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In the mid-1990s, the corporate landscape of America was still predominantly led by white men, with few women-and even fewer immigrants-occupying C-suite positions.
It was within this environment that an ambitious woman from Chennai, India found herself navigating the competitive corridors of PepsiCo.
Having arrived in the United States in 1978 to attend Yale School of Management, where she worked as a receptionist to support herself, Indra Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 at the age of 39, after stints at Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, and Asea Brown Boveri.
Few could have predicted that this immigrant woman would eventually reshape one of America’s most iconic corporations, challenging conventional business wisdom while breaking countless barriers along the way.
