PepsiCo R&D boss: Give me few hundred million dollars and five years and I'll transform your business...
One of the highlights of day one of the show was a presentation from PepsiCo's chief scientific officer Dr Mehmood Khan, who said we won't change the world if we can't see beyond the next quarterly earnings statement.
At his job interview, says Khan, he told PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi he needed hundreds of millions of dollars, a multi-disciplinary research team and five years to really make a difference. He got the job...