Katharina Stenholm recently joined PepsiCo as Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo Europe. Katharina joins the company from Danone where she held a number of leadership roles in procurement and supply chain, including delivering their Nature sustainability agenda across the business and into sourcing strategies. Prior to Danone, Katharina worked in leadership positions at SABMiller (now AB InBev) and Polttimo Group. With the announcement last year of PepsiCo Positive (pep+), the company’s end to end transformation which puts sustainability at the heart of the business, this is a critical new position on PepsiCo’s leadership team in Europe, reporting into the sector CEO, Silviu Popovici. It will help accelerate the agenda across all parts of the business and bring an integrated approach to sustainability planning across all the functions.
Katharina shared, “PepsiCo has long had an aspirational and holistic sustainability agenda. Now with pep+ there is a clear roadmap on how the company can sustainably grow and bring value to the planet and people. We’re taking a lot of action internally to deliver on that vision and I will be focusing on how we can embed pep+ into our decision making and partnerships to accelerate our work. Here in Europe, we also have great tailwinds to deliver on our ambitious vision, including the work led by many national governments as well as the European Union Green Deal. With collaboration critical to deliver systemic change in areas like the green energy transition and building a circular economy, partnership with NGOs, peer companies, suppliers and customers will be a key focus as we work to drive progress on shared challenges.”
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