Philadelphia International (PHL) has appointed Chellie Cameron to its newly created chief operating officer position. She will report to CEO Mark Gale.
Cameron will oversee day-to-day operations, including those dealing with facilities and maintenance, information technology, asset management and planning, engineering, security, finance and budget, property and concession management, human resources, contracts, procurement and the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program.
Cameron has served at PHL since 2011 as deputy director of aviation, finance and administration. During that time, she has led several key financial and strategic initiatives, airport officials say. One of those was the negotiation of a two-year airport-airline use and lease agreement extension that included approval for $735 million in new capital projects.
She also led the development of a new enterprise asset management system and expanded several community outreach campaigns aimed at increasing participation from disadvantaged-, minority- and women-owned businesses at PHL.
“Over the last three years, she has proven herself as a strong leader and consummate aviation professional,” Gale says. “With the airline industry investing billions of dollars in airport improvements across the country, increasing our capacity to collaborate with our airline partners on both short-medium and long-term goals is smart for PHL and should yield positive results.”
