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#5 Indra K. Nooyi
08.30.07, 6:00 PM ET
Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo
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Nooyi has been steadily consolidating her power at PepsiCo, one of the largest companies in the world with $35 billion in annual revenue and a $105 billion market capitalization. Last February Nooyi added the title of chairman to her chief executive position at the food-and-beverage giant, maker of Frito-Lay snacks, Pepsi beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices and Quaker foods; a whopping 17 PepsiCo brands each generate $1 billion or more in annual sales. Nooyi has pushed PepsiCo to move beyond soda, first by helping to start the company's fast-food chains in 1997, and later by spearheading the purchase of Tropicana in 1998. In an effort to offset slowing business in the Gatorade division, Nooyi advocates vitamin and energy-infused water drinks. Nooyi was born in Southern India, and went on to obtain degrees in chemistry, physics and math and master's degrees from Calcutta's Indian Institute of Management and Yale University. She came to the U.S. from India in 1978. Prior to joining PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi did stints at the Boston Consulting Group and Motorola. "Being a woman, being foreign-born, you've got to be smarter than anyone else," she has said. In April, PepsiCo made the largest corporate purchase of renewable energy certificates (similar to carbon credits) to date—three billion kilowatt hours.—Erika Brown