E. Neville Isdell
Neville Isdell "was elected chairman, Board of Directors, and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company on June 1, 2004. Mr. Isdell is the 12th chairman of the Board in the history of the Company.
"A native of Ireland, Mr. Isdell joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1966 with the local bottling company in Zambia. In 1972, he became general manager of Coca-Cola Bottling of Johannesburg, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Africa. Mr. Isdell was named region manager for Australia in 1980, and in 1981 he became president of the bottling joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and San Miguel Corporation in the Philippines, where he oversaw the turnaround and renewal of the Coca-Cola business in that key country.
"Mr. Isdell moved to Germany as president of the Company's Central European Division in 1985. In 1989, he was elected senior vice president of the Company and appointed president of the Northeast Europe/Africa Group (renamed the Northeast Europe/Middle East Group in 1992) and led the Company's entry into new markets in India, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In 1995, he was named president of the Greater Europe Group.
"From July 1998 to September 2000, Mr. Isdell served as chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Plc in Great Britain, where he oversaw that company's merger with Hellenic Bottling to form the world's second largest Coca-Cola bottler at the time, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (HBC). He retired as vice chairman of Coca-Cola HBC in December 2001. From January 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Isdell was an international consultant to The Coca-Cola Company and headed his own investment company in Barbados.
"Mr. Isdell is chairman of the U.S.-Russia Business Council and chairman of the board of trustees of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). He is a member of the board of trustees of the United States Council for International Business and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS. In Atlanta, Mr. Isdell serves on the board of directors of SunTrust Banks, Inc. and the Commerce Club and as a trustee of Emory University. He is a lifetime trustee of Pace Academy." [1]
"It was in Zambia, in 1966, that he got his first job with The Coca-Cola Company at a local bottling plant. By 2004, he had risen to the position of chairman and CEO. .. Neville serves on the boards of a number of NGOs and is chairman of the World Wildlife Fund USA, and a member of the World Wildlife International Board of Trustees." [2] "He was on the WWF-US Board of Directors from 2009 to 2018, and served as chair from 2012 to 2018." [1]
- Trustee, Rhino Conservation Botswana
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- ↑ Neville Isdell, Coca-Cola, accessed October 7, 2007.
- ↑ Rhino Conservation Botswana Neville Isdell, organizational web page, accessed March 13, 2019.
