J. FRANK HARRISON, III, age 61, is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief
Executive Officer. Mr. Harrison, III was appointed Chairman of the Board of
Directors in December 1996. Mr. Harrison, III served as Vice Chairman from November
1987 through December 1996 and was appointed as the Companys Chief Executive
Officer in May 1994. He was first employed by the Company in 1977 and has served
as a Division Sales Manager and as a Vice President.
HENRY W. FLINT, age 61, is President and Chief Operating Officer, a position
he has held since August 2012. He has served as a Director of the Company since
April 2007. Previously, he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Company, a position he held since April 2007. Previously, he was Executive Vice
President and Assistant to the Chairman of the Company, a position to which
he was appointed in July 2004. Prior to that, he was a Managing Partner at the
law firm of Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P. with which he was
associated from 1980 to 2004.
WILLIAM J. BILLIARD, age 49, is Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer. His
previous position of Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting
Officer began in November 2010. He was first employed by the Company in February
2006 with the title of Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.
Before joining the Company, he was Senior Vice President, Interim Chief Financial
Officer and Corporate Controller of Portrait Corporation of America, Inc., a
portrait photography studio company, from September 2005 to January 2006 and
Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller from August 2001 to September 2005.
Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Tailored
Management, a long-term staffing company, from August 2000 to August 2001. Portrait
Corporation of America, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in August 2006.
ROBERT G. CHAMBLESS, age 50, is Senior Vice President, Sales, Field Operations
and Marketing, a position he has held since August 2010. Previously, he was
Senior Vice President, Sales, a position he held since June 2008. He held the
position of Vice President - Franchise Sales from early 2003 to June 2008 and
Region Sales Manager for our Southern Division between 2000 and 2003. He was
Sales Manager in the Company’s Columbia, South Carolina branch between
1997 and 2000. He has served the Company in several other positions prior to
this position and was first employed by the Company in 1986.
CLIFFORD M. DEAL, III, age 54, is Vice President and Treasurer, a position
he has held since June 1999. Previously, he was Director of Compensation and
Benefits from October 1997 to May 1999. He was Corporate Benefits Manager from
December 1995 to September 1997 and was Manager of Tax Accounting from November
1993 to November 1995.
MORGAN H. EVERETT, age 34, is Vice President, a position she has held since
January 2016. She has served as a Director of the Company since May 2011. Previously,
she was Community Relations Director of the Company, a position she held since
January 2009. She has served the Company in other positions prior to this position
and was first employed by the Company in 2004.
JAMES E. HARRIS, age 53, is Senior Vice President, Shared Services and Chief
Financial Officer, a position he has held since January 28, 2008. He served
as a Director of the Company from August 2003 until January 25, 2008 and was
a member of the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee. He served as Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MedCath Corporation, an operator
of cardiovascular hospitals, from December 1999 to January 2008. From 1998 to
1999, he was Chief Financial Officer of Fresh Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of
fully cooked food products. From 1987 to 1998, he served in several different
officer positions with The Shelton Companies, Inc. He also served two years
with Ernst & Young LLP as a senior accountant.
UMESH M. KASBEKAR, age 58, is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Secretary
of the Company, a position he has held since January 2016 and is Secretary of
the Company, a position he has held since August 2012. Previously he was Senior
Vice President, Planning and Administration, a position he held since January
1995. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Planning, a position he was appointed
to in December 1988.
DAVID M. KATZ, age 47, is Senior Vice President, a position he has held since
January 2013. Previously, he was Senior Vice President Midwest Region for Coca-Cola
Refreshments (“CCR”) a position he held since 2011. Prior to the
formation of CCR, he was Vice President, Sales Operations for Coca-Cola Enterprises
Inc.’s (“CCE”) East Business Unit. In 2008, he was promoted
to President and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales
and Services Company, LLC. He began his Coca-Cola career in 1993 with CCE as
a Logistics Consultant.
KIMBERLY A. KUO, age 45, is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Communications
and Communities, a position she has held since January 2016. Before joining
the Company, she operated her own communications and marketing consulting firm,
Sterling
Strategies, from January 2014 to December 2015. Prior to that, she served as
Chief Marketing Officer at Baker and Taylor, a book and entertainment distributor
from February 2009 to July 2013. Prior to her experience at Baker and Taylor,
she served in various communications and government affairs roles on Capitol
Hill, in political campaigns, trade associations, and corporations.
LAUREN C. STEELE, age 61, is Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, a position
to which he was appointed in March 2012. Prior to that, he was Vice President
of Corporate Affairs, a position he had held since May 1989. He is responsible
for governmental, media and community relations for the Company.
MICHAEL A. STRONG, age 62, is Senior Vice President, Employee Integration and
Transition, a position he has held since December 2014. Prior to December 2014,
he was Senior Vice President, Human Resources, a position to which he was appointed
in March 2011. Previously, he was Vice President of Human Resources, a position
to which he was appointed in December 2009. He was Region Sales Manager for
the North Carolina West Region from December 2006 to November 2009. Prior to
that, he served as Division Sales Manager and General Manager as well as other
key sales related positions. He joined the Company in 1985 when the Company
acquired Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Mobile, Alabama, where he began his career.
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