Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"I came to Yale as a young, intelligent immigrant. I left an educated, mature young executive, ready to face the challenges of Corporate America. Over the past 30 years, Yale has been my inspiration and support."

Indra Nooyi is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo. As CEO, Ms. Nooyi leads one of the world’s largest convenient foods and beverages companies, with 2005 revenues of nearly $33 billion. Its businesses include Frito-Lay, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana, Gatorade and Quaker Foods.

Ms. Nooyi has directed the company's global strategy for over a decade and was the primary architect of PepsiCo's restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants into the successful YUM! Brands, Inc., the spin-off and public offering of company-owned bottling operations into anchor bottler Pepsi Bottling Group, acquiring Tropicana, and the merger with Quaker Oats that brought the vital Quaker and Gatorade businesses to PepsiCo. Recently, she has been driving critical cross-business initiatives to enhance operations and enable PepsiCo to meet the changing needs of consumers and retailers.

Prior to becoming Chairman and CEO on October 1, 2006, Ms. Nooyi served as President and Chief Financial Officer since 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, Ms. Nooyi was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo. Between 1996 and 1999, Ms. Nooyi was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development.

Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, Ms. Nooyi spent four years as Senior Vice President of Strategy, and Strategic Marketing for Asea Brown Boveri. She was part of the top management team responsible for the company's U.S. business as well as its worldwide industrial businesses, generating about one-third of ABB's $30 billion in global sales.

Between 1986 and 1990, Ms. Nooyi was at Motorola where she was Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning, having joined the company in 1986 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.

Ms. 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, Ms. Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Motorola, the International Rescue Committee and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. She is a Successor Fellow of Yale Corporation and on the advisory boards of Yale School of Management, the board of trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships and Asia Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission.

She holds a BS from Madras Christian College in Madras, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a Master of Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management . Ms. Nooyi is married and has two daughters.