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2011 Commencement Speaker Announced

by Betsy Chapman

Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, will deliver Wake Forest University’s 2011 commencement address on May 16.

The commencement ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. on Hearn Plaza (The Quad). The ceremony is reserved for graduates and their guests and is not open to the general public.

Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and served as president and chief financial officer before succeeding Wake Forest’s current dean of business, Steve Reinemund, as CEO in 2006.  With nearly $60 billion in annualized revenue, PepsiCo employs 285,000 people worldwide.

“When she visited campus two years ago, Indra wowed students with her insight and energy,” said Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch. “She has developed a reputation at PepsiCo for challenging her senior executives even as she reaches out to their families with news and congratulations, making her the perfect speaker as students and their families gather to recognize this landmark occasion.”

Read more about her visit to campus in 2009 as well as the full story on Commencement.

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