Juan Pablo Rodriguez is the CEO of Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages, one of India’s top FMCG companies. A coke veteran, Juan has spent more than 22 years in the Coca-Cola ecosystem.

Prior to taking over as the CEO of HCCB, he served as the Chief Commercial Officer of The Coca-Cola Bottling Investments Group (BIG), which is dedicated to investing and growing The Coca-Cola Company’s bottling operations around the world. In this role, he orchestrated the commercial strategy for BIG through strategic and long-term bets on portfolio, packs, market execution, and commercial capability. Juan has also served as the Vice President - Commercial, for Coca-Cola Beverages, Philippines.

Juan’s diverse experience in turning around business operations and driving sustainable business results, has seen him take up multiple roles in various countries including Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Philippines, Singapore and now India.

Juan holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Texas McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin.

Alok Sharma is the Executive Director of Supply Chain at Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd. (HCCB). He has been a part of the organisation for more than a decade now and has been instrumental in turning around medium-sized plants into mega plants. He also conceived India’s first ‘digital’ Coca-Cola factory with 40 percent gender diversity. Alok is a mechanical engineer and Six Sigma ‘black belt’ and has handled complex and large-scale operations in HCCB and in his previous assignments with Samsung & ITC Ltd as well.Alok is an engineering graduate from the Delhi College of Engineering.

Melvin is the Chief Financial Officer at HCCB.  He is responsible for strategic financial planning & analysis, commercial finance, cost management, business processes, treasury, tax, internal controls, and shared services.

He joined the Coca-Cola system in 2010 after a successful career spanning ten years with KPMG and Honeywell. As Financial Controller, Melvin worked at Coca-Cola’s Bottling Investment Group (BIG) in Singapore and Malaysia (SIMA) and progressed through roles of increasing responsibility within the finance function.

 As CFO of SIMA operations, Melvin has been instrumental in the successful implementation of the Coke One system, the establishment of robust financial governance systems, and the setting up of greenfield bottling operations in Malaysia. He also won appreciation for his active role in supporting overall strategy, commercial and supply-chain business partnerships, financial turnaround, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and various tax changes.

Sunil is a seasoned and agile business leader with 24+ years of multi-function experience in the FMCG industry. In his current role at HCCB, Sunil is responsible for delivering transformational and profitable growth through strategic interventions, digitising the commercial and operations processes at the company, building organisational capability for competitive advantage, and ensuring market share leadership across Non-Alcoholic Ready to Drink (NARTD) beverages.

During his tenure with HCCB over 15 years, Sunil has managed the Commercial Function, led operations in many zones, incubated the distribution function, pivoted the initial growth of the Modern Trade Function, and helped create the Premium Division.

 Sunil has diverse experience in turning around various unprofitable or marginally performing channels, customers, and categories, articulating long and short-term objectives, and developing bold strategies backed by focused execution. He is a passionate and inclusive people leader who believes in building and promoting strong teams and talent.

Sunil has completed his full-time Post Graduation in Business Management from Chetanas Institute of Management and an Executive MBA Degree in General Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Prasanna is the Chief Transformation Officer at HCCB, wherein he is responsible for several transformation projects: Returnable Capabilities, S&OP evolution, Cross-functional interactions, and Process simplification, among others. 

Prasanna has been with the Coca-Cola System for 21 years, starting as a Sales Manager. He has held diverse leadership roles across functions such as Commercial, Supply Chain, Business Transformation and ERP implementation, Business Shared Services, and IT and Digital.

In his previous role as CIO, Prasanna brought large-scale digital transformation to HCCB. He drove capability-building, adoption, and use of digital solutions. He led the end-to-end digitization of processes to facilitate business growth, efficiency improvement, cost reduction, and streamlined ways of working and spearheaded the implementation of more than 30 digital initiatives.

Prasanna is a postgraduate in management from IIM Bangalore

Preeti is a seasoned commercial lawyer with the experience of both in-house and private practice. She has served as a partner in law firms, before moving in-house, in her role as General Counsel and Executive Director at Kraft Heinz in India.

In her career as an external counsel, Preeti has advised on several complex domestic and cross-border transactions across industries such as Life Sciences, Insurance, FMCG and Infrastructure. Preeti is an active member in the legal community and a member of the Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA), International Bar Association (IBA) and the American Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).

A graduate from ILS Law College Pune, who also holds a Master’s Degree in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton, Preeti has been recognised by Legal 500 in their annual publication of the GC Powerlist (India, 2018).

Someone, passionate about giving back to society, Preeti likes to spend her free time volunteering with organisations to impart free legal education. She has been invited by Chambers & Partners, to be part of the Advisory Board for Diversity and Inclusion.

She is an avid traveller and an amateur classical dancer.

Gaurav Sharma is the Chief People Officer for Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB). He is responsible for delivering and orchestrating a refreshed people strategy with a key focus on accelerating capability, strengthening our talent pipeline across all functions and all levels of our organization, simplifying our approach to business, as well as curating a high-performing and people-first culture that supports our overall growth agenda.

Gaurav joined the Coca-Cola system in October 2010 and has served a significant time as the Human Resources Director for The Coca-Cola Company’s Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei businesses. He then moved to the Bottling Investments Group (BIG) office as Global HR Director to launch the Strategic Business Partnering and Organization Effectiveness practice. Gaurav played an important role in making BIG a more networked organization. He has also partnered closely with the entire BIG Senior Leadership Team in designing the organization, as well as delivering significant labour cost productivity to keep it flat to pre-pandemic levels. Gaurav has also strengthened the BIG functions by developing and implementing the functional People agenda.

Gaurav is a Physics graduate from St Stephen’s College, after which he went to XLRI Jamshedpur for his MBA in Human Resources.

Saba is the Chief Procurement Officer at HCCB. In her current role, Saba’s mandate is to work closely with business and drive transformation of the procurement function. With her multi-cultural and multi-geography experience in FMCG procurement, spanning raw material, sales, marketing, media, IT, contract manufacturing and plant purchases, Saba brings in unique blend of knowledge and skill sets.

Prior to joining HCCB, Saba worked with Procter & Gamble where she took several leadership roles across categories and worked on Indian and international assignments. She is credited with developing talent and making procurement a sphere of competitive edge, for the business.

She is based at the HCCB headquarters in Bengaluru and is a member of the senior leadership team that reports into the CEO.

Saba has a passion for diversity and inclusion and has been a change leader in this domain