Donald Keough

Donald Keough

Donald R. Keough (born 1927) is Chairman of the Board of Allen & Company Incorporated,[1][2] a New York investment-banking firm. He was elected to that position in April 1993.

Keough retired as president, chief operating officer and a director of The Coca-Cola Company in April 1993, positions he held since early 1981. His tenure with the company dates back to 1950. In addition, from 1986 to 1993 he served as chairman of the Board of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., the world’s largest bottling system. From 1985 to 1989 he also served as chairman of Columbia Pictures, Inc., before it was sold to Sony, Inc.

Keough currently serves on the Boards of IAC/InterActiveCorp, Yankee Global Enterprises LLC, Berkshire Hathaway and The Coca-Cola Company, to which he was elected in February 2004. In addition, he has served for many years as a member of the Boards of McDonald’s Corporation, The Washington Post Company, H. J. Heinz Company, Convera Corporation, and The Home Depot.

He is chairman emeritus of the Board of Trustees and a Life Trustee of the University of Notre Dame. He is a trustee of several other educational, charitable and civic organizations.

Keough has received various honors in his career, including honorary doctorates from the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater Creighton University, Emory University, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and Clark University. The University of Notre Dame’s highest honor, the Laetare Medal, was presented to Keough in May 1993, and he was Irish America magazine's first Irish-American of the Year, also in 1993.[3] Keough was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2002 and was inducted into the Junior Achievement National Business Hall of Fame in 2003. In November 2010, he was the first honoree inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame[4].

References

  1. ^ Coca-Cola - Our Company - Leadership - Donald R. Keough
  2. ^ Donald Keough Profile - Forbes.com
  3. ^ "The Corporate Chieftan". Irish America magazine. January 2011. pp. 28–38. http://media.irishcentral.com/documents/The_Corporate_Chieftain.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-01. 
  4. ^ O'Dowd, Niall; Whelan, Kevin. "The Corporate Chieftain", Irish America magazine, November 29, 2010. Accessed March 22, 2011. "The rise of the Keough family from the prairies to the pinnacle of Wall Street is the story of Irish America in microcosm."

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Cynthia Mitchell (1993-04-18). "Coca-Cola 's real thing packs it in - Front man, ambassador Donald Keough retires". Dallas Morning News. p. 1H. 

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Preceded by:
Roberto Goizueta
President of The Coca-Cola Company 1981-1993 Succeeded by:
Douglas Ivester and John Hunter



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