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.
Not really. Trump is Trump. He is acting like a CEO not a strong man
I think he’s engaged in a very effective and time-tested strategy of “co-opting.” When you embrace your critics, ask them to serve in some advisory capacity to serve on a board, or forum, or study group, you quite effectively deceive them into thinking they are on the inside and able to get the change they want. Their ego is stroked and they start defending the person or the policy they once opposed. Rational? If my enemy seeks my opinion and advice, they can’t be ALL bad...right? I’ve seen this co-opting strategy play out in local and state government. It really is a beautiful way to tamp down opposition and silence the most vocal critics.
Maybe Trump is trying to control dissent while paying attention to the legitimate parts of it.
It also throws the anti-Trump movement into further disrepute, as many of the prominent voices from that movement are now traipsing into Trump Tower to be part of the new administration.
Kill them with kindness. This is doubtless part of what made Donald Trump such a great negotiator. If he can’t find the win, he’ll make one, if the deal is worth it.
“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.”
I disagree. There may be times where it is important to find out her opinion so as to do the opposite. Reagan did that!
I’d rather them go from anti-Trump to pro-Trump than remain anti-Trump, wouldn’t you?
What’s the point of carrying these grudges? Nothing we say or think is going to change the trajectory of their business anywhere near as much as what Trump says and thinks. So we are actually best served by trusting him to create relationships with friends and enemies alike, and just look at the results. If his strategy fails, then you can criticize all you want, but until then it’s kinda pointless.
“I thought she was anti Trump. What happened?”
Well, she was, but now she is hitched to the Trump wagon and is helping to pull the load, and if she return to work against his policies he will just discredit her so bad she will be hunting a hole to hide in,, but that is just how I think, LOL
“Are we safe?” No, because nobody is ever “safe” and there is no such thing as being safe. Life is a series of challenges for absolutely everybody and this is by design and it is a good thing. A safe story is a boring and pointless story. Anything can happen to anyone at any moment. Get over the fairy tale, ma’am.
At least she is okay with President Trump. I’m not a Pepsi fan...loves Foxon Park or Hosmer Mountain myself.
Fortunately, Trump doesn’t share that purist approach to people who don’t agree with him on every issue
PepsiCo - supports LGBTWHATEVERS, directly funds PP and selling of baby body parts and spewed hatred of Trump.
Please, don’t tell me Trump has been drinking the Kool-Aid already.
PepsiCo has been on my ban list for years and it will remain on it.
“I thought she was anti Trump. What happened?”
She was, but now she is hitched to the Trump wagon and is helping to pull the load, and if she goes back to work against him, she will just be shunted to a dead end track
This is called getting your opponents to support you. Liberals don’t refuse a US president’s invitation, even when they don’t to. Liberals are sycophantic that way.
There are many reasons to boycott PepsiCo.
We don’t buy their processed junk foods and sugar loaded drinks for health reasons.
As I have posted before. one of the great things about being an American, so far, is the right to say no thank you to whatever.
I agree, if their actions and decisions show they are on Trump’s/our side.
My mother was born in the Show me State, and like her I believe people have changed when they show me.
Maybe Trump sees this as a chance to win her over. you know, to show her that the Reps are really not so bad. Maybe Nooyi is a Gem because she thinks that the Reps are too religiously exclusive.
I don’t remove companies from my boycott list until they change management or in the case of movie stars die.
Sure, everyone is safe until a jihadi blows them up.
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