Helene D. Gayle

Helene D. Gayle

Board Member at Coca-Cola
Company Tenure: 11 years
Education:
Columbia University (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania (M.D.)
Biography:

Helene D. Gayle currently serves as a Director at The Coca-Cola Company, with a tenure of 11 years. She serves on the Board of Directors at Palo Alto Networks and Organon & Co., and previously with GoHealth and Colgate-Palmolive.

She has been involved in various roles within the CDC and served as a Member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowship in 2009. Her non-profit affiliations include serving as President of Spelman College, a board member at Resilient Cities Catalyst, the New America Foundation, a member of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board, a Trustee at the Rockfeller Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Gayle previously served as the President and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, CEO of McKinsey Initiative, President and CEO of CARE, Director of HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health Programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Barnard College, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Helene D. Gayle has contributed $250 to the Republican party and $118,274 to the Democrat party.

Profile Details

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Republican Support
Democratic Support
$250 $118,274

Affiliated Companies

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Key Statements

“We've seen, particularly most immediately after the murder of George Floyd, companies pledging to really think about their own houses. How are they thinking about diversity, equity and inclusion? How are they looking at getting more people on the pathway to being in the C-Suite or getting more board members of color as part of their board and looking at some of these issues of how internally are people feeling included within the environment of the corporation? And I think that was a great start. But there's also a lot more that companies can do beyond kind of the culture within the organization. They can do—look at how they spend their dollars. There's been a big movement around supplier diversity for decades, but there hasn't been any real accountability around. How do you spend your dollars in ways that can help to provide greater economic opportunity?”

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“Yeah, I mean I think if we see racial equity as part of the ESG lens and companies are being held responsible for their ESG goals and actually meeting targets, I think we will see the same sort of movement that we have seen around ESG.”

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