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After a long, fizzy ride on the conveyer belt of corporate climbing, Indra Nooyi is the choice of a new generation (via SAJA).
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The 50-year-old Nooyi becomes the CEO of Pepsi in October, taking over from lame duck CEO Steve Reinemund. Pepsi becomes the largest U.S. company with a female CEO.
Of the Fortune 500 roster of the nation’s largest industrial companies, only 12 have chief executives who are women. [Link]
Ironically, Pepsi and Coke currently stand accused of pesticide contamination in India, and several states have banned the sale of their colddrinks.
I bet right wingnuts will go bananas. They took umbrage at her tin-eared turn of phrase (a middle finger analogy during a speech about American foreign policy) and flung the dung of nativism through the bars of their brains.
Pepsi has revenues of $33B and a $105B market cap. Nooyi, currently CFO, has been at Pepsi since 1994. She’s an alumnus of Motorola, BCG, Johnson & Johnson, Yale, IIM-Calcutta and Madras Christian College.
Other desi CEOs of large U.S. companies:
- Meeta Vyas, former CEO, Signature Brands (Betty Crocker)
- Rajat Gupta, former managing partner, McKinsey & Co.
- Jim Wadia, former CEO, Arthur Andersen
- Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO, U.S. Airways
- Sanjay Kumar, former CEO, Computer Associates
- Bhaskar Menon, former chairman and CEO of EMI Records (’78)
on Monday, August 14th, 2006, 7:01 pm in Business, Profiles › 
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just proud of a desi gal making it big in the ranks of a mostly all white boy network…
you go girl…
:)
right wing nuts? Is that, like, a rethuglican or something? Watch out. I’m ready to break out with the dhimmocrat.
No, however crass her comments were, this wing nut is quite happy to see her move ahead. Excellent.
Right (wingnuts) = extremists
(Right-wing) nuts = all right wingers
I’m ready to break out with the dhimmocrat.
I’m a fiscal conservative, so Dubya out.