About

Able to speak in English, German and Japanese in addition to his native Hungarian, János Miklós Jakab is a talented individual with a ‘huge drive’ and ‘positive attitude’ according to peers. Jakab joined Coca Cola HBC in 2014 as legal director and, as part of the role, leads a team of senior counsels for the strategic counselling of the US beverage company’s Hungarian business, overseeing and coordinating full legal services provided to internal clients. He is also the company’s compliance officer and leader of cross-functional and regional and group projects, a testament to how highly Jakab’s employer’s regard his expertise. Another peer and former colleague says of Jakab that, ‘he was very smart, agile, commercially astute and was able to connect very successfully with internal and external stakeholders alike. Very good project management skills was also evidenced during numerous corporate restructuring projects’. Before Coca Cola HBC, Jakab was managing partner at Island Hill Consulting for almost five years. Between 2001 and 2012, he quickly worked his way up the legal department of British American Tobacco Hungary, landing the director of legal and security affairs position in 2009.