Coca-Cola VP Joining Board At Chevron

SF Chronicle  3feb01

1999 Coca-Cola Photo

Carl Ware, executive vice president of the Coca-Cola Co., has been elected to Chevron's board of directors.

At Coca-Cola, based in Atlanta, Ware has operational responsibilities for global communications, government relations, corporate external affairs and facilities management. He has held the position since January 2000, and prior to that served as president of the company's Africa group, overseeing business in nearly 50 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The 57-year-old executive joined Coca-Cola in 1974, and in 1982 was elected vice president of urban affairs, responsible for the company's domestic and international external affairs and philanthropic programs. In 1991, Ware was named deputy group president for Northeast Europe and Africa, based in London.

A native of Newnan, Ga., Ware has degrees from Clark Atlanta University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Active in community affairs in Atlanta, Ware has served as chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta United Way Campaign, which has raised $51 million for disadvantaged families in the Atlanta area.

With the addition of Ware, Chevron's board of directors consists of two employee directors and nine non-employee directors. Condoleezza Rice, a Chevron director since 1991, resigned Jan. 15 after being appointed national security adviser by President Bush.

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY NAMES CARL WARE
TO LEAD NEW DIVISION FOCUSED
ON COMPANY’S GLOBAL CONSTITUENTS
Ware Joins Company's Executive Committee,
Expands Global Portfolio

ATLANTA, January 4, 2000 - Doug Daft, president and chief operating officer of The Coca-Cola Company, today named Carl Ware to lead Global Public Affairs and Administration, a new division with worldwide responsibility for the Company's global public issues.

Mr. Daft will recommend to the Company's Board of Directors that Mr. Ware, currently senior vice president and president, Africa Group, be elected executive vice president. Mr. Ware will join the Company's Executive Committee and report directly to Mr. Daft.

Mr. Ware will assume senior management responsibility for Global Communications, Corporate External Affairs, Governmental Relations and Corporate Services. He will maintain strategic oversight of Africa operations once his successor as Group President is named. Mr. Ware will continue his role as co-chair of the Company's Diversity Advisory Council, and will lead implementation of diversity strategies worldwide. Mr. Ware will no longer retire at the end of 2000 as previously announced.

"Carl Ware will help guide The Coca-Cola Company through a world in which a growing number of stakeholders play an increasingly important role in creating our success and our ability to share that success with the communities in which we operate," Mr. Daft said.

"We have always believed that everyone who touches Coca-Cola should benefit," Mr. Daft said. "Carl's principal role is to ensure that The Coca-Cola Company continues to be welcome around the world, and that we apply 'community' and 'neighbor' equally to those who live next door, or on the next continent. We must think locally and act locally, and no one understands that better than Carl."

"I'm delighted by this new opportunity to serve the Company to which I've devoted 26 years," Mr. Ware said. "The importance of being a partner in the local community is as true in Nairobi as it is in New York. Our goal is to ensure that our business never loses sight of that fact wherever we operate, and to link ourselves more closely with the consumers and stakeholders we serve."

Mr. Ware joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1974 as an urban and governmental affairs specialist. In 1979, he was named vice president of special markets for Coca-Cola USA, with responsibility for expanding African-American and Hispanic marketing and advertising programs. In 1982, Mr. Ware was elected vice president, urban affairs, with responsibility for the Company's domestic and international external affairs and philanthropic programs. He was elected a senior vice president of the Company in 1986. Mr. Ware was named deputy group president, Northeast Europe and Africa in 1991, and was appointed president, Africa Group in 1993.

Mr. Ware was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1973 and served as president of the Council from 1976 until 1979. In 1990, he chaired the Metropolitan Atlanta United Way Campaign.

He serves as chairman of the board of trustees of Clark Atlanta University. He is a member of the boards of Georgia Power, Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund, Medical Education for South African Blacks and The Africa-America Institute. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Ware holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Clark Atlanta University, a master's degree in public administration from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and is a 1991 graduate of the Harvard Business School's International Senior Management Program.

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