Ahmet Muhtar Kent was born on December 1,1952 and is a Turkish-American business executive.
22 Facts About Muhtar Kent
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Muhtar Kent was the chairman and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company.
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Muhtar Kent became CEO in 2008, and chairman in 2009.
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Muhtar Kent was born in 1952 in New York City, where his father, Necdet Muhtar Kent, was the consul-general of Turkey.
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Muhtar Kent found a job at the Coca-Cola Company in Turkey through a newspaper ad in 1978.
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Muhtar Kent toured the country in trucks to sell Coca-Cola, and thereby learned its distribution, marketing and logistics systems.
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In 1999, Muhtar Kent left the Coca-Cola Company after 20 years.
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Muhtar Kent extended the company's territory from Serbia to Pakistan.
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Muhtar Kent was required not only to give up the profit he made of $324,000, but pay $30,000 to cover the cost of an investigation by the Australian Securities Commission.
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Muhtar Kent has since claimed that his then financial adviser sold short some 100,000 shares of the company on Muhtar Kent's behalf a mere hours before the profit announcement.
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In May 2005, Muhtar Kent rejoined Coca-Cola after almost six years and was appointed president and chief operating officer of the company's North Asia, Eurasia and Middle East group, a position reporting directly to chairman and chief executive officer Neville Isdell.
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Muhtar Kent's rise continued and he was promoted in January 2006, to the newly created position of president of international operations.
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Muhtar Kent was named chief executive officer, effective July 1,2008.
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Muhtar Kent became chairman of the board and CEO, effective April 23,2009.
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Muhtar Kent is co-chair of the Consumer Goods Forum, a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the Business Roundtable, a past chairman of the US-China Business Council and current chairman emeritus of the US-ASEAN Business Council.
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Muhtar Kent was appointed as a member of the Eminent Persons Group for ASEAN by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.
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Muhtar Kent serves on the boards of Special Olympics International, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Catalyst and Emory University.
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Muhtar Kent received an honorary doctorate from Oglethorpe University in 2008.
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Muhtar Kent serves on the board of directors of The American Turkish Society and the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
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Muhtar Kent is an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Greece 2009 Bilderberg conference at the Astir Palace resort in Vouliagmeni, Greece.
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In May 2014, Muhtar Kent was awarded an honorary degree by the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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In 2016, Muhtar Kent was mentioned as a possible running mate for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US presidential election.