Saakshi Verma Menon is Chief Marketing Officer, Foods at PepsiCo India, where she leads one of the company’s most strategically important portfolios, driving brand growth, innovation, and integrated communications across the highly competitive and culturally diverse geography. She is responsible for shaping long-term brand strategy, accelerating category growth, and building consumer-centric platforms that connect business performance with cultural relevance.

Over a career spanning more than two decades, Saakshi has led brand transformation and growth agendas across global consumer businesses, building a track record in brand launches, portfolio reinvention, and category creation. She has consistently operated at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and execution -designing marketing systems that scale across markets while staying deeply rooted in consumer insight.

Her leadership journey includes senior roles across PepsiCo, Kimberly-Clark, Uber, The Coca-Cola Company, and Colgate-Palmolive, where she led end-to-end brand strategy, creative development, and market-facing innovation across diverse categories and geographies.

Saakshi has been recognized among Campaign Asia-Pacific Top Marketers 2023, BW Businessworld Top Marketers (2023, 2024), and featured in BW Businessworld’s Most Influential Women 2025 list, reflecting sustained industry impact and leadership influence. She also served on the jury for The Drum Awards 2025, evaluating work that sets new benchmarks in creativity, effectiveness, and craft.

As a Cannes Lions jury member, she brings a sharp, contemporary perspective on what makes ideas truly travel -combining cultural insight, strategic clarity, and measurable business impact to evaluate work that defines the future of marketing.