Executive Leadership Team

Executive Leadership Team

The Executive Leadership Team, led by the Chief Executive Officer, represents the executive leadership of the company

Role of the Executive Leadership Team

The Executive Leadership Team, led by the Chief Executive Officer, meets twelve times each year and is responsible for:

  • The day-to-day executive management of the Group and its businesses including all matters not reserved for or delegated to the Board or other bodies
  • The development of the Group strategies and implementation of the strategies approved by the Board
  • Providing adequate head-office support for each of the Group’s countries
  • The setting of annual targets and approving annual business plans including a comprehensive programme of strategies and targets agreed between the Country General Managers and the Region Directors
  • Working closely with the Country General Managers as set out in the Group’s operating framework in order to capture benefits of scale, ensuring appropriate governance and compliance and managing the performance of the Group
  • Leading the Group’s talent and capability development programmes
     
  • The-Board-2024-Zoran-Bogdanovic The-Board-2024-Zoran-Bogdanovic
    Zoran Bogdanovic

    CEO, Executive Director

    Senior management tenure: Appointed June 2013, appointed Chief Executive Officer December 2017.

    Previous Group roles: Zoran was previously the Company’s Region Director responsible for operations in 12 countries. He joined the Company in 1996 and has held a number of senior leadership positions, including as General Manager of the Company’s operations in Croatia, Switzerland and Greece.

    Previous relevant experience: Prior to joining Coca-Cola HBC in 1996, Zoran was an auditor with auditing and consulting firm Arthur Andersen.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Croatian

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    Naya Kalogeraki

    Chief Operating Officer


    Senior management tenure: 
    Appointed July 2016, appointed Chief Operating Officer September 2020

    Previous Group roles: Naya served as Chief Customer and Commercial Officer from 2016 to 2020. She joined the Group in 1998 and has since held a range of senior leadership positions of progressively increasing responsibility, including Marketing Director, Trade Marketing Director, Sales Director, Country Commercial Director and General Manager. She has extensive experience across commercial, marketing and general management functions, and has contributed to the Group’s strategic oversight through participation in Groupwide initiatives, strategic projects and task forces focused on key business priorities and long-term value creation.

    Previous relevant experience: Naya joined the Company in 1998 from The Coca-Cola Company where she held a number of marketing positions up to Marketing Manager.

    External appointments: Naya is a board member of Casa del Caffè Vergnano S.p.A., in which the Group holds a 30% equity shareholding.

    Nationality: Greek

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    Anastasis Stamoulis

    Chief Financial Officer


    Senior management tenure: 
    Appointed May 2024

    Previous Group roles: Anastasis joined Coca-Cola HBC in 2008 as Commercial Controller for our operation in Greece. Since 2011, he has held various senior financial roles, including CFO Baltics (2011- 2014), CFO Bulgaria (2014-2015) and CFO Italy (2015-2018). In 2018, he assumed the role of Group Financial Controller, and from 2021 until 2023, he held the role of Head of Finance Operations. From 2023 up until appointment to the role of Group CFO, he led the Group Strategic Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis.

    Previous relevant experience: Before joining Coca-Cola HBC, Anastasis worked in senior financial positions with Ford Motor Company in Greece and the UK, and Volvo Cars in Greece as finance manager.

    Nationality: Greek

     

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    Jan Gustavsson 

    General Counsel, Company Secretary and Chief Corporate Development Officer

    Senior management tenure: Appointed August 2001

    Previous Group roles: Jan served as Deputy General Counsel for Coca‑Cola Beverages plc from 1999-2001.

    Previous Group roles: Jan served as Deputy General Counsel for Coca-Cola Beverages plc from 1999 to 2001. Previous relevant experience: Jan started his career in 1993 with the law firm White & Case in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1995, he joined The Coca-Cola Company as Assistant Division Counsel in the Nordic and Northern Eurasia Division. From 1997 to 1999, Jan was Senior Associate in White & Case’s New York office, practising securities law and M&A.

    External appointments: Jan is a board member of Casa del Caffè Vergnano S.p.A., in which the Group holds a 30% equity shareholding.

    Nationality: Swedish

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    Toon van der Veer

    Chief People & Culture Officer

    Senior management tenure: Appointed March 2026

    Previous Group roles: None

    Previous relevant experience: Before joining Coca-Cola HBC, Toon was at AB InBev, bringing over 18 years of global commercial and HR leadership experience across Europe, Asia and the United States. Most recently, he served as Global Vice President, People Continuity, overseeing talent, learning and development, attraction and culture, and engagement.

    He previously held several senior leadership roles, including Vice President, People & Transformation Europe, and Business Unit President for Japan and Southeast Asia.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Dutch

  • The-ELT-2024-Ivo-Bjelis The-ELT-2024-Ivo-Bjelis
    Ivo Bjelis 

    Chief Supply Chain Officer

    Senior management tenure: Appointed January 2022

    Previous Group roles: Ivo joined the Group in 1996 as Plant Manager in Croatia, while in 2002 he took over the position of Country Supply Chain Manager. Since 2006 Ivo built his career assuming roles of increased scale and scope, including Strategic Initiative Leader for Customer Centric Supply Chain, Group Supply Chain Processes and Capabilities Director, Regional Supply Chain Director, Group Supply Chain Services Director and Group Supply Chain Operations Director, leading the development and the transformation of the Supply Chain strategy over the years.

