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Umran Beba works as a partner at August Leadership based in NY as a leadership and diversity consultant. She is the co-Founder of the Beba Innovation and Entrepreneurship Foundation since 2018. She is an Independent Non-Executive Board Director in Bakkavor Group plc., board member in BIS Integrated Solutions based in Turkiye and operating in Turkiye and Europe, and co-Vice Chair in the board of International Youth Foundation. She is an Advisory Board member of Mercy College Business School.She is an experienced senior business executive with general management, talent, and diversity background. Close to 35 years of experience in Consumer Goods Industry where 25 years was with PepsiCo in four different locations namely Istanbul, Hong Kong, Dubai, and New York. She was the Asia Pacific President of PepsiCo following president and general management roles in Southeast Europe, East Mediterranean /Middle East, and Türkiye. She has been in Chief HR Officer and Chief Diversity Officer roles in her career and managed several transformation projects, as well as executive recruitment, talent pipeline building, culture shaping, mentoring, coaching, diversity, and inclusion agenda setting and execution and human capital management initiatives. She has been a board member at Calbee Snacks in Japan during 2010-2015. This was a public company traded at Tokyo Stock exchange.She has launched a book called Leaders with Purpose in Turkish (Deger Yaratan Liderler) with her co-author Arzu Cekirge Paksoy in February 2022.She is a native of Turkiye and earned her MBA and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. She has received Honorary Doctorate degree in Commercial Science from Mercy College, NY, USA in May 2022. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her family.
