Pepsi's CEO

Indra Nooyi Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, born in 28 October 1955 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Education

- High school from Holy Angels AIHSS, Chennai

• -Bachelor's degree majoring in Physics,Chemistry and Maths from Madras Christian College in 1974
  - Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
  - Master degree in Public and Private Management from Yale School of Management in 1978.
  Career
• -While at Yale, she completed her summer internship with Booz & Company.
  - Position as a product manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell
  - Joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), directing international corporate strategy projects
  - She moved on to Motorola (MOT), where she served as vice president and director of corporate strategy and planning

Career with Pepsi

-In 1994, PepsiCo made her senior vice president of corporate strategy and development.
- She's held posts as senior vice president and CFO, president and CFO, and was named to PepsiCo's Board of Directors in 2001.
- Company's fifth CEO in 2006.
Business strategy

- Pepsi's spin-off of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC, which became YUM Brands (YUM),
-Purchase of its two biggest bottlers, PepsiAmericas (PAS) and Pepsi Bottling Group (PBC), which is anticipated to produce $300 million in annual cost savings.
- Acquisition of Tropicana for $3.3 billion and for the $13 billion merger with the Quaker Oats Company.

- Restructuring PepsiCo and its massive billion-dollar food and beverage portfolio of 19 product lines.

- Riding the future wave of sustainability, the goal of her multi-year growth model is to drive innovation in wholesome ingredients, energy use, water and packaging, and workforce diversification. Current sales of "good-for-you" nutrition brands like Tropicana, Dole, Quaker, and Tazo total $10 billion, and Nooyi hopes to triple that figure within 10 years.

- Being the mother figure to her employees, whom she considers part of her family, and keeps an an open-door policy.

- Every quarter she writes hand-written thank-you letters to the spouses of all 27 executives for putting up with long hours away from home.

- After seeing the impact of her success on her mother during a visit home, Nooyi also began sending letters to executives' parents.

Lesson from her

- You can be a working mother and climb the corporate ladder while raising children.

- You can get ahead in the any corporate environment without sacrificing who you are culturally. As she presented herself in sari in her first interview and was successful to get the job in spite of her sari

World's top 10 Billionaires of 2011

Forbes, the popular business and finance magazine released the list of the richest people of the world for this year 2011. Carlos Slim Helu is at the top position for 2 years. The Mexican telecoms mogul now boasts an astounding $74 Billion in his name, a $20.5 Billion increase over last year. In the distant second place is William "Bill" Gates, founder of Microsoft with a net worth of $56 Billion, up $3 Billion compared last year.
Here's the complete list of the Top 10 Billionaires in the World and the comparision of net worth of last year and this year.

1. Carlos Slim Helu and Family
2010 – $ 53.5 Billion
2011 - $74 Billion
Age – 71
Source- Telecom
Country of Citizenship- Mexican

2. William "Bill" Gates
2010 - $ 53 Billion
2011 - $ 56 Billion
Age – 55
Source- Microsoft
Country of Citizenship- United States.

3. Warren Buffett
2010 - $ 47 Billion
2011 - $50 Billion
Age – 80
Source- Berkshire Hataway
Country of Citizenship- United States.

4. Bernard Arnault
2010 - $ 27.5 Billion.
2011 - $ 41 Billion
Age – 62
Source- LVMH
Country of Citizenship- France

5. Lawrence Ellison
2010 - $ 28 Billion
2011 - $39.5 Billion
Age – 66
Source- Oracle
Country of Citizenship- United States.

6. Lakshmi Mittal
2010 - $ 28.7 Billion.
2011 - $31.1 Billion
Age – 60
Source- Steel
Country of Citizenship- India

7. Amancio Ortega
2010 - $ 25 Billion
2011 - $31 Billion
Age – 75
Source- Zara
Country of Citizenship- Spain

8. Eike Batista
2010 - $ 27 Billion
2011 - $30 Billion
Age – 54
Source- Mining , Oil
Country of Citizenship- Brazil.

9. Muskesh Ambani
2010 - $ 29 Billion
2011 - $27 Billion
Age – 54
Source- petrochemicals, oil & gas
Country of Citizenship- India.

10. Christy Walton and Family
2010 - $ 22.5 Billion
2011 - $26.5 Billion
Age – 56
Source- Walmart
Country of Citizenship- United states.

- Christy Walton of Wal-Mart, who was 12th last year made it to the top 10 this year.

- Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin tied at No. 24 with $19.8 Billion each (up from $17.5 Billion last year).

- Jeff Bezos of Amazon is at No.30 with $18.1 Billion.

- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is is one of the youngest Billionaires in the world. His ranking is at 52 with $13.5 Billion.

- Steve Jobs of Pixar and Apple is at 110 with 8.3 Billion.

Baraha chetra

Our family use to go to Bahara chetra once a year either for Puja , lakh batti or shraddha. My old grandfather use to do shraddha there. I remember one incident. I was about 8 yrs old. Our family had travelled for shraddha. At that time there was not transportation facillity from Chattara to Baraha chetra and the distance is about 5 km. That time I walked by myself.Since I was 8,or 9 th grader I didnot visited the temple because I spent most of the time in Kathmandu. But this time I visited there along with my son, mother and brother. Next time I hope to visit there with my husband.

Main Temple

Saptakoshi

Worshipper first take shower in the river and walk up stairs and do Puja.

Stairs to the temple from the bank of Saptakoshi

View of the river from the Dharmashalla

The main temple. We cannot carry our cam in but from outside we can take the picture but I was not fortune because there were lots of people and my 16 months old wanted to take picture more than me. Every time he was grabbing the camera. Main Entrance to the temple.
The Koka river meets here with the koshi river. There is a belief that you can see a golden fish in the river if your are not a sinner .................