Board of Directors

George A. David OBE MFR

Mr. David, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A., graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1959. He began his career that same year with the group of companies controlled by his uncle A.G. Leventis in Nigeria.

Today, he holds a position on the Board of Directors of Petros Petropoulos AVEE, Titan Cement Co. S.A. and AXA Insurance S.A. He is a Trustee of the A.G. Leventis Foundation and a member of the boards of the Hellenic Institute of Defence and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies.

In 2009, Mr. David was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to UK-Greek relations in the field of education. He was also appointed Member of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR) for his special and outstanding service to the benefit and progress of the Nigerian nation.

Mr. David is a member of our Human Resources Committee and Social Responsibility Committee .

Dimitris Lois

Mr. Lois started his career in 1988 at Grecian Magnesite S.A., where he held various managerial posts including that of Business Development Manager. He holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Prior to his appointment to Coca-Cola Hellenic, he served as Managing Director of Frigoglass S.A. He joined Frigoglass S.A. in 1997, as the General Manager of the STIND S.A. glass plant in Bulgaria. He later became Country Manager for Bulgaria.

In 2000, he was appointed Commercial Refrigeration Director and in 2001, following Frigoglass S.A.’s acquisition of the Norcool Group and Husky, he was appointed Director of the newly created ‘cool’ division. He was appointed Managing Director of Frigoglass S.A. in August 2003.

Mr. Lois joined Coca-Cola Hellenic in June 2007 as Executive Advisor to the Managing Director. In August 2007, he was appointed Regional Director responsible for our operations in Romania, Greece, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Moldova and in August 2009 he became Chief Operating Officer for Coca-Cola Hellenic.

Mr. Lois was appointed the Company’s Chief Executive Officer on 1 July 2011.

Anastasios P. Leventis CBE OFR

Mr. Leventis worked in Nigeria for companies controlled by A.G. Leventis since the 1960s. He is on the Board of Directors of Boval S.A., which has widespread investments worldwide, as well as on the boards of subsidiaries of Boval S.A. in Nigeria. Mr. Leventis is Chairman of the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

On 4 April 1990, Mr. Leventis was appointed Honorary Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus to Nigeria by the government of the Republic of Cyprus. Mr. Leventis was honoured with the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of 2004 and was also awarded the Order of ‘Madarski Konnik’ by the President of Bulgaria in 2004.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2002. Mr. Leventis serves on the councils of several non-profit organisations.

Kent Atkinson

Mr. Atkinson joined the Bank of London and South America (later acquired by Lloyds Bank) and held a number of senior managerial positions in Latin America and the Middle East before returning to the UK.

He was Regional Executive Director for Lloyds TSB’s South East Region until he joined the main board as Group Finance Director, a position he held for eight years until his retirement as an executive. He remained on the Lloyds TSB board for a further year as a non-Executive Director.

Mr. Atkinson is a non-Executive Director and a member of the Group Audit and Risk Committees of Bank of Ireland, and he is a non-Executive Director of Gemalto NV, a member of its Audit Committee and its Strategy and M&A Committee.

Mr Atkinson is also a non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Risk Committee of UK Asset Resolution Ltd, (which includes Northern Rock (Asset Management) plc and Bradford & Bingley plc). Mr. Atkinson is a member of our Audit Committee .

Antonio D’Amato

Mr. D’Amato started his business career in 1979 with Cartoprint in Milan, part of the Finseda Group, a leading European company in the production of food packaging. He was employed in various capacities and he became president of the Finseda Group in 1991.

Since 1996, Mr. D’Amato has been a member of the board of directors of Confindustria, the Confederation of Italian Industry. From 1999 to May 2000, he was president of the Industrial Union of Naples. In May 2000, he was elected president of Confindustria.

In August 2000, Mr. D’Amato was appointed vice president of UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe) and later that year became a member of CNEL (Italian National Council for Economy and Labour). In July 2001, he became president of the LU ISS University in Rome, a leading Italian private university.

Anastassis G. David

Mr. David graduated from Tufts University in 1993 and began his career in the Coca-Cola Bottling System in the United States. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. David held several positions in the Sales and Marketing departments of Hellenic Bottling Company S.A.

During 1997, Mr. David worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, focusing on accounting and business finance. From 1998, Mr. David’s principal activity is advisor to Kar-Tess Holding S.A. on its bottling investments. Mr. David was Chairman of Navios Corporation, a major bulk shipping company, from 2002 to 2005 and currently serves as a member on the board of directors of IDEAL Group S.A. and Aegean Airlines S.A.

