for providing our guests with extraordinary vacations.'

RCL has 61,000 shipboard employees and 6,000 full-time and 100 part-time employees in shoreside operations.