Indra Nooyi

PepsiCo CEO
Born: 1955, India
Now lives in U.S.

Pepsi's (PEP) boss, who is also the chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council, attended Madras Christian College in southern India and received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata (Calcutta) before studying at Yale, where she got a master's in public and private management. Prior to joining Pepsi in 1994, she worked for ABB, Motorola, Boston Consulting Group and Johnson & Johnson. Nooyi was Pepsi's chief financial officer for five years before becoming president and CEO in 2006.