Zein Abdalla

Chief Executive Officer,
PepsiCo Europe

Zein Abdalla is chief executive officer of PepsiCo Europe. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

He assumed this role in November 2009, and is responsible for PepsiCo’s food and beverage businesses in Continental Europe as well as the UK and sub-Sahara Africa, which together generated approximately $10 billion in revenues in 2010.

Having joined PepsiCo in 1995, Abdalla has served in a variety of progressively responsible positions, including general manager, Europe beverage business unit; general manager, Tropicana Europe; and Franchise vice president, Pakistan and the Gulf region. In September 2008 he went on to lead the complete portfolio of PepsiCo businesses in Europe.

Before joining PepsiCo, Abdalla worked for Mars, Inc.

Abdalla is based in Geneva.

Education::
  • BSc (Hons.), (Electrical Engineering), Imperial College, London University, London

Affiliations and Appointments::
  • President, Union of European Beverages Associations, UNESDA (representing the non-alcoholic     drinks industry in Europe)
  • Board member, CIAA (Confederation of the food and drink industries of the European Union)

Saad Abdul-Latif

CEO, 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 28-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.

Grace Puma

Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer, PepsiCo

Grace Puma is senior vice president & chief procurement officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Puma joined PepsiCo in November 2010. She is responsible for the company’s Strategic Supply Management’s agenda, including ensuring quality along the supply chain; driving innovation within PepsiCo’s supplier base to accelerate the transformation of the company’s portfolio and advance its Environmental Sustainability goals; facilitating the growth of PepsiCo’s Global Nutrition Group; expanding globally, with increasingly sophisticated support to PepsiCo’s developing markets; and delivering cost savings while effectively managing commodity pricing risk.

Prior joining PepsiCo, Puma worked for United Airlines (UA), where she served as senior vice president, Chief Procurement Officer since 2007. She led the transformation of UA’s procurement organization to a global Strategic Sourcing function with an enterprise-wide scope. Puma and her team delivered significant savings across the value chain, while effectively handling risk management through the jet fuel crises in 2008.

Before joining UA in 2007, she led key areas of Strategic Supply Management globally at Kraft Foods, including raw materials, packaging, indirect materials and services. Puma rose to positions of increasing responsibility at Kraft from 1999 to 2007. She also worked in Strategic Supply Management at Motorola and Gillette.

Puma is based in Somers, N.Y.

Education::
  • Bachelor of Arts, (Business Administration and Economics), Illinois Benedictine University, Lisle, Ill.

Affiliations and Appointments:
  • Board member, Marietta Corporation
  • Board member, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, Ill.
  • Board member, Institute of Supply Managers (2006 to 2009)

A. Salman Amin

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, PepsiCo

A. Salman Amin is executive vice president and chief marketing officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Amin assumed this role in August 2009, and is responsible for driving global marketing strategies and plans for PepsiCo worldwide, with accountability for consumer and shopper marketing, media, insights, and marketing talent development.

Amin joined PepsiCo in 1995, and has served in a variety of positions, including vice president, Marketing, Pepsi-Cola International; senior vice president, Commercial Operations, Frito Lay International; senior vice president, New Platforms, PepsiCo; and chief marketing officer, PepsiCo International. Most recently, he was president, PepsiCo United Kingdom and Ireland, where he was responsible for snack foods (Walkers), breakfast cereals (Quaker), and fruit juices (Tropicana and Copella).

Before joining PepsiCo, Amin spent 10 years at Procter & Gamble, and held a variety of brand management positions working on hair care, paper, and food and beverage businesses in the U.S., Germany, Middle East and Asia.

Mr. Amin is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education::
  • Bachelor of Arts (Civil Engineering), Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
  • Master of Business Administration, Kellogg School, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Affiliations, Appointments and Awards:
  • Board member, Elizabeth Arden Company
  • Honorary Doctorate awardee, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2009)

Rich Beck

Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations, PepsiCo

Rich Beck is senior vice president, Global Supply Chain Operations of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Beck assumed this role in January 2011, and is responsible for leveraging the experience and capabilities of PepsiCo's supply chain organizations around the world, while driving critical initiatives across the company's Food and Beverage businesses. Among other responsibilities, he oversees the relationships between PepsiCo Global Operations and the company's Research & Development, Procurement and Marketing functions to build flexibility and efficiency into PepsiCo's manufacturing processes and product/packaging designs.

