Gautam Garg is the Senior Director and Chief Information Officer at PepsiCo India with 23+ years of experience. Gautam is a digital transformation strategist specializing in SAP ERP Capabilities, IT infrastructure management, IT operations, Sales automation among others.   

In his current role, Gautam leads PepsiCo India’s IT function across all business units. His key responsibility includes supporting capabilities that improve business processes, enable employees to connect and collaborate more easily, collect and mine data for analytical insights, enhancing the performance across all aspects of PepsiCo India’s value chain.  

He started his career with PepsiCo in 2000, and since then he has worked on several Sales and IT transformation projects across India, China, APAC and AMENA markets. He has proven experience of partnering business in deployment of enterprise solutions to drive transformation agendas and process improvements via large scale SAP Deployments.  

Gautam holds a MBA (Systems) from Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Delhi and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University. In his free time, he likes to travel and read books. 

Vinod Kaushal joined PepsiCo India in 1998, serving as a Legal Manager till 2005. In his second stint starting 2010, he joined as a Senior Director Legal for India region. With over 25 years of diverse experience, Mr Kaushal is responsible for leading legal and compliance matters at PepsiCo India.  

He has also been associated with Marico and Nestle India as a Legal Manager.  

Vinod is an alumnus of Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, and has studied company law from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He/ She enjoys traveling, reading, and watching movies in his free time.  

George is a long-term PepsiCo employee having spent 29+ years with the company.  He is currently responsible for leading the beverage business and creating long-term sustainability strategy for both the foods and beverage categories at PepsiCo India region.    

George spent nearly 19 years in various international assignments prior to his return to India in early 2022.  In his last role, he provided stewardship to PepsiCo’s International Away from Home business for 6 years out of the global HQ in New York, and prior to that spent 13 years in various roles for PepsiCo’s Asia Pacific and China businesses, including being the General Manager of the PepsiCo China Snacks and Foods division.  

George started his career with Unilever in India where he spent 3 years before moving on to complete his MBA with Distinction from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila in 1993 after which he moved to PepsiCo.    

George is married and lives in Gurugram with his wife Neena.  He has two daughters Meher (23) and Naaz (16) who are based in the US & UK.  In his spare time he likes playing golf, watching movies with his family and playing his guitar.   

Kaushik joined PepsiCo India in 2002. With 30 years of diverse experience, Kaushik is responsible for leading the Finance  function and agenda for PepsiCo’s Food, Beverage, and Nutrition business in India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Nepal.   

He has served in multiple roles in PepsiCo and across several industries and companies such as the RPG group, Tata group, GE, and Reckitt Benckiser. 

Kaushik is an alumnus of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata. He enjoys playing the guitar, writing fiction novels and travelling in his free time. 

Mijanur Rahman (Mij) is currently Senior Director & Site Head of India R&D since 2015. His current scope includes Foods for India and Grains development for Middle East markets. He has held several roles in the past including R&D Head for Beverages and New Business Development . Prior to that, he led R&D Innovations for GSK Consumer Healthcare based in Gurgaon. 

In PepsiCo he has led the efforts to expand the company portfolio into new spaces and drive growth. R&D team has been instrumental in establishing strong leadership into meeting human and planet sustainability goals for the company.   

Mij is passionate about building organizational capability and gender diversity and has a track record of developing future R&D leaders for the industry.  He has always been an early adaptor of technologies and innovative approaches to offer insightful product solutions. He has a wide  experience of cross-cultural working and leading multi -cultural teams across 22 countries. 

Mij is a post graduate of the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and prior to that studied Food Technology & Bio Chemical Engr. from Jadavpur University.  

Pavitra Singh currently heads HR for PepsiCo India. She has been with PepsiCo since 2006.  With 20+ years of overall work experience leading large teams across geographies, she has held leadership positions across a variety of roles in India and other markets. From Center of excellence roles like Talent Management, L&D, Culture, D&I, Talent Acquisition to operating HR Business partnering roles. Prior to joining PepsiCo, she has worked with American Express and Fair Isaac. Pavitra is passionate about building institutional capability and nurturing young talent. A DEI evangelist, she strongly believes in creating a culture of inclusion for all diversity to thrive in spirit and action.  

A known leader in the HR domain, she has been recognized externally by multiple forums and thought leadership platforms. To name a few she was recognized in ET’s Women Ahead list as one of Corporate India's fastest rising women leaders, featured in ETHR world 50 thought leaders of 2022, Business World’s Most Influential Women 2022 list and called out in many external forums as DE&I champion. 

Pavitra is an explorer at heart. She loves travelling the world and experiencing different cultures. A Gen Z mom, she loves spending time with her daughter and learning from her new age methods.