She will be responsible for Air France and KLM commercial passenger sales and flight operations throughout the South East Asia & Oceania region (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand). She is based in Singapore at the South East Asia & Oceania regional office.

Prior to this appointment, Mrs. Kroese was Commercial Director United Kingdom and Ireland Air France KLM. She joined KLM in 2002 and held several positions in the Air France KLM group within Sales, Pricing Revenue Management and other Commercial roles while being based in the Netherlands, France, Canada and the United Kingdom.

In 2002, she graduated from the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom and the Amsterdam School of Business in the Netherlands. Under the ‘Erasmus program’ these business schools ran a double degree exchange program.