Beck joined PepsiCo in 1993, and has served in a variety of positions, including senior vice president, Operations, Frito-Lay North America; executive vice president, PepsiCo Chicago; and most recently as president, North America Functional Beverages, PepsiCo Americas Beverages. In this role, Beck led the Sales, Supply Chain and Operations organizations supporting the Quaker, Tropicana and Gatorade businesses, and was a key player in driving Gatorade's sustainable growth.

Before joining PepsiCo, Beck spent 12 years at General Electric.

Beck is based in Chicago.

Education::
  • Bachelor of Science (Industrial Engineering), University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.
  • Master of Business Administration, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.

Affiliations and Appointments:
  • Board member, American Beverage Association
  • Founding member, Supply Chain 50 Exchange

Neil Campbell

President, Tropicana Beverages North America

Neil Campbell is President of Tropicana Beverages North America, the beverage business that integrates all of PepsiCo's North American juice businesses into one operating unit.

Prior to being named Tropicana president in December 2007, Mr. Campbell had enjoyed an extensive 15-year PepsiCo career. He joined the Walkers marketing function in 1993 and held a variety of roles before moving to the Netherlands as Vice President - Marketing. He assumed leadership of the Walkers Marketing function in 1998, and then added expanded responsibilities to include Tropicana and Quaker in 2003.

In July 2005, Mr. Campbell stepped into the role of General Manager for Walkers and led the business through an incredibly challenging period. He is one of the U.K.'s most accomplished marketers, having co-owned the hugely impactful Gary Lineker advertising campaign, authored Walkers' push into evening snacking and championed Walkers Crisps' groundbreaking entry into healthier snacking and sustainability. Under Mr. Campbell's leadership, Walkers has become one of Britain's biggest grocery brands.

He is a graduate of Cambridge University where he studied law. He also holds a barrister at law qualification from the Middle Temple, which is responsible for the training and regulation of barristers in England and Wales.

Mr. Campbell is based in Chicago, Ill.

Albert P. Carey

Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Americas Beverages

Albert (Al) P. Carey is chief executive officer of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, a unit of PepsiCo. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Carey assumed this role in September 2011 and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of PepsiCo’s Beverage business across North, South and Central America.

Carey joined PepsiCo in 1981, and has served in a variety of positions, including director, Trade Development, Frito-Lay North America (FLNA); vice president, National Sales, FLNA; vice president/general manager, Foodservice, FLNA; division president, FLNA West; chief operating officer, FLNA; senior vice president, Sales, Pepsi-Cola North America (PCNA); senior vice president, Sales and Retailer Strategies, PCNA; chief operating officer, PepsiCo Beverages and Foods; president, PepsiCo Sales; and most recently as president and chief executive officer, FLNA. In this role, Carey was responsible for overseeing all of FLNA - the company’s most profitable operating division and largest North American business.

Before joining PepsiCo, Carey worked at Procter & Gamble.

Carey is based in Somers, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Government and Politics), University of Maryland, College Park, Md.

Affiliations and Appointments:
  • Board of Directors member, Home Depot
  • Corporate Advisors Board member, LaRaza
  • Advisory Council member, Food Industry Leadership program, Portland State University, Portland, Ore.
  • Board of Trustees member, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
  • Dean's Advisory Council member, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College
    Park, Md.

John Compton

Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Americas Foods & Global Snacks Group

John Compton is chief executive officer of PepsiCo Americas Foods & Global Snacks Group. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Compton assumed this role in November 2007, and is responsible for overseeing PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF), which has a food and snack portfolio including Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Foods and all of our PepsiCo's Latin American food businesses including Sabritas and the Gamesa business in Mexico. PAF, comprised of 130,000 associates, reported $22 billion in revenues in 2010 making it the largest sector of PepsiCo’s four business units. In addition, Compton leads both PepsiCo’s Power of One – Americas Council (comprised of the company’s top food and beverage leaders across North, South and Central America) and Global Snacks Group (created to develop, innovate and leverage the company’s global snacks portfolio).

