Marius van der Ham: AirFrance-KLM Kenya boss privilege and small ego issue

The love affair between the dark suit and the crisp white shirt has been written ad nauseam but it hasn’t been written by me. I’m different. It’s not news but because I said it, it’s fresh.

At least that’s what I think when Marius van der Ham, the AirFrance-KLM General Manager for East and Southern Africa, Nigeria and Ghana walks in, six-feet-something, soft-spoken, in a PR move that shows why the suit took the place of the hat once occupied as the badge separating the ambitious executive from lower echelon workers. Sometimes the suit wears the man, sometimes the man wears the suit.