Atul Singh
President & CEO, Coca-Cola India and South West Asia
Atul Singh is the President & CEO of Coca-Cola India and South West Asia Business Unit, a responsibility that he took over on September 1, 2005. He is responsible for Coca-Cola’s operations in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives.
Under his stewardship, Coca-Cola’s business in India has made strides in all facets of its operations and has reported twenty consecutive quarters of growth of which fourteen quarters have registered double digit growth.
Atul joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1998 as Vice President, Operations of Coca-Cola, India Division. He led the Franchise Operations and Key Accounts group of the India Division from 1998 to 2001. Atul then moved to China and served as the President of the East, Central and South China Division. Additionally, Atul was also responsible for the global and strategic Key Customer Relationships for Greater China and was a member of the Customer Leadership Council. Prior to this, Atul served as Deputy Division President and headed the Operations group of China Division. Under his leadership, mainland China operations were among the fastest growing Coca-Cola businesses.
Atul is an independent Director on the Board of Bata India Ltd. He is also the current Chairman of AMCHAM India and the Vice-Chairman of the Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce (APCAC) for South Asia. He is the Chairman of the Sports Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) having earlier chaired CII’s National Committee on Rural Development and the National Committee on CSR. He is also the Chairman of the Environment Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), having earlier led the Sports Committee of FICCI for three years. Atul is a member of the Advisory Board of AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global body dedicated to creating ‘Better Leaders through Education and Idea Exchange’.
Atul is regularly invited to panel discussions and guest lectures across the globe. He has been a panelist at the Indian Economic Summit, World Economic Forum on subjects of Sustainability, Rural Development and Supply Chain Management over the past five years. He has been invited to be a guest speaker at several business schools like the Kellogg’s Business School, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and Singapore Management University. He has also addressed several sessions for CII, FICCI, AMCHAM, Asia Society and US India Business Council etc.
Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Atul worked with The Colgate Palmolive Company for 10 years and held several key positions including Country General Manager, Nigeria (1995-1998), Finance Director and then Country General Manager, Romania (1992-1995) and Finance Manager, Body Care Division, USA (1990-1992). Before joining Colgate, Atul worked as an Auditor with Price Waterhouse in New York.
Atul is an alumnus of the prestigious St. Xavier’s College of Kolkata, India from where he majored in Commerce (Honors). Atul holds an MBA degree from Texas Christian University, USA.
He has lived and worked in the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.