Compton joined PepsiCo in 1983, and has held a variety of positions. He was most recently chief executive officer, PepsiCo North America and, prior, served as president and chief executive officer, Quaker Tropicana Gatorade. He 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, Sales. Compton served on the Board of Directors of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group prior to its merger with PepsiCo in 2010.

Compton is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science, (Finance), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

Affiliations, Appointments and Awards:
  • Board member, First Horizon National Corporation
  • Executive council member, Conservation International (Washington, D.C., global environmental think     tank)
  • Executive sponsor, PepsiCo Ethnic Advisory Boards and the North American Women's Inclusion     Networks
  • Award winner, University of Tennessee, Distinguished Alumni (2011)

Robert Dixon

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, PepsiCo

Robert Dixon is senior vice president and chief information officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Dixon assumed this role in 2007, and is responsible for PepsiCo's Business + Information Solutions (BIS). BIS is the global function that delivers all information technology. He also owns the SAP enterprise business transformation initiative, a top strategic priority for the company. Dixon oversees more than 5,000 associates who support PepsiCo's diverse and complex business units, while fueling performance with business solutions that connect, innovate, transform and sustain PepsiCo's eco-system.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Dixon served as vice president, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world's largest shared services organizations. He founded the company's SAP Global Center of Expertise, which integrated multiple systems into a single SAP platform. He was also a five-year member of P&G's Global Business Council of top executives and diversity advisor to the chief executive officer.

Dixon is based in Plano, Texas.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Affiliations and Awards:
  • Board member, WellPoint, Inc.
  • Member, CIO Strategy Exchange
  • Member, IT Senior Management Forum
  • Member, The Cash CIO Forum
  • Member, IBM Board of Advisors
  • Former member, President's Advisory Board, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Award winner, Distinguished Engineering Alumni, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (2002)

Enderson Guimaraes

President, Global Operations, PepsiCo

Enderson Guimaraes is president, Global Operations of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi Cola –make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Guimaraes assumed this role in October 2011, and is responsible for strategic sourcing management, global operations, business and information solutions and global productivity. He is leading the transformation of PepsiCo’s current operating model to one that functions in a collaborative matrix – a change that will allow the company to globally leverage its innovation, best practices, productivity, global brand architectures and strategic external alliances, while enabling local teams to manage and execute their businesses.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Guimaraes served as executive vice president of Electrolux and chief executive officer of its €4.5 billion major appliances business for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, based in Belgium. In this role, he completed a 1,000-day, 35-country transformation program of its major appliance business -- fundamentally shifting the cost structure, reducing complexity, leveraging scale and establishing common processes. The initiative dramatically simplified the company’s product lines, from 10,000 different models to fewer than 5,000, while improving product quality.

Before this, Guimaraes spent 13 years at Philips Electronics, first as a regional marketing executive in Brazil and ultimately as senior vice president and head of global marketing management and general manager of the VidiWall LED display business. There he led a transformational effort to improve marketing effectiveness across Philips’ €32 billion global business, which included reshaping the brand architecture, advertising and marketing governance across all Philips businesses. Guimaraes also served as chief executive officer of Philips’ Lifestyle Incubator group, an innovation engine which created new businesses and developed them over several years -- from conception to €100 million sales.

Guimaraes also worked for Danone and Johnson & Johnson.

Guimaraes is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering), Aeronautical Institute of Technology,
     São José dos Campos, Brazil
  • Master of Business Administration, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tom Greco

President, Frito-Lay North America

Thomas (Tom) Greco is president, Frito-Lay North America, a unit of PepsiCo. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Greco assumed this role in September 2011 and is responsible for overseeing PepsiCo’s snack and convenient foods business in the U.S. and Canada. Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) is the company’s most profitable operating division and largest North American business.

