Experience

SMU Cox School of Business

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  Special topics presentation at the SMU Cox School's Business Leadership Forum to include: (1) Managing Innovation and Commercialization of Ideas from a Finance Perspective. (2) Process Transformation and Business Process Re-Engineering. (3) Strategic Thinking Special topics presentation at the SMU Cox School's Business Leadership Forum to include: (1) Managing Innovation and Commercialization of Ideas from a Finance Perspective. (2) Process Transformation and Business Process Re-Engineering. (3) Strategic Thinking


Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas
• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Visiting Lecturer

  • Oct 2016 - Present

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
• India
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Visiting Professor

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2020


Junior Achievement USA

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Volunteer

  • Jan 2015 - Jun 2018

  Teaching Economic Literacy to Middle School and High School students Teaching Economic Literacy to Middle School and High School students



PepsiCo

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director of Transformation

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2016

  Business process re-engineering & change management of key decision processes involving new product development, brand portfolio strategies, and productivity management. Design, development and global implementation of knowledge management system solutions to facilitate decision making.

• Senior Director of Finance- PAF Strategy, Global Nutrition & Snacks Group

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2012

  Innovation Finance and Commercialization of new products to enhance PepsiCo's product portfolio. Key accountabilities entail system economics, Go to Market startegies, business case development, and developing commercialization solutions.

• Senior Director of Finance

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2011

  Finance lead for Pepsi Beverages Company Cold Fill Supply Chain with accountability for Manufacturing, Logistics, and Go to Market systems. Accountability scope involves influencing the strategic agenda for the full value chain, network optimization, development of flexible Go to Market systems, and instituting robust financial processes to drive insight and sound decision making,

• Finance Director

  • May 2008 - Dec 2008

  Functional lead Pepsi Cola Supply Chain Finance. Accountability scope entails providing technical stewardship to create supply chain finance capabilities, building a team, network optimization, capital budgeting, governance, operations cost performance, forecasting, and planning.

• Group Manager of Innovation Finance

  • Oct 2005 - Apr 2008

  Finance point for Frito Lay North America innovation finance. New product qualification, project economics, innovation portfolio solutions, governance.

• Finance Manager, Convenience Foods

  • Jun 2003 - Sep 2005

  Overall finance support for the Convenience Foods Division, including Strategic Planning, Annual Operating Plan Development, Innovation, Business Integration, and G&A/Marketing Budget control.

• Finance Manager, Midwest North Division

  • Apr 2002 - May 2003

  Front Line Net Sales Management, Account calendar development, Trade Spending Governance/budget management, Annual Operating Plan development.

• Finance Analyst, Supply Chain

  • Mar 1999 - Mar 2002

  Capacity Planning, New product analytics, network optimization.

• Senior Process Engineer

  • Jan 1995 - Mar 1999

  Process Development, scale up, new product commercialization from bench top to high speed manufacturing.

• Senior Process Engineer

  • 1995 - 1999



Rich Products Corporation

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Manager, Seapack Operations

  • Feb 1994 - Jan 1995

  New product commercialization of fresh and frozen seafood, and extruded vegetable products, Operations cost optimzation, facilitiy engineering. New product commercialization of fresh and frozen seafood, and extruded vegetable products, Operations cost optimzation, facilitiy engineering.



Yum! Brands

• United States
• Restaurants
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Engineer

  • Jan 1990 - Jan 1994

  Senior Research Engineer, New Products development, technology, and commercialization. Senior Research Engineer, New Products development, technology, and commercialization.



Hostess Brands

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Process Engineer

  • 1986 - 1989

  Process development and scale up of bakery products. New product commercialization. Process development and scale up of bakery products. New product commercialization.