Posted on 12/14/2016 8:50:47 AM PST by Jyotishi
WASHINGTON: Indian-American PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has joined Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum that aims to assist the president-elect in implementing his economic agenda, the presidential transition team said on Wednesday.
Chennai-born Nooyi, 61, is the only Indian-origin executive in the 19-member President's Strategic and Policy Forum, which was first announced early this week. Three new members were also announced in addition to the current 16.
The other corporate bigwigs to join the forum are Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and SpaceX and Tesla chairman Elon Musk.
The forum, composed of some of America's most highly respected and successful business leaders, will meet with the president frequently to share their specific experience and knowledge as the president implements his economic agenda, a media release said adding the forum will be chaired by Stephen A Schwarzman, chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone.
"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.
"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," he said.
According to the presidential transition team, members of the forum will be charged with providing their individual views to the president -- informed by their unique vantage points in the private sector -- on how government policy impacts economic growth, job creation and productivity.
"The forum is designed to provide direct input to the president from many of the best and brightest in the business world in a frank, non-bureaucratic and non-partisan manner," the media release said.
As chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, Nooyi heads a company that has more than $63 billion in annual net revenue, and more than $35 billion in the US alone.
PepsiCo is the largest US food and beverage company with about 1,10,000 employees and 100 plants across the country.
During the general election, Nooyi was a known supporter of Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
After Trump's victory she said that Clinton's defeat+ in the election has left her daughters, gay workers, employees and non-whites devastated as there was "serious concern" among them about their safety in the US with Trump as president.
"I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees. They were all in mourning. Our employees were all crying. The question that they are asking, especially those who are not white - 'Are we safe', women are asking 'Are we safe', LGBT people are asking 'Are we safe'," she said at a New York conference on November 10.
At the same time she congratulated Trump on his victory.
"The process of democracy happened, we just have to let life go on. We have to come together and life has to go on," she said.
Indian-Americans may have supported Trump, but this POS didn't. She is a libtard nitwit of the highest order, and will bring no value to any substantive discusssion or issue.
This looks like Trump’s effort to kiss and make up. It does not always work, but if it doesn’t, it leaves the moral onus clearly and squarely on the one who refused to make up. I’m fine with this, as long as Trump retains ultimate ownership of his decisions, and none of these people become a “power behind the throne.”
I’m not removing them from my list.
But at least she sells soft drinks by the seashore.
It’s really quite normal.
It’s funny though, that they ALL thought H! was going to win by a landslide, and they could mock and vilify Trump all they wanted to with impunity.
Now that he’s won, and reality has set in, they have discovered that they have been kissing the wrong butt for years. They still have to answer to their stockholders, keep profits up and make some money in the real world.................
The Wife and I discussed it many times. If Trump were to squeak through, we were confident he would nominate/hire the most competent people. Talk about a wish come true. I don't remember any PE ever hitting the ground running like this man.
It's like a black cloud hanging over my heart that has given way to the sunshine of hope for my Country. I'm sure he won't be able to do everything he promised (think McCain, Graham, etc.), but the promise of America is at least back on track.
Trump has her as an advisor so that he can do the opposite of everything she suggests.
“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,” he said.
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One of my big concerns about Trump was that he was going to ignore the tech sector like GWB. However it looks like he’s going to do well. He wants what’s best for America, especially the people outside of government, the exact opposite of GWB who reestablished Big Corrupt Government.
Not yet. Let her prove herself. If she becomes a Trump supporter and cheerleader, I can conditionally accept her.
She supported Hillary and is a big liberal.
Bad move, unless he’s intending on ‘keeping his enemies closer’.
IIRC....Right after the election....Didn’t she badmouth Trump AND the people who elected him as a bunch of retards, unworthy of the right to vote, in so many words? I recall a number of FReepers voiced a buycott of Pepsi products over that. ?????
[What is the writer implying, here? How many “Indian-origin” people should be in the forum?]
The writer (hack) is implying that Trump’s council is not “diverse” enough....
Because like everything in PC world, people should be hired based on their race, not their capabilities.
Exactly. She may have been anti-Trump, but as CEO of Pepsi, she brings much business acumen to the table of economic advisors. Trump will listen and make his own decisions. With all his other nominations/hires, I am beginning to trust this man without doubt. I need to read his book, "Art of the Deal".
This dope claimed that she was afraid for her daughters due to Trump’s election in a speech after the election. Now she’s on his advisory council. If she really was afraid of Trump, she wouldn’t be his advisor. But the reality is that she was never afraid of Trump and was just spouting meaningless Liberal talking points in her speech that she really didn’t believe. I guess it just goes to show how clichéd and divorced from reality Liberal talking points are.
An election.
Craven crawling simpering sycophants trying to save their crony pie pieces...just like Google trying to hire conservative lobbyists.
Soooo disgusted with the rampant corruption...
She’s wallpaper..............
I wouldn’t trust that beotch as far as I could throw her fat arse, which isn’t very far. She needs to join the boycott and stop eating and drinking all that Pepsi crap. That stuff will kill you!
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