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Marcelo Stefani

Title: CPO Company: PepsiCo Industry: Food & Beverage
Marcelo serves as Global Chief Procurement Officer at PepsiCo, developing procurement strategies aligned with the company’ s nextgeneration objectives. He oversees procurement for the global food and beverage leader, which generated more than US $ 91bn in net revenue in 2023. Before joining PepsiCo, Marcelo was
CPO at SC Johnson from 2012 to 2015. He spent over 20 years at Unilever in senior roles across procurement, supply chain and finance. He holds a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and is a CPA. A C-suite executive with deep consumer products expertise, Marcelo champions diversity and inclusion while driving margin improvement, organisational transformation and M & A integration. His leadership emphasises sustainability, business resilience and high-performance culture development. Marcelo envisions procurement integrated with AI and advanced analytics to build agile supply chains.
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