Marie Gallagher

Biography

Marie Gallagher is Senior Vice President and Controller of PepsiCo. As PepsiCo’s Chief Accounting Officer, Marie is responsible for PepsiCo’s global financial reporting and SOX processes, overseeing a staff of over 1,000 control employees. Marie sets the agenda for PepsiCo’s Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Marie also guides PepsiCo’s division controllers and their organizations and other corporate departments with business issues. Marie is currently leading PepsiCo’s finance transformation effort. She played a key role in the integration of the recent acquisitions of Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), PepsiAmericas (PAS) and Wimm-Bill-Dann, a Russian dairy company. Marie is a co-chair of PepsiCo’s Corporate Inclusion Council. She is also the New York Mosaic lead, which is PepsiCo’s African American Network. Marie also annually leads a PepsiCo-sponsored Continuing Professional Education program for 300 consumer product company finance professionals. In addition, Marie sponsors a consumer products industry-wide summit, where emerging issues are discussed with peer company controllers and assistant controllers. Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2005, Marie served as Assistant Controller of Altria Corporate Services, Inc., where she was part of the team that led the Nabisco acquisition and the Kraft IPO. Marie joined Altria (then Philip Morris) in 1992. During her tenure at Altria, she also led their shared services initiatives. Prior to that, Marie was a Senior Manager at Coopers & Lybrand in the New York office, where her clients included Goldman Sachs and Altria. Marie led discussions on various issues with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Altria. Marie is a certified public accountant and has a B.B.A. in accounting from Pace University. Marie is based in Purchase, N.Y. Affiliations, Appointments and Awards: Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Member, American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants Member, Financial Executives International (Committee on Corporate Reporting) Member, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Board of Directors, Junior Achievement of the Lower Hudson Valley Board of Directors, the Cottage in Darien Former Board of Director, Quorum Federal Credit Union Board of Directors, Manhattan Theatre Club YWCA New York City Academy of Women Inductee - 2010

Research Interest

food process