Umran Beba is an experienced senior business executive with general management, talent and diversity background. Close to 35 years of experience in Consumer Goods, where 25 years was with PepsiCo in four different locations, namely Istanbul, Hong Kong, Dubai and New York. She was the Asia Pacific President of PepsiCo, following president and general management roles in South East Europe, East Mediterranean/Middle East and Turkey. She has been in Chief HR Officer and Chief Diversity Officer roles in her career and managed several transformation projects, as well as executive recruitment, talent pipeline building, culture shaping, mentoring, coaching, diversity and inclusion agenda setting and execution and human capital management initiatives.

She joined Bakkavor Group PLC Board of Directors as an independent non-executive board director in September 2020. She has been an independent non-executive board director for five years in Japan Calbee Snacks public company in Tokyo and is currently on the board of International Youth Foundation as a co-chair of the board. She is a trustee of the Purchase College Foundation board and has a board of overseers role in Columbia University School of Professional Studies.

She is a native of Turkey and earned her MBA and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her family.

Awards & Recognitions

• Publication: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Changing the game for women leaders at PepsiCo: From local action to enterprise accountability, January 2021, Co-Author of Leaders with Purpose
• Top 10 Influential Women in Diversity-2020
• WeQual USA Finalist in the People Category, April 2020
• Top 50 Diversity Officers, National Diversity Council, April 2020
• Westchester Children’s Association 2020 Edith C. Macy Award
• Best Mentors of the Year, Break the Ceiling Touch the Sky Singapore Global Summit, 2019
• Forbes Turkey magazine, Greatest living business minds of Turkey, 2018
• Inspirational Women Leaders of the Year, Break the Ceiling Touch the Sky Singapore, 2018
• Black Enterprise magazine, Top diversity leaders, 2018
• Gold Stevie Award – female Executive of the Year, 2014
• Women International Network, the Global Inspiring Women Worldwide Award, 2013
• PepsiCo Steve Reinemund Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Legacy Award, 2012
• The International Alliance for Women (TIAW), 2011