Greco joined PepsiCo in Canada in 1986, and has served in a variety of positions, including region vice president, Midwest; president, Frito-Lay Canada; senior vice president, Sales, Frito-Lay North America; president, Global Sales, PepsiCo; executive vice president, Sales, North America Beverages; and most recently as executive vice president and chief commercial officer, Pepsi Beverages Company (PBC). In this role, Greco was responsible for leading PBC’s retail selling efforts across the U.S. and Canada.

Before joining PepsiCo, Greco worked at Procter & Gamble.

Greco is based in Plano, Texas.

Education:
  • Honors Bachelor of Commerce, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
  • Master of Business Administration, Richard Ivey School of Business, London, Ontario

Affiliations, Appointments, Awards:
  • Co-chair, Food Marketing Institute's (FMI) Associate Member Advisor Board
  • Executive sponsor, PepsiCo Asian Network (PepsiCo's employee diversity network that aims to
    making PepsiCo the employer of choice for Asian Americans, using their skills and talent to
    grow the company)
  • Award winner, “William J. Grize Diversity Hall of Fame Award – Network of Executive Women,” (2011)

Julie Hamp

Senior Vice President, Consumer Relations & Chief Communications Officer, PepsiCo

Julie Hamp is senior vice president, consumer relations and chief communications officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales each. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Hamp assumed this role in December 2007, and is responsible for PepsiCo's global external and internal communications - including corporate communications, media relations, consumer affairs, marketing communications and digital media. She also leads communications strategies advancing PepsiCo's unique commitment to sustainable growth, called Performance with Purpose.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Hamp was vice president, Communications for General Motors' (GM) European region. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, she was responsible for media relations, internal communications, brand publicity and corporate communications, partnering with GM leaders in 27 countries. Hamp’s previous positions within GM included general director, Communications for Latin America, Africa and the Middle East; general director for GM's brands in North America; and vice president, Communications, Saturn. During her tenure at GM, she covered communications in all areas of the business, including engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing communications.

Hamp is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Communications), Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Mich.
  • Post-graduate (Executive Development Program), Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass.

Affiliations and Appointments:
  • Board of Directors member, The Ad Council
  • Accredited Member, Public Relations Society of America
  • Member, Arthur W. Page Society

Hugh F. Johnston

Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo

Hugh F. Johnston is chief financial officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Johnston assumed this role in March 2010, and is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership; ensuring PepsiCo's capital structure, financial systems and controls; and forecasting models that will support the company's growth and expansion. As a member of the executive leadership team, Johnston builds financial infrastructure, oversees risk management, and upholds PepsiCo's finance and accounting policies and procedures.

Johnston joined PepsiCo in 1987, and has served in a variety of positions, including CFO, Beverages and Foods, PepsiCo; senior vice president, Mergers and Acquisitions, PepsiCo; president, Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages; and most recently executive vice president, Global Operations, PepsiCo. In this role, Johnston ran the post-merger integration efforts for PepsiCo's bottler transactions with Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas, and was responsible for overseeing PepsiCo's Global Procurement Business Information Systems functions, as well as the company's Worldwide Concentrate Operations.

Johnston is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts (Finance), Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
  • Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago

Affiliations, Appointments:
  • Executive sponsor, PepsiCo EQUAL (PepsiCo's employee diversity network that provides awareness,
    education, resources and support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community, and its
    allies)

Dr. Mehmood Khan

Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo
Chief Executive Officer, Global Nutrition Group

Mehmood Khan, M.D., is chief scientific officer, PepsiCo and chief executive officer, Global Nutrition Group. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

As chief scientific officer, Dr. Khan leads company-wide research and development (R&D); recruits highly regarded clinical scientists, global health leaders and medical experts; launches research projects with leading universities; and opens advanced R&D facilities.

As CEO, Global Nutrition Group (GNG), Dr. Khan leads a global team of experts in nutrition, medicine, research, science, marketing/branding, ingredient sourcing and product innovation. He directs PepsiCo’s enterprise planning, portfolio development and execution of new technology to grow the company’s nutrition-focused brands in four areas: grains (Quaker), fruits (Tropicana), vegetables (Sabra) and dairy (Wimm-Bill-Dann). With the creation of the GNG, PepsiCo is one of only two food and beverage companies worldwide with an operation dedicated to health and wellness.

