Company Leadership

Indra K. Nooyi

Chairman and CEO

Biography

Indra Nooyi is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, which has the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 18 different product lines that each generate more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade – make hundreds of nourishing foods and beverages that bring joy to consumers in over 200 countries. With more than $43 billion in 2008 revenues, PepsiCo employs 198,000 people worldwide.

Mrs. Nooyi is the chief architect of PepsiCo's multi-year growth strategy, Performance with Purpose, which is focused on balancing strong financial returns with giving back to communities worldwide. Performance with Purpose is premised on offering a broad array of choices for healthy, convenient and fun nourishment, reducing environmental impact, and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture. In keeping with this growth strategy, PepsiCo is proud to be listed on the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index and Dow Jones World Sustainability Index. 

Mrs. Nooyi was named President and CEO on October 1, 2006 and assumed the role of Chairman on May 2, 2007. She has directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade and led PepsiCo's restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants into the successful YUM! Brands, Inc., the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats that brought the vital Quaker and Gatorade businesses to PepsiCo. 

Prior to becoming CEO, Mrs. Nooyi served as President and Chief Financial Officer beginning in 2001, when she was also named to PepsiCo's Board of Directors. In this position, she was responsible for PepsiCo's corporate functions, including finance, strategy, business process optimization, corporate platforms and innovation, procurement, investor relations and information technology.

Between February 2000 and April 2001, Mrs. Nooyi was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo. Between 1996 and 1999, Mrs. Nooyi was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development.

Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, Mrs. Nooyi spent four years as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Strategic Marketing for Asea Brown Boveri, a Zurich-based industrials company. She was part of the top management team responsible for the company's U.S. business as well as its worldwide industrial businesses, representing about $10 billion of ABB's $30 billion in global sales.

Between 1986 and 1990, Mrs. Nooyi worked for Motorola, where she was Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning, having joined the company as the business development executive for its automotive and industrial electronic group. Prior to Motorola, she spent six years directing international corporate strategy projects at The Boston Consulting Group. Her clients ranged from textiles and consumer goods companies to retailers and specialty chemicals producers. Mrs. Nooyi began her career in India, where she held product manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and at Mettur Beardsell, Ltd., a textile firm.

In addition to being a member of the PepsiCo Board of Directors, Mrs. Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of The Consumer Goods Forum, Catalyst and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is a Successor Fellow of Yale Corporation and she currently serves as Chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council.

She holds a BS from Madras Christian College, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a Master of Public and Private Management from Yale University. Mrs. Nooyi is married and has two daughters.

Speeches and Panel Discussions

Video:

World Business Summit on Climate Change  05.24.09 (Video)
Economic Club of Washington, D.C.  05.12.2009 (Video) (PDF)
Asia Society Discussion 04.14.09 (Video)
The Milken Institute Global Conference 04.27.09 (Video)

Speech Transcripts

The World Food Prize 10.15.09 (Video)
The Important Dinner for Women 09.23.09 (PDF)
Committee of 100 Asian American Achievement Award 04.30.09 (PDF)

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Massimo F. d'Amore

Chief Executive Officer
PepsiCo Americas Beverages

Biography

John C. Compton

Chief Executive Officer
PepsiCo Americas Foods

Biography

John is Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF), which has a food and snack portfolio including Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Foods and PepsiCo's Latin American food businesses. In addition, he has responsibility for PepsiCo's Power of One Retail Sales teams. John has been CEO of PAF since November of 2007.

John was previously Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo North America and, prior, served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Quaker Tropicana Gatorade. John also worked in Frito-Lay for 22 years in various sales, marketing, operations and general management assignments, including Vice Chairman and President of Frito-Lay's North American Salty Snacks Division, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales.

John graduated from and is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Tennessee. He is PepsiCo's Executive Sponsor for the Ethnic Advisory Boards. John was elected to the Pepsi Bottling Group's Board of Directors in March of 2008.

Mr. Compton is based in Purchase, New York.

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Michael D. White

Chief Executive Officer
PepsiCo International and Vice Chairmain, PepsiCo

Biography

Zein Abdalla

Chief Executive Officer
PepsiCo Europe

Zein Abdalla is Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Europe, a unit comprising all PepsiCo food and beverage businesses in continental Europe and the United Kingdom and generating $6.5 billion in annual revenues. He has led the business since September 2008, having previously led PepsiCo's continental Europe operations for three years.

Mr. Abdalla is a 30-year veteran of the consumer goods industry whose responsibilities have spanned Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He joined PepsiCo in 1995 and has since held a variety of senior positions. Prior to assuming responsibility for the combined Europe food and beverage businesses, he served as General Manager for the Europe beverage business unit, General Manager of Tropicana Europe and Franchise Vice President for Pakistan and the Gulf region.

