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.

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

Shalini Ratwatte is the General Counsel for Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), and the Director of Legal and Compliance at Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka.

Shalini comes with over 30 years of extensive experience in legal and compliance, policy development, strategic planning, and coalition building at regional, state, and local levels across emerging markets in Southeast Asia and sits on the Boards of Sunshine Holdings PLC, the Environmental Foundation Limited and The Galle Cancer Fund.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited, Shalini was the Head of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Southeast Asia New Markets for Microsoft Asia. There she covered nine countries.

Shalini is passionate about wildlife & conservation, technology & innovation, and uplifting children & youth in disadvantaged communities. She serves as a pro bono advisor and patron for these initiatives.

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

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.

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.

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.

Himanshu Priyadarshi is the Chief Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Officer for HCCB.

He is responsible for defining HCCB’s strategy to continue inspiring growth and building trust with key stakeholders. He also works closely with Commercial, Supply Chain, and Enabling Functions to drive HCCB’s sustainability agenda and ensures that stakeholders recognize HCCB as a champion for our company’s purpose to refresh the world and make a difference.

Prior to joining HCCB, Himanshu was the Head of Public Affairs and Government Relations South Asia market in Tetra Pak. Himanshu has over 18 years of public policy and government affairs experience, having held various roles in leading companies such as PepsiCo India, Pfizer, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Reliance Industries, and Panacea Biotec

Himanshu graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Environment Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, and holds an MBA from Georgia Southern University, USA. He has also obtained multiple public policy and management-related certifications from the Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru, Harvardx, MICA, etc.

Yoginder Singh Grewal is the Chief Information Officer for HCCB. He is responsible for driving digital transformation, capability-building, adoption, and use of digital solutions to facilitate business growth, efficiency improvement, cost reduction, and streamlining the ways of working

Yoginder has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology, facilitating business growth through strategy design and execution and technology deployment in Digital business & Analytics area. He has helped HCCB drive technology strategy and transformation roadmap, implemented multiple projects to enable business growth and drive customer experience through Cloud migration, Digital Factory (Industry 4.0), Data warehouse/data lake solution using Azure and Power BI, robotic process automation, chat-bots and many more.

He Likes playing tennis and connecting with people.

Laura Cardona is the Head of Strategy and RGM for HCCB. She is responsible for
driving growth for HCCB by devising strategies for implementing long-range plans
and annual business plans. She also leads the market trends analysis and devises
strategies to drive business growth, maintain competitiveness, and achieve
organizational goals. She works with both internal and external stakeholders and
leads cross-functional teams in the execution of company-wide operational
strategies.
Laura has been in the Coca-Cola ecosystem for over 9 years, having started at
Coca-Cola FEMSA Colombia before working at Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines,
Inc (CCBPI).

Ashley D'Souza is the Chief Digital Officer for HCCB. In his role, Ashley leads and
oversees the development and support implementation of our company’s digital
initiatives, including our Digital eB2B strategy. This involves collaborating and
providing thought leadership to cross-functional teams for identifying and prioritizing
key business digital opportunities, as well as leveraging tech and digital solutions to
enhance the efficiency and productivity of current RTM with the aim of driving growth
through our eB2B Channel.

Ashley leads digital transformation acceleration across our ecosystem, containing
pillars on Demand Capturing, Demand Generation, Demand Fulfilment, Payment
gateways, and Customer Relationships by building and embedding practices
involving new Digital Capabilities and Tech, Data, and analytics insights. Ashley leads
the Digital Trade Marketing, Digital Product Management, and Digital Analytics pillars.

Ashley brings with him an impressive 18 years of experience across multiple
industries and organizations. His most recent role was as Head of Marketing &
Revenue for Amazon B2B, where he successfully launched Amazon Distribution
services in Hubli and introduced credit services for Amazon business customers.

Ashley began his career as a Management Trainee at Unilever in 2004 and held
significant roles, including becoming Branch Head at Colgate Palmolive in 2011. He
then ventured into the start-up world, contributing to the growth of Vega Foods and
Hector Beverages in 2015. He also joined Swiggy as VP for Business in 2017.

Ashley has a bachelor’s degree from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, and an MBA from
IIM Ahmedabad. He also has a Chartered Accountancy (Intermediate) degree from
the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.