Massimo d'Amore
Massimo F. d'Amore is Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Beverages Americas, PepsiCo's beverage brand company for the Americas, which focuses on the consumer through cutting-edge beverage innovation, R&D and marketing.
PepsiCo Beverages Americas has a beverage portfolio including Pepsi-Cola North America, Gatorade, Tropicana, all of PepsiCo's Latin American beverage businesses and PepsiCo's North America Food Service division. Massimo has led the beverage brand business for the Americas since November 2007.
Since 1995, Mr. d'Amore has held several positions within PepsiCo, including Executive Vice President, Commercial for PepsiCo International; President, Latin America Region; and SVP, Corporate Strategy & Development for PepsiCo. Mr. d'Amore was also Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Pepsi-Cola International in addition to Business Unit General Manager, Turkey/Central Asia.
Prior to PepsiCo, Mr. d'Amore had a 15-year international career with Procter & Gamble in Operations, Marketing and General Management in Europe and North Africa.
Mr. d'Amore is an engineering graduate from the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne, where he also earned a Master of Science Degree in Materials Science and a post Graduate Degree in Developing Countries. He is on the Board of Directors and Steering Committee for Groupe d'Ouchy.
He was recently awarded a citation by the New York State Assembly for receiving the Burke Award, which acknowledged his sponsorship of PepsiCo's employee diversity network that helps cultivate a more inclusive environment for people with different abilities. In 2009 he was honored by the National Italian American Foundation with its Business Leader of the Year Award.
Mr. d'Amore is a native of Italy. He is fluent in English, Italian and French and has a working command of Spanish and German.
Mr. d'Amore is based in Purchase, New York.
