{"id":61248,"date":"2026-10-29T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesauditimes.net\/en\/?p=61248"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:23:05","slug":"ramon-laguarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesauditimes.net\/en\/ramon-laguarta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Reshaping the Snacks and Drinks Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramon Laguarta is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo<\/a>, the American food and drinks group behind Lay’s, Doritos, Gatorade and Pepsi-Cola. He became chief executive on October 3, 2018 and added the role of chairman of the board in 2019.<\/p>\n

He has spent three decades inside the company, most of them in Europe, before moving to its head office in Purchase, New York. In 2025 PepsiCo reported net revenue of $93.9 billion, and Laguarta is now pushing a plan to restage its largest brands and widen its range of lower-sugar and functional products.<\/p>\n

Education<\/h3>\n

Laguarta holds an MBA from ESADE Business School in Spain, according to his PepsiCo biography.<\/p>\n

He also earned a Master in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in the United States.<\/p>\n

Career<\/h3>\n

Before joining PepsiCo, Laguarta worked for Chupa Chups, the Spanish confectionery maker. His assignments there took him to markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States as the company grew abroad.<\/p>\n

He joined PepsiCo in 1996 as a marketing vice president for its snacks business in Spain. From 1999 to 2001 he was a general manager for the Greece snacks business, and from 2002 to 2006 he was general manager for Iberia snacks and juices.<\/p>\n

His next steps were regional. He served as commercial vice president of PepsiCo Europe from 2006 to 2008, then led the PepsiCo Eastern Europe region from 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n

From 2012 to 2015 he was president of the developing and emerging markets unit of PepsiCo Europe. In January 2015 he became chief executive of PepsiCo Europe, and in July of that year he took charge of the wider Europe Sub-Saharan Africa sector, which he ran until September 2017.<\/p>\n

In September 2017 he was named president of PepsiCo. In that post he was responsible for the company’s global category groups, global operations and corporate strategy, as well as The PepsiCo Foundation.<\/p>\n

On August 3, 2018, the board appointed him chief executive officer and a director, with effect from October 3, 2018. He succeeded Indra Nooyi, who had led the company since 2006 and stayed on as chairman until early 2019, when Laguarta took on that title as well.<\/p>\n

Current Roles<\/h3>\n