This crossover role is unique in the global food and beverage industry, permitting a single point of linkage between R&D and core businesses and brands within the context of health & wellness.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Dr. Khan was president, Takeda Global Research & Development Center, overseeing Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company’s worldwide R&D efforts. Previously, Dr. Khan was as a faculty member at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., serving as director of the Diabetes, Endocrine and Nutritional Trials Unit in the endocrinology division. He also spent nine years leading programs in diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition for the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Dr. Khan is based in Chicago.

Affiliations and Appointments:
  • Member, Board of Governors, New York Academy of Science
  • Former committee member, American Diabetes Association
  • Former committee member, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation
  • Former committee member, National Institutes of Health

Massimo d'Amore

President, PepsiCo Global Beverages Group

Massimo d’Amore is president of PepsiCo’s Global Beverages Group. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

d’Amore assumed this role in June 2011. He is responsible for managing PepsiCo’s global beverage strategy and brands, as well as leading global beverage breakthrough Innovation and Research & Development. d’Amore oversees the company’s North American Gatorade and Tropicana businesses, and its Latin America Beverages business. He also has accountability for PepsiCo’s worldwide sports nutrition business.

d’Amore joined PepsiCo in 1995, and has served in a variety of positions, including executive vice president, Commercial, PepsiCo International; president, Latin America Region; senior vice president, Corporate Strategy & Development; senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Pepsi-Cola International; business unit general manager, Turkey/Central Asia; and most recently as chief executive officer, PepsiCo Beverages Americas. In this role, d’Amore led the company’s Beverage portfolio, including Pepsi-Cola North America, Gatorade, Tropicana, PepsiCo's Latin American Beverages businesses and PepsiCo's North American Food Service division.

Before joining PepsiCo, d’Amore worked at Procter & Gamble. He is fluent in Italian and French, and has a working command of Spanish and German.

d’Amore is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Engineering), Swiss Polytechnic Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Master of Science (Materials Science), Swiss Polytechnic Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Post-graduate (Developing Countries), Swiss Polytechnic Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliations, Appointments:
  • Board of Directors and Steering Committee member, Groupe d'Ouchy
  • Executive sponsor, PepsiCo EnAble (PepsiCo’s employee diversity network that cultivates an
    environment of inclusion for People with Different Abilities and their stakeholders)
  • Burke Award winner, New York State Assembly (for sponsorship of EnAble) (2009)
  • Award winner, “Business Leader of the Year,” National Italian American Foundation (2009)

Tim Minges

Chairman, PepsiCo Greater China Region

Tim Minges is chairman, PepsiCo Greater China Region. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Minges assumed this role in January 2010 and is responsible for business operations for the entire PepsiCo portfolio throughout greater China.

Minges is a 28-year PepsiCo veteran who joined PepsiCo in 1983 in the finance department of Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) and was promoted to a series of roles in finance, sales and general management positions throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Minges moved to Asia in 1994 as general manager of Frito-Lay Thailand and since then has taken on a series of increasingly complex roles including area vice president, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN); managing director, China; president, Frito-Lay International – Asia-Pacific; and most recently as region president, Asia Pacific, a role that managed the PepsiCo portfolio throughout 13 Asian countries.

Before joining PepsiCo, Minges worked in accounting roles at Great Western Sugar and Alexander Grant.

Minges is based in Shanghai.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Accounting), Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Luis Montoya

President, Latin America Beverages, PepsiCo

Luis Montoya is president, Latin America Beverages of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Montoya assumed this role in 2007, and is responsible for PepsiCo's beverage business and all related disciplines in Latin America. He is accountable for the division's strategic direction and financial performance.

Montoya began his PepsiCo career in 1991 as a market manager for Peru and Ecuador, and has held several positions since, including general manager, Central America; franchise vice president, Mexico (where he also assumed responsibility for Central America and the Caribbean); and most recently business unit general manager, Northern Latin American Beverages (Nola). In 2010, Montoya also received the Steve Reinemund Leadership Legacy Award, the highest recognition within PepsiCo, for his exemplary leadership and commitment to diversity and inclusion, while moving the business forward.