Mr. David is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Fares Center at Tufts University as well as a member of the International Board of Overseers of Tufts University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of College Year in Athens and member of the Executive Committee of the Cyprus Union of Shipowners.

Irial Finan

Mr. Finan holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from National University of Ireland in Galway and is an Associate (later Fellow) of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants.

He is an Executive Vice President of The Coca-Cola Company and President of Bottling Investments. He is responsible for managing a multi-billion dollar internal bottling business, which has operations in 5 continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia), revenues of over $8 billion and more than 85,000 employees. Additionally, he is responsible for stewarding The Coca-Cola Company’s equity investments.

Mr. Finan has over 29 years experience in the Coca-Cola System. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Hellenic, during which time he managed the merger and integration of Coca-Cola Beverages plc and Hellenic Bottling S.A., and led the combined company’s operations in 26 countries. Mr. Finan joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2004 as President, Bottling Investments and Supply Chain and was named Executive Vice President of the Company in October 2004.

From 1995 to 1999, he served as managing director of Molino Beverages and joint managing director of Hellenic Bottling Company S.A., with operational responsibility for expanding markets, including the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Romania, Moldova, the Russian Federation and Nigeria. Prior to that role, Mr. Finan worked in several markets across Europe. From 1991 to 1993, he served as Managing Director of Coca-Cola Bottlers Ulster Ltd., based in Belfast. He was Finance Director, Coca-Cola Bottlers Ireland, Ltd., based in Dublin from 1984 to 1990.

Mr. Finan serves on the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola FEMSA, Coca-Cola Hellenic, and the Supervisory Board of CCE AG. He also serves as a non-Executive Director for Co-operation Ireland and NUI Galway Foundation.

John Hunter

Mr. Hunter started his career with Coca-Cola in 1967 .He held positions of increasing responsibility in Hong Kong, Australia, Japan and Atlanta where he was named President of Coca-Cola International in 1991, a position he held until his retirement in 1996.

Mr. Hunter has served on the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola Amatil, Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc., Coca-Cola Ltd, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York and Coca-Cola Beverages plc. The latter merged with Coca-Cola Hellenic in 2000. From 1998 to 2000 Mr. Hunter was Chairman of Seagram Spirits and Wine Group and from October 2008 through April 2010 he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola Enterprises.

He is a member of our Human Resources Committee and Social Responsibility Committee .

Christos Ioannou

Christos Ioannou received his BA from Cornell University in 1994 and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1998.

Mr. Ioannou’s primary involvement is with J&P (Overseas) and J&P-AVAX, where he serves on both boards. The J&P Group is involved in construction, concessions and real estate in the Middle East, North Africa and south-east Europe.

Mr. Ioannou is also involved in the hotel business holding directorships in Athinaion SA (Athenaeum Intercontinental) and YES Hotels. Mr. Ioannou also serves on several other boards including Food Plus and Aegean Airlines S.A.

Haralambos K. Leventis

Mr. Leventis graduated from Cambridge University in 1963 and was admitted to the English Bar in 1964. He moved to Nigeria in 1964 to work for the companies controlled by A.G. Leventis.

He was involved in the management of a number of companies in the group, including Leventis Motors Ltd, where he was the Executive Director responsible to the board for the management of the company.

Mr. Leventis is a director of several companies in the Leventis Group in Nigeria and elsewhere, and also a Trustee of the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith KCVO CMG

Sir Michael has had a distinguished career in the British diplomatic service including postings to Moscow, Paris and Athens, culminating in positions as British Ambassador to Poland (1991–1996) and then British Ambassador to Greece (1996–1999).

He is currently Vice President of the British School at Athens, Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and member of the council of the Anglo-Hellenic League. He is also a historian and author of a number of books about Greece.

Sir Michael is Chairman of our Human Resources Committee and Social Responsibility Committee .

Nigel Macdonald

Mr. Macdonald was formerly a Senior Partner in Ernst & Young’s UK practice, having been a partner for 27 years, during which he served as Vice Chairman of the Accounting and Auditing Committees of Ernst & Young’s worldwide practice.

Mr. Macdonald is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, of which he was the president between 1993 and 1994. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund and also an advisor to it, as well as a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum and Chairman of both its Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee. Mr. Macdonald is also chairman of a privately held retail business in London.

Between 1994 and 2001, he was a member of the Industrial Development Advisory Board of the UK Government and, from 1992 until the end of 2004, he was a member of the Board of the British Standards Institute and Chairman of its Audit Committee. From 1990 until 2006, he was a member of the Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council and from 1998 until 2005, he was a member of the UK Competition Commission serving on its specialist panels on electricity and water.

Mr. Macdonald is a member of our Audit Committee .