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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kirk Tanner
CEO PepsiCo Beverages North America of PepsiCo
Kirk Tanner is president and chief operating officer of North America Beverages (NAB). He assumed his current role in March, 2016. A 24-year veteran of PepsiCo with strong leadership experience across beverages, snacks and foodservice, Kirk leads all aspects of PepsiCo’s beverage business in North America. Prior to this role, Kirk was chief operating officer of NAB and president of Global Foodservice. Under his leadership, the division introduced on-trend, transformative innovation including the Pepsi Spire fountain portfolio, STUBBORN Soda, Doritos Loaded and Hello Goodness Vending. In his role as chief operating officer of NAB, he was responsible for expanding partnerships and driving growth across PepsiCo’s foodservice and retail customer base in North America and foodservice operations globally. In his PepsiCo career, Kirk has lived and worked in 11 domestic and international locations and has had numerous positions, including senior vice president, Frito-Lay West Division and vice president of sales of PepsiCo in the UK and Ireland. His vast experience across sales, operations, customer marketing, distribution and channel development has given him a deep understanding of PepsiCo’s go-to-market systems, both in foods and beverages, as well as the varying needs of customers and consumers all over the world. Kirk has led several successful multi-cultural initiatives that resulted in multiple product introductions across the food and beverage portfolio.
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Ramon Laguarta
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo
Ramon Laguarta is Chief Executive Officer, Europe Sub-Saharan Africa, with responsibility for leading our food and beverages businesses across Europe and our food business in Sub-Saharan Africa. This role was effective in January 2015. Prior to this role, from November 2008, Ramon was President, PepsiCo Eastern Europe Region. Before that, from 2006 to 2008, he served as Commercial Vice President of Europe. From 2002 to 2006, he was General Manager for Iberia Snacks and Juices, and from 1999 to 2001 a General Manager for Greece Snacks and Marketing Vice President for Spain Snacks. Ramon joined PepsiCo in January 1996. Previous to PepsiCo, he worked for Chupa Chups, S.A., a Spanish leading confectionery company, where he held a number of international roles in Europe and the U.S. Ramon holds an MBA from ESADE Business School in Spain and a Master’s in International Management (M&M) from Thunderbird School of Global Management in the U.S.
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Albert Carey
Chief Executive Officer, North America of PepsiCo
Having served in a number of senior executive positions at PepsiCo, Inc., a consumer products company, Mr. Carey enhances our Board’s experience in and oversight of retail, supply chain and marketing matters, as well as contributing to the general management and strategic business development skills of our Board. In 2011, Mr. Carey was named Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo North America Beverages, assuming responsibilities for all aspects of PepsiCo’s beverages business in the Americas. From 2006 to 2011, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Frito-Lay North America, a snack food company and the largest North American business division of PepsiCo. He also served as President of PepsiCo Sales, the sales division of PepsiCo, from 2003 to 2006, in charge of PepsiCo’s sales and customer management for its retail, food service and fountain businesses. Other positions that Mr. Carey has held at PepsiCo, Inc. include Chief Operating Officer of PepsiCo Beverages & Foods North America, Senior Vice President of Sales for Pepsi-Cola North America and Chief Operating Officer of Frito-Lay North America. Prior to his career at PepsiCo, Mr. Carey spent seven years at Procter & Gamble.
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Laxman Narasimhan
Chief Executive Officer, Latin America of PepsiCo
Laxman Narasimhan is the chief executive officer of PepsiCo Latin America. PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $63 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world. Laxman assumed the position in September 2014. He leads PepsiCo’s food and beverage business across Latin America and reports to PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi. The business covers PepsiCo’s food and beverage businesses in Mexico, Brazil, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. He previously served as the senior vice president and CFO of PepsiCo Americas Foods based in Purchase, New York, which covered the important businesses of Frito-Lay, Quaker and PepsiCo’s Latin America Foods. Prior to PepsiCo, Laxman was a director and location manager of McKinsey’s New Delhi Office. He worked with McKinsey for 19 years around the world, including rotations in Cleveland, Tokyo, Toronto, San Francisco and New Delhi. He had responsibility for consumer-facing industries in India, co-led the Global Consumer and Shopper Insights Practice and led McKinsey’s research on the emerging market consumer. He has worked across multiple industries, including consumer, retail, energy, manufacturing, technology and healthcare. Previously, Laxman co-led the Global Retail Knowledge Council of McKinsey’s Retail Practice.
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About PepsiCo: PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide.
Nandeet Mehta
CEO & Founder of Pyur Solutions
Nandeet Mehta has been called a competitor by Forbes, and one of “The Youngest Venture Capitalist” by Huffington Post for starting his career in Venture Capital at the young age of 18. Nandeet has experience in the VC world being a Partner & Co-Founder of Prototype Capital. He was previously at Anthos Capital, Space Angels Network, and Science Inc. He graduated UCLA as an Edison Scholar and History student in 2017. During his time as a student, he had his first successful exit with Third Eye Technologies, acquired by TheBlindGuide, and co-created and co-lectured the “Self-Innovations Lab: Converting Academic Expertise to Industry Expertise” accredited class at UCLA. He was named to the University of California Office of the President 2016 “30 Under 30” for his work in Agricultural Innovation with Pyur Solutions. Nandeet was also awarded as a Kairos Society Fellow for Pyur Solutions and is the most recent addition as an Executive to Kairos Society and on the board of Wanderset. His experience also includes a myriad of internships at Fortune 500 companies and startups including Lyft, T-mobile, Ubisoft, Dell and Samsung. Mehta strives to express his passions through speaking at conferences, university events, moderating panels, and writing as a contributor to TechCrunch and Huffington Post.
