Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi is currently serving as the Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, which is one of the
world’s largest food and beverage companies based in the US. Indian by birth, Nooyi is one of
the most successful top female executives in the United States and is consistently ranked among
the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women. She is widely acknowledged as the chief architect of
PepsiCo’s unprecedented growth and reach.
Nooyi has taken PepsiCo’s fortunes to a new height and made it into a food and drink empire.
She reshaped its brand identity and bought many established brands including Tropicana in 1998
and Quaker Oats in 2001 to merge with it. The latter was one of the biggest food deals in
corporate history and added a huge range of cereals and snack-food products to the PepsiCo
empire.
Indra Nooyi has recently joined Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum that aims to assist
the president in implementing his economic agenda. The sixty-one-year old Nooyi, is the only
Indian-origin executive in the 19-member President’s Strategic and Policy Forum.