MAJOR COUNTRY LEADERS OF COCA-COLA COMPANY
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James Quincey
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
James Quincey is Chairman and CEO of
The Coca-Cola Company. Quincey, who
first joined the company in 1996, has held a
number of leadership roles around the
world. He became CEO in 2017 and
Chairman of the Board in 2019.
Brian Smith
President and Chief Operating Officer
Brian Smith is president and chief operating
officer of The Coca-Cola Company. In this
role, he is responsible for leading the
company’s global field operations, with a
focus on in-market executional leadership,
talent development and deployment.
John Murphy
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
John Murphy is executive vice president
and chief financial officer of The Coca-
Cola Company. In this role, he is
responsible for leading the company’s
representing the company with multiple
stakeholders, including investors, lenders
and rating agencies. He oversees Mergers
& Acquisitions, Investor Relations, Global
Strategy, Tax, Treasury, Audit, Accounting
and Controls, Reporting and Analysis, Real
Estate and Risk Management.
Manuel Arroyo
Chief Marketing Officer and Group
President, Asia Pacific
Manuel “Manolo” Arroyo is chief marketing
officer and president of the Asia Pacific
group of The Coca-Cola Company. He is
responsible for integrated global marketing,
which includes teams for Creative,
Category, Marketing Operations, Design
and Knowledge & Insights.
Lisa Chang
Senior Vice President and Chief People
Officer
Lisa Chang is senior vice president and
chief people officer for Coca-Cola,
overseeing the company’s global human
resources operations. Chang joined Coca-
Cola in 2019.

Gilles Leclerc
Vice President and President, The
McDonald’s Division
Gilles Leclerc is president of The
McDonald's Division (TMD) of The Coca-
Cola Company. He leads a global
organization that is responsible for building
the strategic alliance with McDonald's in
over 35,000 restaurants in more than 100
countries.
Robert Long
Senior Vice President and Chief
Innovation Officer
Robert Long is the Senior Vice President
and Chief Innovation Officer of The Coca-
Cola Company. In this role, he leads work to
accelerate the growth of the company’s
consumer-centric brand portfolio with
hundreds of new products and continued
innovation in beverages, packaging,
ingredients and other areas of the business
around the world.
Beatriz Perez
Senior Vice President and Chief
Communications, Public Affairs,
Sustainability and Marketing Assets
Officer
Beatriz “Bea” Perez is the SVP and Chief
Communications, Public Affairs,
Sustainability and Marketing Assets Officer
for The Coca-Cola Company. Bea leads an
integrated team across public affairs and
communications, sustainability and
marketing assets to support the company’s
new growth model and path to become a
total beverage company.
Nancy Quan
Senior Vice President and Chief
Technical Officer
Nancy Quan is senior vice president and
chief technical officer for The Coca-Cola
Company. Her areas of responsibility
include global leadership of the Technical
and Supply Chain community; Strategic
Ingredient Procurement; Flavor Supply and
Manufacturing; Commercial Products
Supply; Strategic Supply Chain; Product
Integrity, including Quality, Safety and
Environment; Scientific and Regulatory
Affairs; Technical Data Intelligence; and
Technical Knowledge and Skills.
Barry Simpson
Senior Vice President and Chief
Information and Integrated Services
Officer
Barry Simpson is senior vice president and
chief information and integrated services
officer for The Coca-Cola Company. In this
role, Simpson oversees the company’s
global information technology strategy,
services and operations, along with
procurement, facilities, and shared services.
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Claudia Lorenzo
President, Association of Southeast Asian
Nations
Claudia Lorenzo is president of the ASEAN
business unit of The Coca-Cola Company.
Lorenzo, who joined the company in 1994,
was appointed to this role in 2019. The
ASEAN business unit is based in Singapore
and has 11 countries, including the
Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam
and Malaysia.
Curtis Ferguson
President, Greater China and Korea
Curt was previously President of the
company’s Middle East and North Africa
Business Unit., Curt he held a variety of
management and bottler positions in
subsidiaries of The Coca-Cola Company in
Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia,
Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
In July 2000, he became Managing Director
of The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of
Egypt.
T. Krishnakumar
President, India and Southwest Asia
T. Krishnakumar (“KK”) is President of
The Coca-Cola Company’s India and
Southwest Asia business unit where he has
responsibility for all company operations in
India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal
and Sri Lanka. Previously, KK was the Chief
Executive Officer of Hindustan Coca-
Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. (HCCB), the
company-owned bottler in India. He is also
responsible for The Coca-Cola Company's
Bottling Investment Group's operations in
Bangladesh.
Jorge Garduño
President, Japan
Jorge Garduño is President of the Japan
Business Unit of The Coca-Cola Company.
He took this position on July 1, 2017.
Garduño is a native of Mexico. He is a
graduate of the Tec de Monterrey Mexico
and holds an MBA from the University of
Texas at Austin.
Vamsi Mohan Thati
President, South Pacific
Vamsi Mohan is President of Coca-Cola South
Pacific, his experience within the Coca-Cola
system, with a strong track record of delivering
results and building capabilities around
customer management, market execution,
digital technologies and people development.
Most recently, Vamsi served as the Region
Director of our company-owned bottling
businesses in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh
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company. He has worked in Turkey,

Southern Eurasia, Middle East and North
Africa. He also served in the China business
unit before being appointed general
manager of Coca-Cola Middle East in 2016.
Nikolaos Koumettis

Group President, Europe, Middle East and

Africa

Nikos Koumettis is group president for

Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for
The Coca-Cola Company. In this role, he is
responsible for overseeing six business
units spanning from Western Europe to
Russia to Southern Africa.
Lana Popovic
Bruno Pietracci
President, Africa & Middle East
Bruno Pietracci is president of Africa &
Middle East for The Coca-Cola Company. In
this role, he oversees three business units
in the region. Pietracci was named to this
newly created position in 2020 after
previously serving as president of the
company’s South and East Africa business
unit.

