Dr Wamwari Waichungo is the Strategy and Business Planning Director. She first joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2000 as Marketing Manager in the former Northern Africa Division in Nairobi. She subsequently held other positions within the Company, including being Business Development Manager in the East Africa and Island Region, being Strategy and Planning Manager and being Executive Assistant to the Regional Manager.

Wamwari also worked as Strategy and Planning Director for the Nigeria and Equitorial Africa Business Unit, before taking up a two-year assignment as the Executive Assistant to the Africa Group President, based in Windsor in the United Kingdom. She then went on to assume a position as Strategy and Business Planning Director for the North and West Africa Business Unit based in Cairo, Egypt, and moved from there to her current position at Coca-Cola South Africa in December 2008.

Before joining The Coca-Cola Company, Wamwari had worked as a Planning and Research Director at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Kenya, Nairobi, and held various new product development roles at both Campbell Soup Company and ConAgra in the United States. She holds a PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in the United States of America.