2. STEVEN CAHILLANE – $8.247m ($6.149m, 5)
Until recently Cahillane was Coke’s executive VP and president of Coca-Cola Americas. Having been tipped as a possible successor to Kent, he surprised industry onlookers by resigning, and left the company is February 28 2014.
“We have previously believed Cahillane to be a strong CEO successor, but given the sudden and unexpected nature of his departure announcement, we can’t help but wonder what happened,” Wells Fargo securities senior analyst Bonnie Herzog wrote in a note last December.
The executive cleared a tidy sum in 2013, having been handed a 4.2% rise following his appointment to his last role, where he headed up Coke’s North American and Latin American operations.
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