{"id":30721,"date":"2025-01-31T00:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:14:36","slug":"mac-selects-isabella-rhawie-as-vp-commercial-revenue-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/airports\/mac-selects-isabella-rhawie-as-vp-commercial-revenue-officer\/%20","title":{"rendered":"MAC Selects Isabella Rhawie as VP, Commercial Revenue Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has promoted Isabella Rhawie to the senior executive team as vice president, commercial revenue officer following a national search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhawie had been the MAC\u2019s interim vice president of revenue development since July 2024. She previously served as the director of concessions and business development.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabella-Rhawie-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30722\" style=\"width:434px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabella-Rhawie-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabella-Rhawie-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabella-Rhawie.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>MAC Vice President, Commercial Revenue Officer Isabella Rhawie. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Airports Commission.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsabella\u2019s entrepreneurial spirit has sparked dynamic growth in our concessions portfolio, and her leadership has boosted revenue across multiple business units,\u201d said MAC CEO Brian Ryks. \u201cShe brings a strategic mindset to the role along with strong collaborative skills that earn her praise from airport tenants, stakeholders and industry peers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Rhawie\u2019s new position, she will manage the revenue and business development department responsible for negotiating, implementing and managing aeronautical and non-aeronautical properties, real estate, concessions programs, hotel lease management, auto rentals, airline agreements and strategic partnerships. Her new position also plays an important leadership role in other revenue-generating areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsabella has played a key role in redeveloping MSP\u2019s concessions program, which now generates more than $275 million in annual gross revenue,\u201d said MAC CFO Tim Simon. \u201cHer experience also includes managing the MSP Airport Conference Center and leveraging revenue and business development growth through the MAC\u2019s new Strategic Partnership Program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhawie joined the MAC in 2014 as a manager in concessions and business development. Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) honored MSP with the best large airport retail program in 2018 and the Richard A. Griesbach Award of Excellence in airport concessions in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining the MAC, Rhawie developed her concessions and customer-focused business career at the Mall of America as a tourism and leasing coordinator. She holds a business administration degree from Augsburg University in Minneapolis. Rhawie holds a certification in the ACI-NA U.S. Airport Professional (USAP) program. In 2020, Isabella was selected as a &#8220;Top 40 Under 40&#8221; leader by Airport Business magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has promoted Isabella Rhawie to the senior executive team as vice president, commercial revenue officer following a national search. Rhawie had been the MAC\u2019s interim vice president of revenue development since July 2024. She previously served as the director of concessions and business development. \u201cIsabella\u2019s entrepreneurial spirit has sparked dynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airports","category-minnesota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30726,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions\/30726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}