Who we are
SVP & General Manager
Marc Schroeder
SVP & General Manager
Marc joined PepsiCo in 2004 and
held a number of senior leadership positions within the company before his
appointment as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Pepsi Lipton in
February 2016.
In this role Marc has global
responsibility for this joint venture between Unilever
and PepsiCo operating in roughly 120 countries
worldwide.
Prior to his current assignment, Marc
was Senior Vice President for PepsiCo’s Global Nutrition Group,
running multi-billion dollar brands such as Tropicana, Quaker and Naked.
Prior to GNG, Marc was the Vice
President & General Manager, Russia Foods, where he led the transformation
of the snacks portfolio to match changing consumer trends. He began his PepsiCo
career in the Benelux region where he led the beverages business.
Before joining PepsiCo, Marc worked at Proctor &
Gamble and MetrixLab.
Marc earned his Business Economics Masters degree at Erasmus University in
Rotterdam in the Netherlands with parts of his studies completed in Oxford,
England and Milan, Italy.
Chief Marketing Officer
Carlo Pivanti
Chief Marketing Officer
Carlo Joined Unilever in 1985 and has covered multiple roles in the marketing function across different countries.
Prior to his current assignment, Carlo was based in Istanbul as VP Brand Development Refreshment (Ice Cream and Tea categories) for the NAMET & RUB cluster, a very complex region encompassing 35 very different countries.
Previous senior posts include European Marketing Manager for the Frozen Foods business based in Rotterdam, VP Marketing Ice Cream Unilever Italy, VP Brand Development Ice Cream for Western and Eastern Europe.
He graduated from the University of Rome with a degree in Economics.
Outside of work Carlo is married with two girls, and has many personal interests among which arts and history, philosophy, photography, movies, cooking and travelling.
Head of Human Resources
Claire Snell
Head of Human Resources
Having started her career at The Boots Company, Claire joined Unilever in 2004, and spent the first 2 years in the Finance Academy, as a Learning Manager.She then moved to take up a HR Business Partner role in the UK and Ireland MCO, partnering Sales and Marketing over a 5 year period. Claire has worked in the Leadership Development Expertise team for the past 6 years.
Head of Strategy and Insights
Emma De Szoeke
Head of Strategy and Insights
Emma joined PepsiCo in 2006 and has held various Insights roles across the former Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia business units. Until quite recently Emma was the VP Insights PepsiCo AMEA sector based in Dubai.
In this role Emma led a multi-disciplinary AMEA team including consumer, shopper and category and analytic insights. Emma has been instrumental in identifying long term growth opportunities across the full portfolio of categories and AMEA markets and successfully shaped foundational insight and breakthrough innovation platforms, strengthened linkages between consumer and shopper insights and step-changed business performance reporting across strategic AMEA markets and businesses.
In her current role with the Joint Venture, Emma is a key member of the Pepsi Lipton Leadership team and responsible for leading the SGP process for the JV, defining strategic direction in conjunction with the Pepsi Lipton Leadership Team and shaping and driving the Global Insights agenda across the Pepsi Lipton organization.
General Manager, North America
Emily Silver
General Manager, North America
Emily Silver joined the PepsiLipton world in August 2016 and was appointed VP and General Manager Pepsi Lipton North America.Emily joined PepsiCo in 2006 and has worked in various Marketing positions on Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Mountain Dew as well as leading the Media and Digital team and Portfolio Transformation for North America Beverages. Prior to that she spent four years working on US political campaigns.
Emily holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from Brandeis University and an MBA from Yale University. She lives in Westchester New York with her husband and two daughters.
General Manager, Europe
Bjorn Bernemann
General Manager, Europe
Bjorn started his career in P&G and then joined PepsiCo as the CFO for the Nordics Business, before transitioning to be the GM where he successfully led the growth agenda, transformed the Go-To-Market landscape and built a sustainable and positive work environment that was consistently recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’.Bjorn is married to Hedda and they have two sets of twins; Aurora and Johannes as well as Stella and Storm.
General Manager, Latin America
Juan Vargas
General Manager, Latin America
Juan joined PepsiCo in 1994 as Franchise Director Mexico having completed several successful years working with PepsiCo’s bottling partners in LATAM.
In 2002 he was appointed VP and General Manager for the PepsiCo business in Venezuela and Columbia where he spent five years rebuilding PepsiCo’s business there. He then moved back to Mexico as Franchise Vice President based in Guadalajara.
In 2010 Juan took the decision to leave PepsiCo to start up his own businesses which he has done successfully for the last four years. He then took the decision to return to PepsiCo as his two businesses in Mexico are being managed on his behalf. Juan and his family will move to Mexico City to establish a firm foundation there in one of our most important markets in LATAM.
General Manager, AMENA
Phil Green
General Manager, AMENA
Phil joined Unilever in 1976 directly from school and has spent a broad career in finance, starting in Lever UK in Kingston where he qualified as an accountant.Phil spent 3 years in Rotterdam with the European Ice Cream Region and North America Foods Region in Group Management Accountant roles before moving back to London in 1993 to a broader Commercial Officer role for Central Asia and Middle East Region.
Phil has been working on Lipton RTD Tea for the last 15 years, initially as a Category Director / VP Finance in a specialist ‘Soft Drink’ team building experience in franchise negotiations and managing partnership relationships.
Phil successfully led the creation of new strategic partnerships in Japan and Eastern Europe and then as a member of a small team, the formation of the PLI JV.
After championing and leading the 2nd phase of territories transferred to the PLI JV in 2008 he was appointed VP Finance / CFO in the PLI JV and migrated the tax residency of the JV to Switzerland. In 2015 Phil moved to Dubai and since then he is performing the role of General Manager for AMENA.
Chief Financial Officer
Erol Baysal
Chief Financial Officer
Erol joined Unilever in 1991. He has worked in several countries and across various finance functions. Prior to his current role in Refreshment he was CFO for Unilever France, following a role in Mergers and Acquisitions.
Erol brings a wealth of critical experience that will help to further transform our RTD Tea business and make this an even more dynamic and successful place to work.
Erol likes Formula 1 and football, primarily as a fan. Head of R&D and Supply Chain
Zbigniew Lewicki
Head of R&D and Supply Chain
Zbigniew started his career in Unilever in 1997 and worked in various global and regional roles across all Unilever Foods Categories. He established three new Regional Innovation Centres in D&E markets and led Global Centre of Excellence in Germany. He was involved in setting the foundation for ‘Chefmanship’ capability of Unilever Foods and Food Solutions businesses.
In his recent assignment as Head of R&D for NAMET-RUB he has led transformation of Tea Manufacturing in Turkey.
Zbigniew graduated from University of Life Sciences in Poznan and extended his business curriculum through an MBA at Nottingham Trent University.
He is married and a father of two daughters aged 8 and 13.
He loves great food, cooking and culinary travels balancing those with fair amount of running and other sports.