The first woman of Indian origin to run a Fortune 50 company — and one of the very few CEOs in any country to have used the office to argue, in print and in shareholder meetings, that a global food and beverage company has obligations to its consumers' health that exceed its quarterly numbers. Born in Madras in 1955, Madras Christian College, IIM Calcutta, Yale School of Management. Took over PepsiCo in 2006. Led it through the Great Recession, the global pivot to healthier products, the acquisition spree that built its hydration and nutrition portfolios. Retired in 2018 as one of the most-quoted business voices on the work-life realities that women, and South Asian women, navigate in American corporate life. My Life in Full — her 2021 memoir — is, in places, plain about the costs.