James Prescott is Managing Director of Harding, the Davidson Kempner-owned, UK-headquartered cruise retail concessionaire and a highly experienced travel retail executive. He joined Harding from Bahrain where he had played a key role since 2008 as Aer Rianta International-Middle East General Manager Operations. Before then he was Whyte & Mackay Global Travel Retail Director, joining from World Duty Free where as Head of Buying.