2nd Annual Clapman Lecture – Stories from the Frontlines of Corporate Governance: A Conversation with Indra Nooyi
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A Conversation with Indra Nooyi, Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo; and Board Member, Amazon
About Indra Nooyi:
Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi is a business powerhouse wjo, globally renowned for leading the company through a decade of tremendous growth and change. Praised for her prescient and strategic thinking, she was responsible for growing PepsiCo’s revenues from $35 billion when she became CEO, to $63.5 billion in 2017. She oversaw a portfolio of global brands and diversified products enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 180 countries and territories around the world. As PepsiCo’s director of global strategy for over a decade, Nooyi led the company’s restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants into the successful YUM! Brands, Inc; the acquisition of Tropicana and merger with Quaker Oats; the merger with PepsiCo’s anchor bottlers; and the acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann, the largest international acquisition in PepsiCo’s history.
An advisor to several early-stage companies, Ms. Nooyi currently serves on the boards of Amazon, Philips, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Partnership for Public Service, and is an independent director of the International Cricket Council. She is a trustee at the National Gallery of Art, and is on the Dean’s Advisory Council at MIT’s School of Engineering. Click here to read Indra’s full biography.
The Clapman Lecture honors the life and contributions of our dear friend Peter Clapman, who passed away in February 2021. During his long tenure leading the governance team at TIAA-CREF, Peter helped to establish many governance norms that are now considered to be standard business practices, pushed for corporate reforms such as board independence and greater board diversity, and served as Chairman of the International Corporate Governance Network. A pioneer in his professional life, Peter was a beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend to many. The annual Clapman Lecture will seek to illuminate the history, challenges, and complexity of corporate governance topics through the voices of leading members of the issuer, investor, and corporate governance communities.