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snack options. In keeping
up with this belief, she led
PepsiCo’s acquisition of
Tropicana and the merger
with Quaker Oats Company.
Both of these ventures proved
to be highly profitable to the
company.
In recognition of her
impressive work with the
company, Nooyi was
promoted to chief financial
officer in 2000 and the
president in 2001. In
2006, PepsiCo CEO Steve
Reinemund retired and Nooyi
became the fifth CEO in
PepsiCo’s 44-year history.
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Indra Nooyi also serves as
a member of the Foundation
Board of the World Economic
Forum, International Rescue
Committee, Catalyst, and
the Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts.
Career Growth
But again that did not stop
her from growing in her
career. After six years,
she joined Motorola as the
Vice-President and Director
of Corporate Strategy &
Planning. After spending
four years being part of
the top management team
handling Asea Brown Boveri’s
(a Zurich-based industrial
company) US business, she
joined Pepsi Co. in the year
1994.
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Serving the company at
various responsible levels and
growing solely on her hard work
and rigorous schedules, she
became the CFO and President
of Pepsi Co in 2001, it was also
announced that she was and
was also to be included in the
Board of Directors.
She was overwhelmed on
hearing the news and wanted to
share the same with her family
(her mother, her husband and
her two daughters). As soon as
she reached home, she saw her
mother and told her she had
great news to share to which
her mother nonchalantly replied
to get some milk for the next
day.
Achievements
Reaching the top position can
be a difficult task for a non-
American, and a woman at
that. But achieve she did, as
she struggled and dealt with
all the emotional, social and
cultural biases that are the
general norm in any work
place. Being a working
woman is no easy task and
Indra Nooyi knows that only
too well when she said in
a recent interview that a
woman can’t have it all even
if she pretends to.
Yet, she has proved that she
can be a wife, a mother, a
daughter, and a successful
working woman, a woman
to reckon with. Indra Nooyi
is an inspiring lady indeed
to millions of young girls
who fight their own battles
everyday at work places. A
success story that proves
that a woman can achieve
anything that she wishes for.
Family and Personal Life
Indra Nooyi lives in