Ken Tate

Ken Tate joined Carnival Cruise Line as vice president of revenue management in 2012 and was promoted to his current position, executive vice president and chief commercial officer, in 2018. In this capacity, Ken is responsible for the largest group of Carnival shoreside employees and virtually all sources of driving commercial operations and revenue sources: revenue management ship deployments, marketing, Carnival.com, trade and direct sales channels, the pre-cruise customer support contact center and onboard revenue.

Prior to joining Carnival, Ken spent 10 years with the Boston Consulting Group, a leading management consulting firm where he worked on various pricing and revenue management initiatives. He also worked for three years at Enron, a major energy supplier, developing pricing models tailored to commodity trading.

Ken holds a B.A. in Economics from Rice University and earned his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.