Indra Nooyi

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi ( born October 28, 1955 in Madras ( Chennai), India) is an American business manager and, since October 2006, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo.

Life

Indra Nooyi studied at Madras Christian College and the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. There she received the Master of Business Administration Finance and Marketing. After her studies she worked for two years as a product manager at Johnson & Johnson and textile company Mettur Beardsell. Then she went to the Yale School of Management, where she graduated with a Master of Public and Private Management. Starting in 1980, Indra Nooyi worked for six years at the Boston Consulting Group. In 1986, she joined at Motorola, where she was vice president and director of corporate strategy and planning. In 1990, she was at Asea Brown Boveri senior vice president of strategy and strategic marketing. In 1994, she joined the company a Pepsi as Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning. Two years later, she was senior vice president of corporate strategy and development. From February 2000, Indra Nooyi was Senior Vice President of Pepsi and in May 2001, she was Chief Financial Officer. On October 1, 2006, she was CEO of the company and thus the fifth CEO in the history of PepsiCo. Today she lives with her ​​husband and two daughters in Greenwich (Connecticut).

2007 she was awarded the Padma Bhushan Indian civilian award bestowed and she was chosen by Forbes magazine ranked 5 in the years 2008 and 2009, # 3 on the list of 100 most powerful women in the world.