John Murphy
President and Chief Financial Officer
John Murphy is President and Chief Financial Officer of The Coca‑Cola Company. He oversees Global Ventures; Platform Services; offline-to-online (O2O) digital transformation; Customer and Commercial Leadership; and Finance and Strategy. Murphy is also responsible for representing the company with multiple stakeholders, including investors, lenders and rating agencies.
Murphy was named CFO in 2019 and president in 2022. From 2016 to 2018, he served as president of the company’s Asia Pacific group. He was responsible for operations in the group’s five business units. He was also responsible for the company’s Bottling Investments Group, primarily focused on key markets in Southeast and Southwest Asia.
Murphy served as president of the South Latin business unit from 2013 to 2016, where he was responsible for operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Prior to that, he was president of the Latin Center business unit from 2008 to 2012, where he was responsible for operations in 31 countries in Central America, the Caribbean and the Andean Region.
Murphy began his career with Coca‑Cola in 1988 and went on to hold a variety of general management, finance and strategic planning roles around the world, including vice president of business systems in Coca‑Cola North America in 2000, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Coca‑Cola Japan in 2000, deputy president of Coca‑Cola Japan in 2004 and vice president of strategic planning for Coca‑Cola from 2005 to 2008.
Before joining Coca‑Cola, Murphy worked for four years as an auditor for Price Waterhouse in Dublin, Ireland.
Murphy is a member of the boards of Coca‑Cola FEMSA, The Coca‑Cola Foundation and Engage. He is on the board of trustees of the Woodruff Arts Center and co-chairs, with his wife Talia, the University of Georgia’s Parents Leadership Council.
Murphy earned a bachelor's degree in business studies from Trinity College in Dublin and a diploma in professional accounting from University College in Dublin. He qualified as a chartered accountant of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Person subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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