DON KEOUGH’S CAREER

1950: Hired as assistant advertising manager at Paxton and Gallagher, owners of ButterNut Coffee, in Omaha, Neb. 1955: Paxton and Gallagher acquired by Swanson Foods. The coffee unit becomes known as Butter-Nut Foods. Keough goes on to hold a variety of jobs in advertising and sales. 1961: Duncan Coffee buys ButterNut. Keough moves to Houston as vice president and director of marketing. 1964: Coca-Cola acquires Duncan. 1967: Coke forms Foods Division. Keough is vice president and director of marketing. 1971: Becomes head of CocaCola Foods. 1973: Keough moves to Atlanta to become executive vice president, Coca-Cola USA. 1974: Named president of CocaCola USA. 1976: Named president of Americas group. 1979: Named senior executive vice president of Coca-Cola; later that year, named vice chairman. 1981: Named president and chief operating officer, Coca-Cola; also elected to board of directors. 1982: Serves as chairman of Columbia Pictures, Inc., until 1989. 1986: Becomes chairman of Coca-Cola Enterprises and serves in that role until 1993. 1993: Retires from Coke, including from the board; continues as adviser to Chairman and CEO Roberto Goizueta. Helped launch what became the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. 2000: Named adviser to Coke’s then chairman and CEO Doug Daft. 2004: Re-elected to board of directors. Chairman of search committee that brought in Neville Isdell to become Coke’s chief executive. 2008: Writes the book“The Ten Commandments for Business Failure.” 2013: Retired from Coke’s board. He and wife Marilyn Keough gave $30 million to the University of Notre Dame for an international institutes building.