    External appointments: None 

    Nationality: Croatian

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    Karyn Harrington

    Chief Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Officer

    Senior management tenure: Appointed August 2025

    Previous Group roles: None

    Previous relevant experience: Karyn joined the Group from TCCC, where she most recently served as Vice President, Public Affairs, Communications & Sustainability for the Africa Operating Unit. Karyn brings a wide range of experience to our team, having held multiple senior leadership positions across the public affairs, media relations, internal and leadership communications and sustainability areas in TCCC’s North American and African operations, as well as the corporate centre team. Her connection to the Coca-Cola system began in 1997 with the local bottler in California, which presented her with a university scholarship award from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Prior to joining TCCC, Karyn started her career as a journalist and TV news reporter.

    Nationality: American

     

  • The-ELT-2024-Mourad-Ajarti The-ELT-2024-Mourad-Ajarti
    Mourad Ajarti 

    Chief Digital and Technology Officer

    Senior management tenure: Appointed October 2019

    Previous Group roles: None.

    Previous relevant experience: Mourad has 20 years’ experience with two fastmoving consumer goods industry leaders, Procter & Gamble and L’Oréal. Mourad started with Procter & Gamble leading SAP implementation in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Europe, and later was CIO for different lines of business. From 2014 to 2019, Mourad was CIO for the Asia and Pacific region for L’Oréal, leading consumer and customer journey transformation and enabling the use of big data and advanced analytics.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: British and Moroccan

  • Spyros Mello, Strategy and Transformation Director
    Spyros Mello 

    Strategy and Transformation Director

    Senior management tenure: Appointed November 2021

    Previous Group roles: Spyros served as Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer from 2010 to 2021. He was Deputy General Counsel from 2007 to 2009 and Senior Corporate Counsel from 2005 to 2007.

    Previous relevant experience: Spyros was an associate with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP practising securities law and M&A first in New York from 1999 to 2001 and then in London from 2001 to 2004.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Greek

  • The-ELT-2024-Minas-Agelidis The-ELT-2024-Minas-Agelidis
    Minas Agelidis 

    Region Director


    Regions: 
    Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, island of Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland

    Senior management tenure: Appointed April 2019.

    Previous Group roles: Minas joined the Group in 1999, holding positions with increasing responsibility in the commercial function in Greece (National Account Manager, Athens Region Sales Manager, National Wholesale Manager, Country Sales Director). Since 2008, Minas has held general management assignments in a number of our markets, including those of Country General Manager Cyprus, Country General Manager Bulgaria and Country General Manager Hungary.

    Previous relevant experience: Prior to joining the Group, Minas spent seven years at Unilever Greece in managerial positions in sales and marketing including those of Brand Manager, Trade Marketing Manager and National Account Manager.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Greek

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    Frank O'Donnell 

    Region Director


    Regions:
     Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

    Senior management tenure: Appointed June 2023

    Previous Group roles: Frank joined the Group in 1992 holding positions with increasing responsibility in the commercial function in Ireland, becoming Sales Director in 2003. From 2010, Frank was Commercial Director of our Czech/Slovak business unit. Since 2014, Frank has held general management assignments in a number of our markets, including those of Country General Manager Ireland, Country General Manager Austria and Country General Manager Italy.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Irish

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    Vitaliy Novikov 

    Digital Commerce Business Development Director 

    Senior management tenure: Appointed September 2020

    Previous Group roles: Vitaliy joined the Group in 2011 as General Manager of the Baltics business unit and then held General Manager roles in Poland and Italy.

    Previous relevant experience: Prior to joining the Group, Vitaliy spent four years at Johnson & Johnson as Managing Director of the Ukrainian operation and prior to this he spent seven years at Henkel in managerial positions of growing responsibility in Austria and Ukraine.

    External appointments: None 

    Nationality: Ukrainian

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    Jaak Mikkel 

    New Businesses Director

    Senior management tenure: Appointed February 2023

    Previous Group roles: Jaak joined the Group in 2008 as Sales Director for Baltics and then held roles of General Management for Pivara Skopje in North Macedonia, Romania with the latest being General Manager for Poland & Baltics.

    Previous relevant experience: Prior to joining the Group, Jaak spent ten years with Shell managing Convenience Retail businesses in the Baltics, Central Eastern Europe and in the Nordics.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Estonian

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    Vladimir Kosijer

    Region Director

    Senior management tenure: Appointed as Regional Director in July 2025; previouslyActing Regional Director from February 2024

    Previous Group roles: Vladimir joined the Group in 2002 as a sales representative. He joined the Ukrainian team in 2013 in the role of Capability Development Director, then held the Sales Director role for four years while expanding responsibility over Moldova. In 2018 Vladimir took the position of General Manager in North Macedonia. In 2019 he was appointed business unit Sales Director of Russia and in 2023 he led Multon Partners as General Manager.

    External appointments: None

    Nationality: Serbian