Shveta Sharma

Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, has been ranked fifth on Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women. (money.cnn.com). She has also been named as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in America.
Since joining PepsiCo in 1994, Ms. Nooyi has been leading worldwide strategic initiatives, merger, and acquisition and divestiture activities for the company. More significantly, in the last five years Ms. Nooyi has played a key role in developing successful recruitment strategies within PepsiCo, resulting in a share price that has appreciated almost 80 percent. (www.Hunt-scanlon.com)
Under her leadership, PepsiCo has overtaken Coca Cola, one of the oldest rivals, to be at number one position. She believes in constantly reinventing to stay ahead in the race. She says, “The minute you've developed a new business model, it's extinct, because somebody is going to copy it."(money.cnn.com). Her high degree of dedication, vision, focus and strategically using the competitive intelligence to her company’s advantage is what makes her an ideal leader