Jennifer Mann
Executive Vice President and President, North America Operating Unit of The Coca-Cola Company
Independent Director since: 2025
Key skills and experience:
- Leadership: A thoughtful and seasoned executive with a proven track record of success over a 28 year-career at The Coca-Cola Company. Manages multiple stakeholder groups that are critical to the company’s success, including customers, system partners, constituents and government officials. As the company’s former Global Chief People Officer from 2017 to 2019, led a global HR function for the company’s 70,000 employees globally, driving people-related change, the transformation required to enable a new enterprise strategy and the modernization of the function by developing a data-driven approach to The Coca-Cola Company’s talent and organizational capability.
- Marketing and Brand Management: As head of The Coca-Cola Company’s Global Ventures business from 2019 to 2023, managed many of the company’s top brands, including Costa Coffee, Innocent, Dogadan and the company’s stake in Monster Energy.
- Consumer/B2B/Retail: With a strong consumer orientation developed over multiple leadership roles, leads The Coca-Cola Company’s flagship market comprising the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, with 320 million consumers holding $350 billion in industry value. Earlier as Global Vice President, led Coca-Cola Freestyle, the touch screen soda fountain, and transformed the business from an innovation bet to a profitable global business that generated $1 billion in revenue.
- Strategic Planning: Oversees a full cross-functional leadership team at The Coca-Cola Company and an $8 billion supply chain and manages 66 franchise bottling partners representing more than 88,000 system employees and 2,300 customers. As the former head of the Global Ventures business, led the company’s largest historical acquisition of Costa Coffee and its integration into the company.
Career highlights:
- The Coca-Cola Company, a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories
- Executive Vice President and President, North America Operating Unit (2023-present)
- Senior Vice President and President, Global Ventures (2019-2023)
- Senior Vice President and Global Chief People Officer (2017-2019)
- Other Executive Positions (2008-2019)