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PepsiCo's business strategy and affairs are overseen by our Board of Directors, which is comprised of one executive director and eleven independent outside directors. Only independent outside directors make up our three standing Board Committees, 1) Nominating and Corporate Governance, 2) Audit, and 3) Compensation.
Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Google Inc.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Colgate-Palmolive Company
Consultant, Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University and President & CEO, Duke University Health Systems
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Hunt Oil Company and Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
President & Chief Executive Officer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Former Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo
President & Chief Executive Officer, WETA Public Stations
Former Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Financial Services
Managing Partner, GenNx360 Capital Partners
Chairman of the Board, Novartis AG
Ray L. Hunt, Chair
Shona L. Brown
Victor J. Dzau, MD
Arthur C. Martinez
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Daniel Vasella
Dina Dublon, Chair
Ian M. Cook
Alberto Ibargüen
James J. Schiro
Lloyd G. Trotter
Arthur C. Martinez, Chair
Shona L. Brown
Victor J. Dzau, MD
Ray L. Hunt
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Daniel Vasella
SHONA L. BROWN, 44, is Senior Vice President, Business Operations of Google Inc., a position she has held since 2006. From 2003 to 2006 she served as Vice President, Business Operations of Google Inc., where she led internal business operations and people operations. From October 1995 to August 2003, Ms. Brown was at McKinsey and Company, a management consulting firm, where she had been a partner since December 2000. She is a director of the following non-profit organizations: San Francisco Jazz Organization; The Bridgespan Group; and The Exploritorium. Ms. Brown was elected to PepsiCo's Board in March 2009.
IAN M. COOK, 57, was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2008. He was named Chief Executive Officer and was elected to the board of Colgate Palmolive Company in 2007 and became Chairman of the Board in January 2009. Mr. Cook joined Colgate in the United Kingdom in 1976 and progressed through a series of senior management roles around the world. In 2002, he became Executive Vice President, North America and Europe. In 2004, he became Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for operations in North America, Europe, Central Europe, Asia and Africa. In 2005, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all Colgate operations worldwide.
DINA DUBLON, 56, was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2005. Ms. Dublon retired from JP Morgan Chase & Co. in 2004, where she had served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 1998. She is a director of Microsoft Corp. and Accenture. She is also a director of the Global Fund for Women and the Women's Refugee Commission. She is a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University.
VICTOR J. DZAU, MD, 64, was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2005. Dr. Dzau is Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System since July 2004. Prior to that he served as Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was the previous Chairman of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee and he served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH. Dr. Dzau has been named 2004 Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association and was the recipient of the 2004 Max Delbruck Medal, Berlin, Germany, and the 2005 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Dr. Dzau is also a director of Genzyme Corporation, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc.
RAY L. HUNT, 66, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hunt Oil Company and Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Hunt Consolidated, Inc., was elected to PepsiCo's Board in 1996. Mr. Hunt began his association with Hunt Oil Company in 1958 and has held his current position since 1976. He is also a director of numerous charitable and corporate organizations, including Bessemer Securities Corporation, Bessemer Securities LLC and King Ranch Inc.
ALBERTO IBARGÜEN, 66, was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2005. Mr. Ibargüen has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation since 2005. Mr. Ibargüen previously served as Chairman of Miami Herald Publishing Co., a Knight Ridder subsidiary, and as publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald. He is a member of the boards of AMR Corporation, American Airlines, Inc., ProPublica and The Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Ibargüen is also the Chairman of the Board of The Newseum in Washington, D.C. and of the Worldwide Web Foundation in Switzerland.
ARTHUR C. MARTINEZ, 70, former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was elected to PepsiCo's Board in 1999. Mr. Martinez was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the former Sears Merchandise Group from 1992 to 1995 and served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sears, Roebuck and Co. from 1995 until 2000. He served as Vice Chairman and a director of Saks Fifth Avenue from 1990 to 1992. He is also a director of Liz Claiborne, Inc., International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc., Interactive Corp (IAC) and American International Group (AIG). Mr. Martinez is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ABN AMRO Holding, N.V. and Chairman of HSN, Inc.
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 19 different product lines that each generate more than $1 billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's main businesses – Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade – make hundreds of nourishing foods and beverages that bring joy to consumers in more than 200 countries. With nearly $60 billion in revenue, PepsiCo employs 285,000 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 and the merger with PepsiCo's anchor bottlers.
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 Grocery Manufacturers Association. She is also a Successor Fellow of Yale Corporation and was appointed to the U.S.-India CEO Forum by the Obama Administration.
She holds a BS from Madras Christian College, an MBA 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.
SHARON PERCY ROCKEFELLER, 65, was elected a director of PepsiCo in 1986. She is President and Chief Executive Officer of WETA public stations in Washington, D.C., a position she has held since 1989, and was a member of the Board of Directors of WETA from 1985 to 1989. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting until 1992 and is currently a director of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in Washington, D.C. Ms. Rockefeller currently serves as a Trustee on the following non-profit boards: National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
JAMES J. SCHIRO, 64, was elected to PepsiCo's Board in 2003. Mr. Schiro was Chief Executive Officer of Zurich Financial Services from May 2002 to December 2009, after serving as Chief Operating Officer - Group Finance since March 2002. He joined Price Waterhouse in 1967, where he held various management positions. In 1994 he was elected Chairman and senior partner of Price Waterhouse, and in 1998 became Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers, after the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Schiro is also a Director of Royal Philips Electronics and Goldman Sachs.
LLOYD G. TROTTER, 64, was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2008. Mr. Trotter is a managing partner at GenNx360 Capital Partners, a position he has held since February 2008. He served as Vice Chairman, General Electric, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Industrial, from 2006 through February 2008. Between 1989 and 2006, he held various positions at GE, including Executive Vice President, Operations, from 2005 to 2006, President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Consumer and Industrial Systems from 1998 to 2005 and President and Chief Executive Officer, Electrical Distribution and Control from 1992 to 1998. Mr. Trotter is a former director of Genpact Limited. Mr. Trotter is also a director of Textron, Inc. and Daimler AG.
DANIEL VASELLA, 56, has been Chairman of the Board of Novartis AG since 1999. Dr. Vasella served as Chief Executive Officer of Novartis from 1999 to January 2010, after serving as President since 1996. From 1992 to 1996, Dr. Vasella held the positions of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President and Head of Worldwide Development and Head of Corporate Marketing at Sandoz Pharma Ltd. He also served at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation from 1988 to 1992. Dr. Vasella is also a director of Alcon Laboratories, Inc. and was elected to PepsiCo's Board in February 2002.
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