Before joining PepsiCo, Montoya worked for Proctor & Gamble.

Montoya is based in Lima, Peru.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts (Industrial Engineering), Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru
  • Master of Business Administration, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.

Affiliations, Appointments:
  • Board member, Pepsi Cola Venezuela joint venture
  • Board member, PepsiCo Executive Committee
  • Board member, Central America Bottling Corp

Indra K. Nooyi

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo

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 22 different product lines that each generate more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s main businesses – Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that bring joy to consumers in more than 200 countries. With approximately $60 billion in revenue, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Mrs. Nooyi is the chief architect of PepsiCo's multi-year growth strategy, Performance with Purpose, which is focused on delivering sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet. Performance with Purpose encompasses PepsiCo's commitment to continue to build a portfolio of enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages, find innovative ways to reduce the use of energy, water and packaging and provide a great workplace for our employees. 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 its 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, the merger with PepsiCo's anchor bottlers, and the acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann, the largest international acquisition in PepsiCo's history.

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 U.S.-China Business Council, U.S.-India Business Council, The Consumer Goods Forum, Catalyst, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Peterson Institute for International Economics and Tsinghua University. She is also a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, Successor Fellow of Yale Corporation and was appointed to the U.S.-India CEO Forum by the Obama Administration.

She holds a B.S. from Madras Christian College, an M.B.A. 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.

Pedro Padierna

President, PepsiCo Mexico

Pedro Padierna is president of PepsiCo Mexico. PepsiCo owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Padierna assumed this role in August 2011, and is responsible for PepsiCo Mexico’s Foods (Sabritas, Gamesa-Quaker, Sonric’s) businesses. He is also the company’s lead contact with the country’s government and other external stakeholders, and oversees PepsiCo’s global Potato Center of Excellence. Padierna also chairs the Mexico Council, created after his current role appointment, which is formed by leaders of the company’s Foods and Beverages businesses.

Padierna began his PepsiCo career in 1987 at Sabritas as vice president, Marketing and Research & Development, and has held several positions since, including vice president, Commercial, Mexico; vice president, National Sales; president, Sabritas/CariCam, PepsiCo Americas Foods; and most recently president, PepsiCo Foods Mexico, Central America & Caribbean. In his years of service with the company, Padierna has served as a PepsiCo ambassador in Mexico, developing strong relationships with key stakeholders, including government, customers, media and nongovernmental organizations. He is also the president and founder of the Sabritas Foundation.

Before joining PepsiCo, Padierna worked for the Mexican Ministry of Tourism, Banamex (Citibank Mexico) and Proctor & Gamble.

Padierna is based in Mexico City.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts (Communications), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
  • Master of Business Administration (Marketing and Finance), Tulane University, New Orleans

Affiliations, Appointments, Awards:
  • Fulbright Scholarship grantee
  • President, Executive Council of Global Enterprises
  • Board of Trustees president, Mexican Advertising Council
  • Founding chapter member, International Advertising Association

Pamela Culpepper

Senior Vice President, Global Diversity and Inclusion Officer, PepsiCo

Pamela Culpepper is senior vice president, Global Diversity and Inclusion officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Culpepper, who assumed this role in January 2011, provides leadership in guiding PepsiCo's global Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) strategy to bring together diverse strengths, backgrounds and perspectives to achieve the company's strategic business imperatives, advance its Performance with Purpose goals and drive innovation. Building on PepsiCo's leadership in D&I, she helps PepsiCo ensure that D&I is ingrained in PepsiCo, and expands pathways for developing global, multicultural thinkers, doers and innovators.

Culpepper joined PepsiCo in 2000 and most recently served as vice president, Human Resources for Quaker Foods and Snacks. She has held several other positions, including vice president, Human Resources, PepsiCo Americas Beverages Supply Chain; vice president, Talent Management and Diversity, Quaker, Tropicana and Gatorade (QTG); director, Organization Capability and Inclusion, QTG; and director, Human Resources, National Sales for Frito-Lay North America.

Before joining PepsiCo, Culpepper worked for McKessonHBOC, Inc., Clorox and Wells Fargo.

