The Coca-Cola Company announced that Helene Gayle has retired from her duties as a director. Gayle had been a director of the company since 2013. She served as a member and former chair of the talent and compensation committee, and she was a member of the corporate governance and sustainability committee.

Most recently, Gayle served as President of Spelman College in Atlanta. She began the position in July 2022 and recently stepped down. Gayle also served as CEO, The Chicago Community Trust, from October 2017 to June 2022.

Gayle was CEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, from July 2015 to September 2017. She held the positions of President and CEO of CARE USA, from 2006 to 2015. From 2001 to 2006, she served as program director in the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gayle started her career in public health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1984, holding various positions, ultimately becoming the director of the CDC?s National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention in 1995.