Sol Daurella

Sol Daurella was born in 1966 in Barcelona,^[1] into a family with a long business tradition. She is the granddaughter of the Spanish importer of salted cod Santiago Daurella Rull and daughter of the entrepreneur José Daurella Franco.^[2]

The Daurella family has been part of the Coca-Cola global system since 1951, when they obtained the licence to bottle and distribute the Coca-Cola beverage in Spain, creating the first Spanish bottler.^[3]

Sol Daurella was educated in an English school in Montreux, Switzerland, and obtained her degree in business administration from University of Barcelona,^[4] followed by MBA from ESADE, and a master's degree in Finance from the University of Berkeley.^[5][6] She speaks four languages.^{[citation needed]}

Daurella She began her professional career at Mac Group, a strategic consultancy firm, before joining the Coca-Cola System in 1992.^[5]

Coca-Cola European Partners was created in May 2016, after the merger of Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, Coca-Cola Enterprises, and the German bottler. Before her appointment as Chairman of Coca-Cola European Partners, she had been CEO at Coca-Cola Iberian Partners.^{[citation needed]} Daurella is chair of UK-based Coca-Cola European Partners,^[7] a consumer goods company that produces and distributes an extensive range of nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in thirteen European countries including Spain, Portugal, Andorra, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.^[8]

Daurella is also a director of other Coca-Cola bottlers such as Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company, partially owned by TCCC, which operates in 12 countries in Western and Northern Africa.^[4]

She is also co-chair of Grupo Cacaolat, a dairy company which produces cocoa milkshakes and is based in Barcelona, Spain,^[4] as well as CEO and chair of Cobega.^{[citation needed]}

Daurella has contributed her experience as a board member to a number of companies in the banking, construction, and energy sectors, as well as to other consumer goods companies.^{[citation needed]}

Between 2010 and 2014, she was on the boards of Banco Sabadell, Acciona and Ebro Foods.^[4] In November 2014, she became been a board member of Banco Santander, ranked Eurozone's largest bank by market value.^[9]

She became honorary consul for Iceland^[4] and has been involved with nonprofit organisations dedicated to cancer research, health and well-being, and education.^{[citation needed]}

Daurella was married to Joan Albiol, a former head of Puig's beauty division, with whom she has two sons.^[10][11] She later married business executive Carles Vilarrubi [ca] with whom she has a daughter.^[11][12]