Indra K Nooyi

Indra K. Nooyi is chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo.

Prior to becoming CEO, Ms 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, Ms Nooyi was senior vice president, corporate strategy and development, from 1996 until 2000, and as PepsiCo’s senior vice president, strategic planning from 1994 until 1996.

Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, Ms Nooyi spent four years as senior vice president of strategy and strategic marketing for Asea Brown Boveri, a Zurich-based industrial company.

Between 1986 and 1990, Ms 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 chemical producers. Ms 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, Ms Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of the US–China Business Council, the US–India Business Council, the Consumer Goods Forum, Catalyst, the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts and Tsinghua University. She is also a member of the foundation board of the World Economic Forum, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was appointed to the US–India CEO Forum by the Obama administration.

She holds a BS from Madras Christian College, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a master of public and private management from Yale.