Indra Nooyi is the chief financial officer and president of PepsiCo. Best identified for its Pepsi soft drinks, the global powerhouse which Nooyi supervised is truly one of the world's leading snack-food companies.
That makes and sells many of further products, with Doritos-brand chips, the Quaker Oats cereals, and Tropicana juice line. Nooyi is one of the top women executives in the United States.
Nooyi was born in Indian city Madras, in 1955, and was a bit of a law breaker in her traditional, middle-class world as she rose up. In an epoch in India where it was thought unseemly for young ladies to exert themselves, Nooyi joined a girls' cricket team.
She also played guitar in an all-girls rock band through learning at Madras Christian College. After getting her undergraduate degree in physics, chemistry, and math, she went on to listed in the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. Consequently, it was one of only two colleges in the nation that offers a master's degree in business administration, or M.B.A.
Her first job after passing her degree was with a British textile firm, Tootal. After that, Nooyi was appointed as a brand manager at the Johnson & Johnson Bombay office; maker of personal-care products. Nooyi had given the Stayfree account that may have proved a big challenge for still an skilled marketing executive. The product had just been launched in the Indian market, and struggled to make an identity with its target consumers.
Nooyi begins to feel that maybe she was under-prepared for the industry world. Decided to study in the USA, she applied to and was admitted by Yale University's Graduate School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut. Greatly the surprise for her, her parents allowed to her move to America in the year 1978.
Joined PepsiCo
At PepsiCo, Nooyi has been the main dealmaker for two of its most essential acquisitions: Nooyi set the deal of $3.3 billion-dollar for the acquirement of the orange-juice brand Tropicana in 1998, and 2 years after it was part of the lineup that secured Quaker Oats for $14 billion. Which became one of the largest food deals in business history, also added a vast range of snack-food and cereals products to the PepsiCo firm. Nooyi also helped purchase the edgy beverage producer SoBe for $337 million, and then her deal hit the one submitted by Coca-Cola.
For her notable deal making talents, she was promoted in February of 2000 to the post of chief financial officer at PepsiCo and she became the highest-position Indian-born woman in the ranks of corporate America. After a year, she was given the designation of president also, when her longtime coworker, Steven S. Reinemund, advanced to the post of board chair and chief executive officer.