Over that time he has led both new and developed businesses and overseen a number of acquisitions designed to broaden the company's geographic footprint and build its presence in key growth segments such as nuts and seeds and juices.

Previously he worked for Mars Incorporated in engineering and manufacturing roles, as well as in sales, marketing and human resources. He was also General Manager for Mars' Mid-East Division.

Mr. Abdalla serves on the board of the CIAA, the European food and beverage association, and is Vice President of UNESDA, the European beverage association.

A British national, Mr. Abdalla holds a BSc (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London University.

Mr. Abdalla is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Saad Abdul-Latif

Chief Executive Officer
PepsiCo Asia, Middle East, Africa

Saad Abdul-Latif is Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo's Asia, Middle East and Africa Division, comprising all PepsiCo food and beverage businesses in the region and generating nearly $6 billion in annual revenues. He has led the business since September 2008, having previously led for five years PepsiCo's South Asia Middle East Africa business and, earlier, its Middle East Africa unit.

As CEO of the AMEA Division, Mr. Abdul-Latif is responsible for a territory that spans more than 100+ countries and is home to more than half of the world's population. A 27-year PepsiCo veteran, he has held a wide range of international roles in the corporation's food and beverage businesses since joining the company in 1982. Among his roles, he has served as General Manager for PepsiCo beverages in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan, Area Vice President for the Saudi Arabia and Gulf region, Group Vice President for Frito-Lay Middle East and General Manager for the Middle East region.

Mr. Abdul-Latif is an active supporter of education causes. He sits on the board of PlaNet Finance, an organization which fights poverty through the development of microfinance, and is the former chairperson of World Links–Arab Region, which leverages information and communication technology to educate youth in developing countries.

Mr. Abdul-Latif holds an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona and a BA in Public Administration from the American University of Beirut.

Mr. Abdul-Latif is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Eric J. Foss

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Pepsi Bottling Group

Biography

Eric J. Foss is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (PBG). He was named CEO and elected to the PBG Board of Directors in July 2006. He was elevated to Chairman of the Board in October 2008.

Mr. Foss served as PBG's Chief Operating Officer from September 2005 to July 2006. He was named President, PBG North America in 2001 and, prior, served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of PBG North America beginning in 2000. He joined PBG as Senior Vice President, U.S. Sales and Field Marketing in 1999 when the company was spun off from PepsiCo in an Initial Public Offering.

Mr. Foss joined Pepsi-Cola Company in 1982 and held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in the areas of sales, marketing and general management in the field and at headquarters. In 1990, Mr. Foss was named Vice President, Retail Strategy for Pepsi-Cola North America (PCNA). From 1994 to 1996, he served as General Manager of PCNA's Great West Business Unit. In 1996, he was named General Manager of Pepsi-Cola's Central Europe business.

Mr. Foss holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Ball State University.
He serves on the Board of Directors of United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc. and on the Industry Affairs Council of the Grocery Manufacturers of America.

Mr. Foss is based in Somers, New York.

Robert C. Pohlad

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
PepsiAmericas

Biography

Robert C. Pohlad is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiAmericas, Inc. (PAS). He was elected Chairman of the Board in January 2002 and Chief Executive Officer in November 2000.

Mr. Pohlad has spent more than 30 years in the beverage industry. Prior to its merger with Whitman Corporation, he served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the former PepsiAmericas, Inc.

Mr. Pohlad has also served as President of Pohlad Companies, which owned interests in and managed several Pepsi-Cola bottling companies that were later integrated with the former PepsiAmericas. Prior to 1987, Mr. Pohlad was Northwest Area Vice President of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group.

Mr. Pohlad earned a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Arizona State University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of MAIR Holdings, Inc. and the American Beverage Association. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Puget Sound as well as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Mr. Pohlad is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Craig E. Weatherup

Former Chairman and CEO, Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.,
Former CEO, Pepsi-Cola Company and
Former President, PepsiCo, Inc.

Craig Weatherup retired in January 2003 as the founding Chairman and CEO of Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., a post he assumed in November 1998.

Mr. Weatherup began his career in 1974 as Pepsi-Cola Marketing Director for the Far East stationed in Tokyo, Japan. He spent the next eight years in international operations in a variety of positions. In 1982, Mr. Weatherup joined the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group and was named President of the division in 1986. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi-Cola North America in 1990. In 1996, he was named President of PepsiCo, Inc., and, later that year, appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi-Cola Company.

Before joining PepsiCo, Mr. Weatherup worked for General Foods Corporation.

Mr. Weatherup currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Starbucks Corporation, Macy's, Inc. and the Arizona Nature Conservancy, and he is Chairman of the Arizona State University Foundation. Mr. Weatherup holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Arizona State University.