Company · Food & Beverage · Consumer Products · founded 1965

PepsiCo

American multinational food and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York. Formed in 1965 by the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay.

Of the 4 people here linked to PepsiCo, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at AT&T. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

4 people at PepsiCo

Executive

Role

Head of music and entertainment marketing, 2005–2014

Also at

Apple Uber Endeavor Netflix

Source · high confidence. Joined as a senior marketing manager in 2005 and later led music and entertainment marketing.

Past

Advertising & Marketing 4 / 8

Bozoma Saint John

Marketing executive; former CMO, Netflix; Chief Brand Officer, Uber; head of global marketing, Apple Music

academic-professional, displaced by coup · some · college degree

Executive

Role

Senior VP of strategic planning (1994), CFO (2000), president (2001), chairman and CEO (2006), 1994–2019

Also at

Amazon Boston Consulting Group Motorola Johnson & Johnson

Source · high confidence. PepsiCo's August 6, 2018 8-K (opened 2026-10-18) says Nooyi, then Chairman and CEO, would depart PepsiCo in early 2019, with Ramon Laguarta CEO effective October 3, 2018. So CEO ended October 2018 (Wikipedia: CEO 2006-2018) and the chairman role ran into early 2019; the exact date she left the chairmanship was not found in the sources opened.

Past

Consumer Products 4 / 8

Indra Nooyi

Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

middle-class · some · graduate degree

Board

Role

Member of the board of directors and its audit committee

Also at

AT&T US West Orange Telstra

Source · high confidence. PepsiCo's July 2005 8-K says the board accepted his resignation, effective after its September meeting, and thanks him for five years of service; the start year is not stated in that filing.

Past

Telecommunications 5 / 4

Solomon Trujillo