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from May 2001 until 2003 as Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Hellenic. Mr. Finan joined the Company and
was named President, Bottling Investments in August 2004. He was elected Executive Vice President of the
Company in October 2004.
E. Neville Isdell, 65, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Isdell joined the Coca-Cola
system 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 South Africa at the time. Mr. Isdell was named
Region Manager for Australia in 1980. In 1981, he became President of Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc., the
bottling joint venture between the Company and San Miguel Corporation in the Philippines. Mr. Isdell was
appointed President of the Central European Division of the Company in 1985. In January 1989, he was elected
Senior Vice President of the Company and was appointed President of the Northeast Europe/Africa Group,
which was renamed the Northeast Europe/Middle East Group in 1992. In 1995, Mr. Isdell was named President
of the Greater Europe Group. From July 1998 to September 2000, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Coca-Cola Beverages Plc in Great Britain, where he oversaw that company’s merger with Hellenic Bottling
and the formation of Coca-Cola Hellenic, one of the Company’s largest bottlers. Mr. Isdell served as Chief
Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Hellenic from September 2000 until May 2001 and served as Vice Chairman of
Coca-Cola Hellenic from May 2001 until December 2001. From January 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Isdell was an
international consultant to the Company. Mr. Isdell was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company on June 1, 2004, and served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company until
June 30, 2008. In December 2008, Mr. Isdell informed the Board of Directors of the Company that he did not
intend to stand for re-election to the Board of Directors at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareowners in
April 2009.
Glenn G. Jordan S., 52, is President of the Pacific Group. Mr. Jordan joined the Company in 1978 as a field
representative for Coca-Cola de Colombia where, for several years, he held various positions, including Region
Manager from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Jordan served as Marketing Operations Manager, Pacific Group from 1989 to
1990 and as Vice President of Coca-Cola International and Executive Assistant to the Pacific Group President
from 1990 to 1991. Mr. Jordan served as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Operations, for the Brazil
Division from 1991 to 1995, as President of the River Plate Division, which comprised Argentina, Uruguay and
Paraguay, from 1995 to 2000, and as President of the South Latin America Division, comprising Argentina,
Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, from 2000 to 2003. In February 2003, Mr. Jordan was
appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Operations for the Latin America Group and served in that
capacity until February 2006. Mr. Jordan was appointed President of the East, South Asia and Pacific Rim
Group in February 2006. The East, South Asia and Pacific Rim Group was reconfigured and renamed the Pacific
Group, effective January 1, 2007.
Geoffrey J. Kelly, 64, is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Mr. Kelly joined the
Company in 1970 in Australia as manager of the Legal Department for the Australasia Area. From 1970 until
2000, Mr. Kelly held a number of key roles, including Senior Counsel for the Pacific Group and subsequently for
the Middle and Far East Group. In 2000, Mr. Kelly was appointed Senior Counsel for International Operations.
He became Chief Deputy General Counsel in 2003 and was elected Senior Vice President of the Company in
February 2004. In January 2005, he assumed the role of Acting General Counsel to the Company, and in July
2005, he was elected General Counsel of the Company.
Muhtar Kent, 56, is President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Company. Mr. Kent joined the
Company in 1978 and held a variety of marketing and operations roles throughout his career with the Company.
In 1985, he was appointed General Manager of Coca-Cola Turkey and Central Asia. From 1989 to 1995,
Mr. Kent served as President of the East Central Europe Division and Senior Vice President of Coca-Cola
International. Between 1995 and 1998, he served as Managing Director of Coca-Cola Amatil Limited—Europe,
and from 1999 until 2005, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Efes Beverage Group and as a
board member of Coca-Cola Icecek. Mr. Kent rejoined the Company in May 2005 as President, North Asia,
Eurasia and Middle East Group, was appointed President, Coca-Cola International in January 2006 and was
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