NEW YORK (Diya TV) — PepsiCo’s chief executive Indra Nooyi, as well as the CEOs from Tesla and Uber, will now be offering their expertise to President-elect Donald Trump.
Nooyi, along with Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick, were added to Trump’s Strategic and Policy forum, the billionaire real estate mogul announced Wednesday.
Known less formally as the President-elect’s business-advisory group, is already includes Mary Barra of General Motors, J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon and Disney’s Bob Iger. “America has the most innovative and vibrant companies in the world, and the pioneering CEOs joining this Forum today are at the top of their fields,” Trump said in a press release. “My administration is going to work together with the private sector to improve the business climate and make it attractive for firms to create new jobs across the United States from Silicon Valley to the heartland.”
However, Nooyi, 61, is the only Indian-American member of the 19-person committee. It is headed by Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the investment company Blackstone.
Nooyi is the head of a multinational firm with an annual revenue of $63 billion that employs 110,000 people. She graduated from Madras Christian College in Chennai and has management degrees from the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata and Yale University. Reports emerged shortly after the election that Nooyi had made incendiary, anti-Trump comments, which led to a massive online boycott of Pepsi products. Nooyi never publicly backed either candidate during the election.
While the reports of Nooyi’s alleged comments turned out to be false, Musk and Kalanick were much less afraid to hide their comments of the Republican.
In November, Musk told CNBC that Trump “was not the right guy” for the White House, adding that “he doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.” And last October, Kalanick told an audience of college students that he would “move to China if Donald Trump wins,” according to the Washington Post.
