SAS promotes Gordon Clubb to regional directorship

SYDNEY, Australia  (10 May 2011)  – SAS has announced the appointment of Gordon Clubb as regional director of SAS South East Asia, a newly created group within the company's worldwide structure. He also remains managing director of SAS Australia and New Zealand – his position on joining SAS in 2000 – and will continue to be based in Sydney.

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Announcing the creation of the new region and Gordon Clubb's appointment, Mikael Hagstrom, executive vice president, EMEA and Asia Pacific, said, "A regionalised approach provides us with the ability to work across borders and structures to better meet our customers' needs for highly specialised skills and experience".

The impressive results of the management, sales, support, human resources and cultural change initiatives introduced and embedded by Gordon Clubb in his 10 years running SAS' Australia and New Zealand operations have lifted the organisation to a significantly higher level. These include achieving:

• Consistently strong profit and revenue growth
  
• A record level of customer retention at 97 per cent
  
• Winning the SAS Outstanding Country Award in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2010
  
• A 95 per cent employee satisfaction rating in a 2010 independent survey
  
• Best Companies to Work for in Australia recognition in 2009 and 2010.
  

Before joining SAS in 2000 Gordon Clubb led organisational change programs at Xerox Corporation – where he was a member of that company's Global Business Futures Network – and at Vodafone, as part of its the Global Growth Strategy Team.

He was a founding member and director of the Australian Sales Institute and is a member of the National Institute of Accountants, Australian Institute of Marketing and Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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