Esat Sezer is named Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. senior vice president. Check it out:
(Turkish Daily News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Coca-Cola Enterprises announced that Esat Sezer of Turkey has been named senior vice president and chief information officer. Sezer, 44, will oversee the company's technology and information capabilities and will report to John F. Brock, president and chief executive officer.
The Coca-Cola Company had earlier appointed another Turk, Muhtar Kent, as president of Coca-Cola International and executive vice president of The Coca-Cola Company.
"Esat has more than 20 years of global information technology experience," said Brock. "His proven leadership skills and his expertise in enterprise-wide SAP implementation will help Coca-Cola Enterprises expand the capabilities and technologies necessary to better engage our employees and provide unparalleled service to our customers."
Most recently, Sezer served as corporation vice president and chief information officer for Whirlpool Corporation, a position he held since 2002 prior to joining Whirlpool as vice president of global information services in 2001.
Sezer held several positions of increasing responsibility with Colgate-Palmolive Co., including global information technology director, Europe/Africa/Middle East Division director, global applications associate director and information technology director in Warsaw and in Istanbul.
From 1988 to 1991, he was a senior consultant at Andersen Consulting in London. Born and raised in Istanbul, Sezer received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University and his master of science in quantitative analysis from Istanbul University. Sezer will replace Bill Hartman, vice president of information technology.
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is the world's largest marketer, distributor and producer of bottle and can liquid nonalcoholic refreshment. Coca-Cola Enterprises sells approximately 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's bottle and can volume in North America and is the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, and the Netherlands
Copyright 2006 Turkish Daily News. Source: Financial Times Information Limited - Middle East Intelligence Wire.
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