ATLANTA– WEBWIRE — Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Coca-Cola Company today revealed that Carlos Pagoaga, a 34 year veteran of the business, will be called Vice President of Global Community Affairs for The Coca-Cola Company and President of The Coca-Cola Foundation.
Pagoaga is anticipated to start his brand-new responsibilities June 1, prospering Saadia Madsbjerg. Madsbjerg has actually acted as head of the Foundation for 3 years and is stepping down to pursue other expert chances.
Pagoaga presently functions as the Foundations Senior Director, circular economy, where he is accountable for directing worldwide recycling efforts. In his broadened function, Pagoaga will handle all Foundation operations, that includes grant making; monetary requirements; and regulative compliance for domestic and worldwide philanthropy.
Carlos has incredible international experience with the business and will bring a wealth of insights to his broadened function as leader of The Coca‑Cola Foundation, stated Bea Perez, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Communications, Sustainability & & Strategic Partnerships Officer at The Coca‑Cola Company. Carlos will develop on the fantastic development Saadia has actually made in forming the tactical instructions of the Foundation for the future. I thank Saadia for her service and praise Carlos on his brand-new function.
Pagoagas visit is contingent on official election by the Foundation board, which is chaired by Perez.
Im enjoyed have the chance to lead The Coca‑Cola Foundation and to deal with our partners, Pagoaga stated. Im deeply happy with the function Coca‑Cola plays worldwide and of the Foundations contributions to many groups and neighborhoods.
Pagoaga signed up with Coca‑Cola in 1990 in Corporate Latin Affairs, where he handled relationships with Latino companies and chosen authorities throughout the United States. He later on relocated to the business North America system, where he handled multi-cultural interactions.
Pagoaga signed up with the Foundation in 2007 and has actually been accountable for a variety of responsibilities. He has actually directed numerous big grants, such as Replenish Africa Initiative, Project Last Mile and Atlanta BeltLine.
Pagoaga acts as chair of the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals, trustee for The Nature Conservancy in Georgia and Georgia Advisory Board member for Trust for Public Land.
He formerly acted as chairman of the National Hispanic Corporate Council, The Latin American Association and the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He is previous Communications Committee chair for the Piedmont Park Conservancy. He belonged to the Atlanta Regional Commissions Regional Leadership Institute class of 1997 and the Leadership Atlanta class of 2009.
Pagoaga was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Atlanta. He made a bachelor of organization administration degree in marketing and an MBA, both from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Pagoaga will report to Perez.
About The Coca‑Cola Foundation
The Coca‑Cola Foundations objective is to make a distinction in neighborhoods worldwide where The Coca‑Cola Company runs and where our staff members live and work. We support transformative concepts and organizations that resolve intricate worldwide difficulties which leave a quantifiable and enduring effect. Our providing is concentrated on sustainable access to safe water, environment durability and catastrophe danger readiness and reaction, circular economy, financial empowerment, and triggers affecting our home town neighborhood. Given that its creation in 1984, The Coca‑Cola Foundation has actually granted grants of over $1.6 billion in service of its required to reinforce neighborhoods throughout the world.
About The Coca‑Cola Company
The Coca‑Cola Company (NYSE: KOis an overall drink business with items offered in more than 200 nations and areas. Our business function is to revitalize the world and make a difference.We sell several billion-dollar brand names throughout numerous drink classifications worldwide.Our portfolioof gleaming soda brand names consists of Coca‑Cola, Sprite and Fanta.Our water, sports, coffee and tea brand names consist of Dasani, smartwater, vitaminwater, Topo Chico, BODYARMOR, Powerade, Costa, Georgia, Gold Peak and Ayataka. Our juice, value-added dairy and plant-based drink brand names consist of Minute Maid, Simply, innocent, Del Valle, fairlife and AdeS. Were continuously changing our portfolio, from decreasing sugar in our beverages to bringing ingenious brand-new items to market. We look for to favorably affect individuals lives, neighborhoods and the world through water replenishment, product packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and carbon emissions decreases throughout our worth chain. Together with our bottling partners, we utilize more than 700,000 individuals, assisting bring financial chance to regional neighborhoods worldwide. Discover more atwww.coca-colacompany.com
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