Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi was bornon 28 October 1955 in Chennai, American, is CEO of Pepsico. Indra Nooyi is an Indian-born American business executive currently serving as the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, one of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world. Nooyi is one of the top female executives in the United States and is consistently ranked among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. She has been instrumental in the diversification and expansion of PepsiCo’s brands which had primarily been more focused on soft drinks. Known to be a highly innovative, energetic, and hard working person, Nooyi has risen to become one of the top most female executives in the world from a modest beginning. Born into a middle-class family in Chennai, Nooyi has always been someone who refused to adhere to the conservative norms of the society. A brilliant student, she completed her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and worked with Johnson & Johnson. Then she proceeded to the Yale School of Management to further her education and worked with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri. She gained much prominence as a strategist and received job offers from several prestigious companies including General Electric and PepsiCo. She chose to join PepsiCo in 1994 and quickly rose up the ranks to be named its CEO in 2006
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In 2006, PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund retired and Nooyi became the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's 44-year history
In recognition of her impressive work with the company, Nooyi was promoted to chief financial officer in 2000 and the president in 2001
Nooyi played a pivotal part in getting these restaurants divested in 1997
Indra Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 as senior vice president of corporate strategy and development
She proved to be a great success at this job and by the mid-1990s, she was aggressively being courted by corporate headhunters and offered lucrative positions in some of the world’s largest companies
She quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to vice president and director of corporate strategy and planning in 1988
In 1986, she moved to Motorola as a senior executive in the automotive division development team
She thoroughly enjoyed her learning experience at Yale and graduated in 1980
She moved to the United States to join Yale School of Management in 1978 and pursued a master's degree in Public and Private Management
A brilliant student, she earned a seat in one of India’s premier institutions, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, from where she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA), in 1976
She studied physics, chemistry and mathematics from Madras Christian College from where she graduated in 1974
She was born as Indra Krishnamurthy on 28 October 1955, in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India, into a conservative middle-class family
