{"id":607660,"date":"2026-09-06T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/607660\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:46:17","slug":"dewitte-returns-to-hurtigruten-as-vp-sales-marketing-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/607660\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWitte returns to Hurtigruten as VP Sales &#038; Marketing, Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurtigruten has enlisted Matt DeWitte as its new Vice President, Sales and Marketing for the Americas, commencing in the role on 31 August 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeWitte is no stranger to Hurtigruten, with this position marking his return to the brand where he served as Head of Marketing, Americas from August 2022 until the brand split with HX Expeditions in January 2025. At that time, DeWitte was hired as Head of Marketing for the Americas, Australia and New Zealand for HX.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Matt-DeWitte-Hurtigruten.-Photo-by-Robert-Stanzione-vert-720x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172582 size-full\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are so pleased to welcome Matt DeWitte back to Hurtigruten,\u201d said Iain Powell, Chief Commercial Officer, Hurtigruten. \u201cMatt is an experienced leader who has consistently demonstrated strong delivery throughout his career. He brings solid and extensive marketing knowledge, combined with deep, firsthand knowledge of both our trade and B2C business in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe is already well known to many of our key partners and colleagues, and we are confident he will build on the strong work already underway. North America is a crucial market for our growth plans, and this year we have seen record growth,\u201d Powell added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeWitte (pictured left) said he was \u201cincredibly honoured to return to Hurtigruten\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat makes this even more special to me is to be able to reunite with my talented former colleagues who have been driving the unprecedented growth here in North America, as well as colleagues back in Europe. Together, I\u2019m looking forward to creating additional value for the brand and delivering exceptional experiences for our guests,\u201d DeWitte added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurtigruten has enlisted Matt DeWitte as its new Vice President, Sales and Marketing for the Americas, commencing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,275076,85,46,275077],"class_list":["post-607660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-hurtigruten","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-matt-dewitte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}