Coca-Cola, Bacardi and Nespresso are among the companies welcoming new faces to top jobs.
Coca-Cola, Bacardi and Nespresso are among the companies welcoming new faces to top jobs.
This month, Bacardi has announced a series of C-suite talent moves within global commercial and finance and the North America business.
Current Regional President for North America Pete Carr (pictured above) will take on the newly created role of Executive Vice President and Global Growth Officer. He will be responsible for commercial excellence and strategy, route-to-market models, digital commerce, and on-trade relationships for the family-owned spirits business.
Carr comes 'armed to spearhead continued commercial success' for Bacardi, with a lifetime of spirits experience and more than eight years at the helm of one of the company’s largest markets. Under his leadership, Bacardi introduced a new model for national spirits distribution in the U.S. and propelled investment in digital commerce in the region to power this growing channel for spirits sales.
Tony Latham, currently global Chief Financial Officer, will take over as Regional President of North America. In the last three years, Latham has played a critical role as CFO of Bacardi, steering the company through the recent global challenges, and moving with speed and agility to seize opportunities that have kept Bacardi at the forefront of what’s new and next. In his time at Bacardi, Latham has worked closely with the business in North America and is well versed with the commercial, organizational, and route-to-market aspects of the region, leaving him well-positioned to win in his new role.
Albert Vila Tarres succeeds Tony with a promotion to the role of Bacardi Limited Global Chief Financial Officer (CFO). His 12-year journey with Bacardi has taken him across the globe, having served as CFO for the regions of Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and, most recently, North America.
Latham will move to the Coral Gables, Florida, office as he takes over the North America business, while Pete and Albert will be based at the Bacardi global headquarters in Bermuda, pending authorization by the Bermuda Department of Immigration. All moves are effective at the start of the new fiscal year on April 1, 2023.
Bacardi has also announced several moves within its global marketing leadership.
John Burke, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Bacardi and President of Bacardi Global Brands Limited, will retire at the end of 2022 after more than 28 years with the company.
Following Burke’s retirement, Ned Duggan will be promoted to Global Chief Marketing Officer of Bacardi and President of Bacardi Global Brands Limited. Since 2017, Ned has led Bacardi rum, first in market execution in North America and later globally from Bermuda as SVP. In addition to his continued leadership of Bacardi rum, he will add Martini, Dewar’s, William Lawson’s and D’usse among others. Duggan’s ascension is the culmination of a 17-year-tenure at Bacardi that began as an Assistant Brand Manager. His career has spanned assignments at regional and global levels working on many company brands.
Kathy Parker, President & CMO of Grey Goose vodka and the tequila portfolio, which includes Patron and Cazadores, will add Bombay Sapphire gin to her remit following Burke’s retirement. Parker is a member of the company’s Global Leadership Team.
Suntory Beverage & Food (SBF) GB&I has appointed Daniel Woodhead to lead its supply chain operations across Great Britain and Ireland.
Woodhead will oversee the supply of the manufacturer’s soft drinks business, which includes the Lucozade and Ribena brands.
He joins the team from alcoholic drinks firm Asahi UK, where he held the role of supply chain director for almost two years before he became the director of logistics.
Prior to his time with Asahi, Woodhead held a number of senior supply chain roles, including three years with consumer goods firm Henkel and a nine-year stint with General Mills in the UK.
The American Beverage Association (ABA), the national trade organization for manufacturers and distribution of non-alcoholic beverages, has announced the election of new officers and members to its Board of Directors.
The members elected to serve a first term are: Shane Grant, chief executive officer, North America, Danone; and Andy Peykoff II, chief executive officer, Niagara.
At ABA’s Board of Directors meeting this month, the Board voted to re-elect Matthew Dent, president and chief executive officer, Buffalo Rock Company, as Board Chair. Other officers elected include: Bill O’Brien, chief executive officer, Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, as Vice Chair; and Ralph Crowley, president and chief executive officer, Polar Beverages, as Treasurer.
Those elected to serve for an additional term are: Bradley “Brad” Goist, chief operating officer, Refresco; Derek Hopkins, president, cold beverages, Keurig Dr Pepper; J. Andrew “Andy” Moore, co-president, Bigfoot Beverages; Paul Mulligan, co-founder and chief executive officer, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages; Jean Claude Tissot, president, Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages; John Torgerson, chief executive officer, Bernick’s; and Kirk Tyler, chairman & chief executive officer, Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
The Coca-Cola Company has named Evguenia “Jeny” Stoichkova as president of Global Ventures: a unit of the company that focuses on globally scaling acquisitions and brands (including Costa Coffee and Coca-Cola’s investment in Monster Beverage Corp).
Stoichkova currently serves as president of the company’s Eurasia & Middle East operating unit. Prior to her current role, which she has held since 2021, Stoichkova was president of the company’s former Turkey, Caucasus and Central Asia business unit from 2017 to 2020.
From 2013 to 2017, Stoichkova served as franchise general manager for Italy and Albania. From 2010 to 2013, she was franchise operations director for Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Albania.
A native of Bulgaria, Stoichkova joined Coca-Cola Bulgaria in 2004 as franchise country manager. She became marketing manager for sparkling soft drinks in the Adriatic and Balkans business unit in 2007. She was named as area marketing manager in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Macedonia in 2008 before becoming brand director for still beverages for South Eastern Europe in 2009.
Stoichkova started her career at Danone Group in 1994 and led Danone marketing in Bulgaria from 2000 to 2004.
Stoichkova begins her new role with Coca-Cola Global Ventures on Jan. 1, 2023, and will report to President and Chief Financial Officer John Murphy.
Stoichkova will be succeeded as president of the Eurasia & Middle East operating unit by Sedef Salingan Sahin, who currently serves as president of the nutrition, juice, dairy and plant category for the company. Sahin begins her new role Jan. 1, 2023, and will report to Chairman and CEO James Quincey.
Nespresso UK & Ireland has appointed a new CEO. Anna Lundstrom, formerly Nespresso’s global chief brand officer, has taken over from Guillaume Chesneau, who has moved on to become business executive officer for France.
Lundstrom joined Nespresso in 2010 as brand manager, and went on to hold titles including brand communications manager and head of brand identity. She joined the business’s leadership team as CBO in 2020.
