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  • Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages announces appointment of Harsh Bhutani as chief financial officer

    Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages announces appointment of Harsh Bhutani as chief financial officer

    Mumbai– Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. (HCCB) today announced the appointment of Mr. Harsh Bhutani as its chief financial officer. Bhutani will be responsible for leading HCCB’s financial operations, including Business Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax, Treasury, Audit, Accounting & Controls, Reporting and Analysis, and Risk Management. Mr. Bhutani is currently serving as the Vice President of Finance for the India & Southwest Asia Operating Unit of The Coca-Cola Company.

    “I am pleased to welcome Mr. Harsh Bhutani as CFO. With his deep financial and business experience, strategic acumen, inspirational leadership, and proven track record of driving strong financial results, his presence will strengthen HCCB’s financial health, steer strategic decision making and further bolster stakeholder confidence. His relentless work in making finance a strategic enabler of growth and being future-ready is well recognized in the industry. We know he will continue to drive the business forward and will be a great addition to the executive team. I wish him all the best in his new, well-deserved role,” said HCCB CEO Juan Pablo Rodriguez.  

    With over 25 years of experience as a seasoned financial professional, Mr. Bhutani will be returning to HCCB after a highly successful tenure in Coca-Cola India & Southwest Asia, where he played a key role in achieving double-digit growth on a year-on-year basis. He was responsible for the transformation of several key projects with system bottling partners across various parts of India & Southwest Asia. His relentless focus on supporting the sustainability priorities of the company and taking meaningful steps towards creating a circular economy, including introducing rPET, yielded positive results.

  • Sarvita Sethi appointed as Coca-Cola India and southwest Asia VP M&A, Harsh Bhutani as CFO

    Sarvita Sethi appointed as Coca-Cola India and southwest Asia VP M&A, Harsh Bhutani as CFO

    MUMBAI: Keeping with developing business needs and investment in talent development, Coca-Cola India has made two-key changes at its top management. It has appointed Sarvita Sethi as vice-president, merger, and acquisitions (M&A) and new ventures, and Harsh Bhutani as vice president – finance (CFO),  for Coca-Cola India and southwest Asia. The appointments will be effective from 1 August.

    Sethi, who was earlier VP finance India and southwest Asia, had become the first woman to head the company’s finances for the region. In her new role, she will be responsible for the firm’s crucial incubator, which involves conceptualising, developing and launching new products relevant to the market, besides scaling up these new brands or products until they can be managed by general marketing and sales teams.

    Sethi is a chartered accountant with more than 15 years of experience in corporate finance, and had worked for Sainsbury’s and Viacom in London before joining Coca-Cola in 2008.

    She is known for her “results-oriented” mindset and her expertise in financial operations of fast-moving consumer goods firms. Her journey in the professional world began as an audit manager for the global audit and consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCooper in London in 1996. Before joining the professional world, Sethi went to City University London to finish her Bachelor’s in Science degree in economics and accountancy in 1995.

    Bhutani, a veteran at Coke’s bottling arm Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages will take over from Sethi. Before joining HCCB in 1999, he was with Swiss industrial products and solutions conglomerate – Asea Brown Boveri.

    A chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Bhutani has earned a name for himself, among his friends and colleagues, as an efficient business planner.