Nikki Upshaw is a top-performing sales and marketing executive with extensive strategic and global experience. She has held several senior-level positions in ultra-luxury cruise companies such as Royal Viking Line, Cunard Line, and The Yachts of Seabourn. Nikki has successfully launched new marketing strategies and introduced brand innovations, leveraging her vast and deep business relationships with luxury brands and travel purveyors that consistently deliver top sales results. She was instrumental in pioneering the residential ship experience, introducing and implementing the global sales and marketing strategy, and profitably selling out all private residences for The World, the largest privately owned residential yacht on earth. Nikki is an entrepreneurial, dynamic, and inspiring leader and manager with a BBA in Marketing from the University of Miami Herbert Business School. Currently, she is the Senior Vice President Sales and Trade Marketing (The Americas) at Oceania Cruises.