- Shyam Venugopal
- Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Media Transformation / PepsiCo
Shyam is the Senior Vice President for Global Marketing and Media Transformation at PepsiCo. In this capacity, he leads PepsiCo’s multi-year Global Marketing transformation effort – ‘Powering Positive Growth’. Shyam also has accountability for PepsiCo’s media function and its capability agenda globally. He is part of both the Marketing and the Consumer Leadership teams at PepsiCo. Before this, he served as Senior VP for Consumer and Commercial capabilities, overseeing the development of digital products and solutions for marketing and sales.
Shyam has been with PepsiCo since 2012, holding various leadership roles in analytics, insights, and marketing across multiple regions. Before joining PepsiCo, he worked as a consultant in diverse industries, tackling problems in automotive, healthcare, and video gaming, which sparked his passion for using data and analytics to solve business challenges.
Shyam has a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai and a M.S. from Purdue University, both in Engineering. Originally from Kerala, India, Shyam has called Dallas home for close to 2 decades. He and his wife Abitha are parents to their almost 5-year-old toddler, Zoya.
His favorite PepsiCo Products include Off The Eaten Path, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Lays Poppable and Bubly.