Sarah B. Brown 89B

Global Customer Director, Retired
The Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, Georgia

Brown joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1989. As global customer director Brown led the company’s ongoing partnership and business growth with US-based food service and on-premise customers doing business and expanding internationally. Brown retired after 32 years of service with The Coca-Cola Company.

Brown held a variety of roles at the company in sales and sales management, with a focus on capability building and strategic planning. In 1996, she relocated to the company’s headquarters in Atlanta.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Brown was in medical equipment sales with Johnson & Johnson and Bayer Laboratories in Houston.

She holds a bachelor of science degree in business from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and received an MBA from Emory’s Goizueta Business School in 1989. Brown is a 2022 recipient of the Ellis Island Medals of Honor Award, a member of the Atlanta Rotary Club, and a graduate of Leadership Atlanta's Class of 2023.

She was elected trustee in 2018.