Culpepper is based in Chicago.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
  • Master of Organizational Change, California State University, Hayward

Affiliations and Appointments:
  • Advisory board member, National Black MBA Association

Jose Luis Prado

President, Quaker Foods and Snacks North America, PepsiCo

Jose Luis Prado is president, Quaker Foods and Snacks North America of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Prado assumed this role in January 2011, and is responsible for the continued growth of Quaker-branded products globally. He also leads PepsiCo's global Baking Center of Excellence, which develops and supports baked projects companywide.

Prado joined PepsiCo in 1984 at Sabritas, and has served in a variety of positions, including president, Frito-Lay Snacks Caribbean; president, PepsiCo Snacks Argentina/Uruguay; area vice president, Frito-Lay International (FLI); and most recently as president, Gamesa-Quaker Mexico. In this role, Prado oversaw over $1 billion in sales and 15,000 employees. In addition, he led the integration of Quaker into FLI in Latin America as a result of PepsiCo's merger with the Quaker Oats Company. Prado also launched "Vive Saludable," a program that promotes healthy lifestyles for consumers and employees, in Mexico and throughout Latin America.

Before joining PepsiCo, Prado worked for Grupo Desc in Mexico, a subsidiary of Monsanto.

Prado is based in Chicago.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering), National Polytechnical Institute, Mexico City
  • Master of Science (Information Systems), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
  • Master of Business Administration, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico

Affiliations, Appointments, Awards:
  • Board member, Grupo Alen
  • Award recipient, PepsiCo Donald M. Kendall Award
  • Award recipient, PepsiCo Chairman's Award

Maura Abeln Smith

Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, PepsiCo

Maura Abeln Smith is executive vice president, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Smith assumed this role in May 2011, and is responsible for PepsiCo's worldwide legal affairs, as well as providing counsel to the chairman and chief executive officer and its Board of Directors. She also oversees the company's global compliance function. As head of Government Affairs, Smith assures that the company's interests are well represented in legislative, regulatory and political matters around the world, and aligned are with its Performance with Purpose platform.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Smith served as senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and global government relations of International Paper, the world's largest paper and forest products company. She was responsible for the $25 billion company's worldwide legal department and global government relations function, as well as ethics, compliance and corporate security -- heading a team of more than 150 lawyers and other professionals. In addition to providing counsel to the chief executive officer and board of directors, and helping shape company strategy, Smith worked on a variety of legal issues, including acquisitions and joint ventures.

Smith also served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Owens Corning, a global building materials company. In addition, she was chief restructuring officer and a member of the Owens Corning Board of Directors from 2000 to 2003. Prior to that, she was vice president and general counsel at General Electric in the Plastics Division. In her nearly 30 years of experience at global corporations and leading law firms, she was a partner at Baker & McKenzie and an associate at Steel Hector & Davis, now part of Squire Sanders.

Smith is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts (Economics), Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  • Master of Philosophy (Economics), Oxford University, Oxford, England
  • Juris Doctor (John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics), University of Miami School of Law,
    Coral Gables, Fla.

Affiliations, Appointments, Awards:
  • Rhodes Scholarship recipient, Oxford University
  • Commissioner, Tennessee Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission (2009 to present)
  • Member, Association of General Counsel
  • Member, National Center for State Courts, General Counsel's Committee
  • Former Trustee, Vassar College

Cynthia M. Trudell

Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Chief HR Officer, PepsiCo

Cynthia M. Trudell is executive vice president, Human Resources and chief HR officer of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Trudell assumed this role in February 2007, and is responsible for PepsiCo's global Human Resources function. She oversees the company’s human capital management strategy, partnering with PepsiCo’s businesses around the world to develop the talent and leadership needed to foster innovation and drive sustainable growth. A key area of focus is harnessing PepsiCo’s capabilities and knowledge globally, while ensuring strong local teams who understand and meet the needs of the communities the company serves.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Trudell served as president of Sea Ray Group from 2001 to 2005. She also previously worked for General Motors (GM), serving as a vice president, and chairman and president of Saturn Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of GM. Also at GM, Trudell held a variety of engineering and manufacturing supervisory roles including plant manager at the Wilmington Assembly Center in Delaware. Trudell was also president of IBC Vehicles, a joint venture between GM and Isuzu, in Luton, England. She began her career with the Ford Motor Co., as a chemical process engineer. Trudell also served on the PepsiCo Board of Directors from 2000 to 2007 (when she resigned to accept her current position); the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Board from 2005 to 2007; and the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group Board from 2008 to 2010 (prior to its merger with PepsiCo).