President, Central and Eastern Europe

Lana Popovic is president of the Central

and Eastern Europe (CEE) business unit,
where she oversees a territory that includes
26 countries from Russia to Italy.

Evguenia Stoichkova

President, Turkey, Caucasus and Central Asia

Stoichkova served as franchise general

manager for Italy and Albania. From 2010 to
Murat Ozgel 2013, she was franchise operations director
for Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and
President, Middle East and North Africa
Albania.
Ozgel has been with the Coca-Cola system
more than 15 years. He started with bottler
Coca-Cola Icecek before joining The Coca-
Cola Company in 2006. He has held a
variety of general management, marketing,
commercial and customer roles with the

Neeraj Garg
President, West Africa
Garg was named to his current role in
March 2019. He previously served as
general manager, New Growth Portfolio, for
the Turkey, Caucasus and Central Asia
business unit, based in Istanbul.
Tim Brett
President, Western Europe
Tim Brett is the President of The Coca-
Cola Company’s Western Europe business
Latin America Group
Henrique Braun
President, Brazil
Henrique was previously President for
Greater China & Korea at The Coca-
Cola Company. He joined The Coca-
Cola Company in 1996 in Atlanta, and
progressed through increasing
responsibilities in North America, Europe
and Latin America. Those positions included
supply chain, new business development,
marketing, innovation, general
management, bottling operations, as Braun
unit. He was previously responsible for the
company’s operations throughout Japan. He
moved to Warsaw, Poland in 2003 to lead
the company’s business in Poland and the
Baltic States.
Matrona Filippou
President, Southern and East Africa
Filippou served as franchise operations
director with the Central and Eastern
Europe business unit, covering 12 diverse
markets across Southeast Europe. She
worked closely with partners in the Coca-
Cola system to successfully drive alignment
and deliver strong performance by
accelerating business strategies, executing
winning consumer propositions, driving new
category expansion and developing talent.
served in regional, business unit and
corporate functions.
Roberto Mercadé
President, Latin Center
Roberto Mercadé is president of The Coca-
Cola Company’s Latin Center business unit.
Previously, he served as president of the
South Pacific business unit out of Sydney,
Australia.
Galya Molinas
President, Mexico
Galya Frayman Molinas is president of the
Mexico business unit of The Coca-
Cola Company. She began this role in
January 2019. She headed marketing
for Coca-Cola Eurasia Group from 2005
through 2008, a region that included India,
Russia, Turkey, Adriatic and Balkans,
Caucasus and Central Asia and the Middle
East.
North America Group
Alfredo Rivera
President, Coca-Cola North America
Alfredo Rivera is President of Coca-Cola
North America. Previously, he was
President of the company’s Latin America
group, where he oversaw the operations of
four business units across nearly 40 Latin
and Caribbean countries.
Joao Marcelo Ramires
President, South Latin
Ramires was Vice President of Operations
for the Brazil Division of The Coca-Cola
Company based in Rio de Janeiro. He was
responsible for leading the Franchise and
Customer and Commercial Leadership
functions in the company’s fourth largest
business unit. In this role, he also led the
company’s key customers and 10 bottling
partners to a new level of collaborative
planning and execution of the Brazil
business unit’s strategy.
John Hackett
President, Minute Maid
John Hackett is President of the Minute Maid
Business Unit, which is part of Coca-Cola North
America. Hackett took this position on Jan. 1,
2018. Hackett is responsible for growing and
expanding the company’s juice, dairy and plant-
based portfolio, including well-established
brands like Minute Maid and Simply, as well as
emerging, high-potential brands like ZICO,
fairlife and Suja.
 Hydration, Tea and Coffee businesses.
Boulden joined the company in August 2019
Kathleen Ciaramello as President and General Manager of
President, Foodservice and On-premise CCNA’s Venturing and Emerging Brands
(VEB).
Kathleen Ciaramello is President,
Foodservice and On-Premise, Coca-Cola
North America. In this role, she has
responsibility for all global, national and
regional customers operating within the
foodservice and on-premise channels of
business that are headquartered in the Selman Careaga
United States.
President, Sparkling Business Unit

Selman Careaga is President, Sparkling

Business Unit, U.S.A. Bottler Delivered
Brands, Coca-Cola North America. A 20-
year veteran of the Coca-Cola system,
Careaga has served in various marketing,
Darlene Nicosia
operations and leadership roles.
President, Canada

Nicosia previously served as vice president,

Commercial Products Supply, for The Coca- Global Ventures
Cola Company. In this role, she led a multi-
billion dollar supply chain responsible for the
manufacturing and sale of concentrates and
beverage bases to global bottling
operations.
Jennifer Mann

Senior Vice President and President of Global

Ventures

Jennifer Mann is senior vice president and

Melanie Boulden
President, Stills Business Unit
Melanie Boulden is President, Stills
Business Unit, Coca-Cola North America
(CCNA). She leads CCNA’s Water, Active
president of Global Ventures for The Coca-
Cola Company. Mann and her team focus
on globally scaling acquisitions and brands,
such as Costa Limited and Coca-Cola’s
investment in Monster Beverage Corp.