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About Afore Capital, AON3D, Aura Health, Donut Media, FaZe Clan, Ghost Robotics, Grishin Robotics, Hightouch, Kiwibot, Orai, Prototype Capital, Pyur Solutions, TechCrunch, theCut, ViaBot: A cpg-focused, house of brands building a series of contemporary brands that cohesively addresses multiple touchpoints of daily life.
Kim Stiefel
CEO & Co-Founder of Repeat
Kim Stiefel is the CEO and Co-Founder of PRZM.
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About Repeat: Repeat is a SaaS platform that enables consumer-packaged-goods brands to turn one-time buyers into repeat customers.
Bentley Hall
CEO of Good Eggs
Bentley is a passionate, driven entrepreneur, who helps small consumer businesses become big – often very quickly. Ever since he was a kid, he has been fascinated with understanding how high growth companies achieve scale, disrupt industries and change the world we live in. After spending time with Johnson & Johnson and Clif Bar, he joined the Plum Organics team as employee #3 and was fortunate to hold a variety of executive roles, in multiple countries, as the business launched from $0 to ~$100+ million in annual sales in under 7 years. In 2013, the business was successfully sold to the Campbell Soup Co. Others have called him a creative problem solver, a levelheaded leader, an optimist, a self starter, a builder and a collaborator. While he is technically a certified accountant (CMA), he does not mention this at parties. Devoted to a lifetime of learning, he is continually humbled by how little he actually knew the previous year. Originally from just north of Boston, he now lives in Marin, California and spends as much time as possible outdoors (skiing, trail running, cycling, camping, stand up paddle boarding), eating tasty food and laughing with his wife, close friends and two young sons.
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About Good Eggs, Smallholding Investments: Good Eggs is an online grocer and meal kit delivery service with a mission to reinvent the food system, for good.
Chris Clifford
Founder & CEO of Day One Beverages
CPG founder and investor
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About Building Blocks Ventures, Day One Beverages, HED Skincare, Transcend Digital: Anything is possible on Day One. There’s no baggage or expectations and no limits on your imagination. Every day can be Day One if you want it to be. We created a simple, refreshing and effective beverage formula for balance and clarity. Sparkling Water + Cannabinoids
Min Chen
Co-founder and CEO of Wisy
Carnegie Mellon software engineering and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business alum, Fulbright scholarship recipient with 18 years of experience in digital transformation helping global companies in several countries. Min has received a myriad of global awards, such as Nasdaq Milestone Maker, United Nations JCI TOYP, Most Influential Business Woman, and more.
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About Wisy: Image recognition platform to revolutionize new ways to see retail
Will Salcido
Co-Founder & CEO of Bedrock Analytics
CEO @ Bedrock Analytics.
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About Bedrock Analytics: Bedrock Analytics SaaS application for the CPG vertical leverages ML to assist sales managers in automating selling pitches for retail.
Dorron Mottes
CEO and Founder of N-Frnds (nFrnds)
CEO and Founder of N-Frnds. Dorron Mottes is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in executive level positions, leading telecommunication initiatives from inception to significant sales in the global markets.
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About N-Frnds (nFrnds): N-Frnds’ unique agency network platform combines digital and physical distribution networks in emerging markets.
Mathew Gerson
Founder & Co-CEO of Foria
Mathew Gerson is Founder at Foria.
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About Foria: Foria is a health & sexual wellness company providing Cannabis & Hemp products for intimacy, relief, and optimal wellbeing for women.
Jon Brandon
Co-CEO and Founder of Foria
Jon Brandon is Advisor at Sports Shares.
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About Foria: Foria is a health & sexual wellness company providing Cannabis & Hemp products for intimacy, relief, and optimal wellbeing for women.
Edward Choudhry
CEO, Co-Founder of Product Blast
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About Hacker Dojo, Product Blast: Product Blast connects brands to consumers
Hamutal Schieber
CEO, NYC Office of Schieber Research
Hamutal Schieber is an expert on consumer goods and innovation, and frequently writes for major business publications and lectures at organizations, business schools and non-profits. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and has over 20 years of experience in market research and competitive intelligence. Founded Schieber Research in 2009 and heads the company’s NYC office since April, 2016.
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About Forbes Agency Council, Schieber Research, Schieber Research: Market research & competitive intelligence. Monitoring and analyzing consumer goods & retail trends, innovation, strategies and disruption.
Simon Walsh
CEO of Moving Authority
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About Moving Authority: The Answer for Moving Companies. Providing Online Services and Management Tools for the Moving Industry
Betty Toth
Co-Founder & CEO of ipiit
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About ipiit: ipiit, The Food Ambassador is a food discovery platform based on people’s personal food preferences.
Betty Toth
Co-Founder & CEO of ipiit
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About ipiit: ipiit, The Food Ambassador is a food discovery platform based on people’s personal food preferences.
