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Douglas N. Daft, age 63, was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company from 2000 until his retirement from the company in 2004. Mr. Daft joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1969 in its Sydney, Australia office, and subsequently held various positions with the company throughout Asia. Mr. Daft moved to the company’s Atlanta, Georgia headquarters in 1991 to assume responsibility for the company’s Asia and Pacific regions and thereafter assumed responsibility for the company’s Middle East and African regions as well. Mr. Daft was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the company in 1999 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. Mr. Daft is a Director of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Mr. Daft is an advisory board member for SISTEMA (the Russian Telecom Group) and Longreach, Inc. (a Japan-based private equity firm). Mr. Daft is also a member of the European Advisory Council for N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited; an overseer board member for the International Business School of Brandeis University; a member of the Board of Governors of Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management in Arizona; chairman of the Advisory Board for the Churchill Archives Center, Churchill College, Cambridge; and a Patron of the American Australian Association. Mr. Daft has served as a Director of the Company since 2003 and is a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. | 