Mike Suco

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Michael Suco (born c. 1968 in Jacksonville) is the president and CEO of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United.

Mike is the youngest of three sons born to José Ramón and Teresa Suco, and the grandson of Manuel Abascal, who fled from Havana during the Cuban Revolution. On the invitation of a friend, they settled in Birmingham, where Abascal began teaching at Miles College. Ramón took a job with Big B Drugs and Teresa attended the University of Montevallo and later completed a doctorate at the University of Alabama. She joined the foreign language faculty of Jacksonville State University before Mike was born.

Suco attended Jacksonville Elementary School and Jacksonville High School, and enrolled at Jacksonville State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He began his career as a Fort Myers, Florida-based sales representative for the E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1991, and promoted to state sales manager in Columbia, South Carolina in 1995. He was hired as a marketing development manager by the Coca-Cola Company in 1996 and assigned to Birmingham, where he reconnected with a college friend, Shelley Arnold. They married in 1998 and raised two children, Michael and Bella.

In 2001 Suco accepted a marketing manager position with Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United. He was promoted to vice president for operational marketing and commercial leadership in 2015. From 2016 to 2021 he served as vice president for the bottler's east region, based in Atlanta, Georgia. In March 2021 he returned to Birmingham as a senior vice president and chief commercial officer. In 2022 he was tapped to succeed John Sherman as president and CEO.

As a member of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce's Hispanic Business Council (HBC), Suco was a co-founder of the Fiesta cultural festival, which was inaugurated in 2001. Suco is also an avid marathoner and triathlete.

References

  • Michaels, Ryan (September 21, 2022) "Meet Mike Suco, Coca-Cola United CEO and Co-Founder of Fiesta Birmingham." The Birmingham Times