Marie Gallagher

Marie Gallagher is Senior Vice President and Controller of PepsiCo. As PepsiCo’s Chief Accounting Officer, Marie is responsible for PepsiCo’s global financial reporting and SOX processes, overseeing a staff of over 1,000 control employees. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world, and generated more than $64 billion in net revenue in 2018, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Marie sets the agenda for PepsiCo’s Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Marie also guides PepsiCo’s division controllers and their organizations and other corporate departments with business issues. Marie is currently leading PepsiCo’s finance transformation effort. She played a key role in the integration of acquisitions, including Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), PepsiAmericas (PAS) and Wimm-Bill-Dann, a Russian dairy company. Marie is a co-chair of PepsiCo’s Corporate Inclusion Council and the New York lead for Mosaic, PepsiCo’s African American Network. Marie also annually leads a PepsiCo-sponsored Continuing Professional Education program for 300 consumer product company finance professionals. In addition, Marie sponsors a consumer products industry-wide summit, where emerging issues are discussed with peer company controllers and assistant controllers.

Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2005, Marie served as Assistant Controller of Altria Corporate Services, Inc., where she was part of the team that led the Nabisco acquisition and the Kraft IPO. Marie joined Altria (then Philip Morris) in 1992. During her tenure at Altria, she also led their shared services initiatives. Prior to that, Marie was a Senior Manager at Coopers & Lybrand in the New York office, where her clients included Goldman Sachs and Altria. Marie led discussions on various issues with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Altria.

Marie is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants, Financial Executives International, and New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. She is on the Board of Directors for the Junior Achievement of the Lower Hudson Valley, the Cottage in Darien, and the Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as a former Board of Directors member for Quorum Federal Credit Union. Marie is a YWCA New York City Academy of Women Inductee (2010).

Marie is a certified public accountant and has a B.B.A. in accounting from Pace University.

Marie is based in Purchase, N.Y.