Tim E. Minges

Director at Barry Callebaut Group

Tim Minges (1958) spent his entire career in the food industry, including 32 years at PepsiCo before retiring in 2016. Prior to retirement, Tim Minges was Executive Vice President Chief Customer Officer, PepsiCo North America Beverages, and a member of PepsiCo’s Executive Committee. Prior to 2013, he was President and CEO of PepsiCo’s operations in Greater China and President of PepsiCo Foods Asia Pacific. Prior to PepsiCo, Tim Minges worked as a CPA at Alexander Grant.

Tim Minges sat on a variety of public company boards at PepsiCo, including Calbee Foods Japan, Pepsi-Cola Philippines and Serm Suk Thailand as well as the Board of the North American Coffee Partnership (a PepsiCo joint venture with Starbucks).

Tim Minges is engaged as an early stage investor in a variety of food and beverage startups in America and co- founder and Board member of Taokaenoi USA, a joint venture with Thailand’s leading seaweed snack brand. Tim Minges is also a Board member of Master Kong (Tingyi) Beverages, China’s largest beverage company.

Tim Minges holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and has completed the PepsiCo Executive Development Program at Yale School of Management.

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