Trudell is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
  • Doctorate (Physical Chemistry), University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
  • Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
  • Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
  • Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
  • Honorary Doctor of Science degree, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Affiliations:
  • Executive sponsor, PepsiCo Women of Color (PepsiCo's employee diversity network that focuses on     enabling and supporting the company's business agenda to become the employer of choice for the     women of color worldwide)

Olivier Weber

President, South America, Caribbean and Central America Foods, PepsiCo

Olivier Weber is president of South America, Caribbean and Central America Foods, PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world, with net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Weber was named president of South America Foods in December 2007. This includes businesses in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela, among other key markets. In August 2011, he gained oversight of Central America and Caribbean, being responsible for PepsiCo's businesses in Guatemala, Panama, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, among others. Weber is accountable for the division's strategic direction and financial performance for the region, which includes salty snacks, cookies and crackers, and other foods businesses - encompassing approximately 30,000 associates, 37 plants and 211 distribution centers.

Weber joined PepsiCo in 1994 as director, Marketing for Gamesa, and has served in a variety of positions, including general manager position in Brazil & South Cone for Foods and Beverages; general manager, PepsiCo Venezuela; general manager, Frito-Lay, Dominican Republic and until lately president for the South America Foods division.

Before joining PepsiCo, Weber worked for Nestle in Switzerland and Chile.

Weber is based in Miami.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Economics (specialization in Business Administration), Fribourg University, Fribourg     Switzerland
  • Fluent in French, German, English, Spanish and Portuguese

Affiliations, Appointments, Awards:
  • Member, World Economic Forum’s Consumer Industry Council
  • Award winner, "PepsiCo Donald M. Kendall Award" (honoring PepsiCo International’s top performing     teams) (2001)
  • PepsiCo Reputation Ambassador

Sarah Robb O'Hagan

Gatorade President North America and Global Chief Marketing Officer, Sports Nutrition

Sarah Robb O’Hagan is Gatorade president North America and global chief marketing officer, Sports Nutrition of PepsiCo, which owns the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

Robb O'Hagan assumed this role in January 2011, and is responsible for the North American Gatorade business and the global brand management of Sport Nutrition. In this new role, O'Hagan will assume responsibility for the marketing and operations of the entire Gatorade business in North America and will lead the development of sports nutrition on a global scale, including the launch of Gatorade's G Series in several markets in 2011.

Robb O'Hagan joined PepsiCo in June 2008 as chief marketing officer, Gatorade, where she oversaw the business' strategic direction, product innovation, and consumer, shopper and sports marketing communications. In this role, Robb O'Hagan led Gatorade's transformation from sports drink company to sports performance innovator, which included the launch of the brand's G Series - a line of products that delivers fuel, fluid and nutrients to athletes before, during and after physical activity.

Before joining PepsiCo, Robb O'Hagan worked for Nike, Atari Interactive, Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand.

Robb O'Hagan is based in Chicago.

Education:
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Diploma in Direct Marketing, New Zealand Direct Marketing Association, Auckland, New Zealand

Affiliations, Appointments, Awards:
  • Award winner, "Top 40 Under 40," Sports Business Journal (2009); the Sporting Goods Association     (2010); and Crain's Chicago Business (2010)
  • Award winner, "Most Powerful Women in Sports," Forbes Magazine (2009)
  • Award winner, "Women to Watch," Advertising Age (2010)
  • Award winner, "Grand Prix, Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival - Gatorade REPLAY"     (2010)
  • Award winner, "GRANDY, Earned Media, ANDY Awards - Gatorade REPLAY" (2010)
  • Co-founder and board member, Perky Sam Trust, New Zealand
  • Member, "World Class New Zealand Network," a division of KEA