Bonnie Pruett Wurzbacher Biography

Bonnie has held various executive and global leadership roles in sales, marketing, and management at The Coca-Cola Company, rising to Senior Vice President, Global Customer & Channel Leadership, with responsibility for a $1.6 billion portfolio of global customers, new business acquisition, and channel strategy development. This effort necessitated close coordination and engagement with their franchisee bottlers and retail consumers worldwide. She founded and headed the Company's first Global Customer Council, as well as being a founding member of their Global Women's Leadership Council. She finished her 27-year career at Coca-Cola by helping the company develop and launch a new worldwide program called 5 BY 20 that aims to economically empower 5 million women entrepreneurs by 2020. It will meet the Company's commitment to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by utilizing their broad value chain to strengthen the commercial skills of small, family-owned companies in underdeveloped nations. Bonnie's awareness and passion for business's essential role in advancing the economic well-being of communities all over the world has made her an outstanding advocate for profitable, sustainable, and ethical business practices. She is a regular public speaker on this topic. Bonnie is presently working as a Senior Advisor for World Vision, the world's biggest Christian humanitarian organization, which works in over 100 countries to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. She also works with other corporations and non-profit groups as a consultant. She serves as an independent director at Cbeyond, Inc., a trustee at Columbia Theological Seminary, a board member at Wheaton College's J. Dennis Hastert Center, and an elder at Peachtree Presbyterian Church. She has also served on the boards of GFS, Inc., The Georgia Independent College Association (former Chair), The Network of Executive Women, The March of Dimes, and the Wheaton College Board of Visitors during her career. Bonnie was named one of Christianity Today's "50 Women You Should Know" in October 2012 for her contributions to the evangelical church and North American culture. She was also honored with the Paul F. Thiele Leadership Award for her vision and leadership of Georgia's private schools and universities. Bonnie earned a B.A. in Education from Wheaton College in 1977 and an M.B.A. in General Management from Emory University in 1990. She and her husband, Steve, have residences in Atlanta and Texas, and they have one son, Daniel, who is married to Jessica Fry.

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