Coca-Cola: New president and CFO
John Murphy will become president and chief financial officer at The Coca-Cola Company in October.
Murphy, who currently serves as executive vice president and CFO, will add the president role following the retirement of Brian Smith (who has been president and chief operating officer since 2019 and will stay with the company as a senior executive through February 2023).
Murphy has served as CFO since 2019. He oversees Mergers & Acquisitions, Investor Relations, Global Strategy, Tax, Treasury, Audit, Accounting and Controls, Reporting and Analysis, Real Estate and Risk Management. As president and CFO, he will take on expanded duties, including oversight of Global Ventures; Platform Services; online-to-offline (O2O) digital transformation; and customer and commercial leadership.
From 2016 to 2018, Murphy served as president of the company’s former Asia Pacific group. He was also responsible for the company’s Bottling Investments Group, primarily focused on key markets in Southeast and Southwest Asia.
From 2013 to 2016, Murphy served as president, South Latin business unit, where he was responsible for operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. From 2008 to 2012, he was president, Latin Center business unit, responsible for operations in 31 countries in Central America, the Caribbean and the Andean Region.
Murphy began his career at Coca-Cola in 1988 as an international internal auditor and, in 1991, moved to Coca-Cola Japan as executive assistant to the CFO. This was followed by various other roles with Coca-Cola Japan (including deputy president), Coca-Cola’s Singapore bottling partner, F&N Coca-Cola Ltd., as regional manager in Indonesia and as vice president of Business Systems for Coca-Cola North America.
Before joining Coca-Cola, Murphy worked for four years as an auditor for Price Waterhouse in Dublin.