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New senior roles at Denver for Bhavesh Patel (left) and Ken Greene | |
USA. Bhavesh Patel, who was previously Director of Concessions at Tampa International, has been named as Chief Revenue Officer – Executive Vice President in charge of the Commercial, Concessions and Real Estate business unit at Denver Airport. He reports to CEO Kim Day.
Commercial and concessions departments are now two entities, Denver Airport clarified to The Moodie Report, with John Ackerman overseeing commercial and Neil Maxfield the concessions unit.
This is one of two new senior appointments at Denver: the other is that of Ken Greene as Chief Operating Officer who will lead the business unit that includes Airport Infrastructure Management, Technologies, Airport Operations, the Hotel and Transit Center and Special Projects. Greene has worked for the airport since 2009.
Patel has more than 19 years of airport, airline, public and private sector aviation experience. At Tampa, he led the team responsible for implementing the Airport Concessions Redevelopment Program, which is projected to grow airport concessions revenue by nearly +50% in five years. He also developed and implemented the airport’s largest outreach programme, designed to connect contractors, banks, prime operators, and local, minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
Patel implemented a concession revenue enhancement programme working with the existing tenants with no term extensions or rent considerations to re-concept, remodel, and new store openings resulting in US$12.5 million increase in incremental gross sales. He was also responsible for the development and execution of the business plan for the Consolidated Rental Car Center, the first for Tampa, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
Kim Day said: “Over the last five years Ken Greene has become an invaluable member of the leadership team at Denver International Airport and helped implement many of our strategic objectives and innovative programs. I’m also pleased to welcome Bhavesh Patel to the executive team, where he will oversee our thriving concessions and commercial programmes as well as our efforts to develop Colorado’s own aerotropolis and help us take these programmes to the next level.”
Greene will assume his new role beginning 1 January 2015 and Patel will begin work on 20 January.
