Kaushik Mitra is the Vice President & CFO at PepsiCo India. With over 30 years of experience, he was in multiple roles across several industries and companies such as RPG group, Tata group, GE, Reckitt Benckiser, and PepsiCo.

At PepsiCo, Kaushik is responsible for overseeing financials for PepsiCo’s Foods, Beverages and Nutrition business in India and South Asia. He has been associated with PepsiCo for past 23 years and donning many hats since then. He was actively involved across PepsiCo’s foods and beverages operating businesses in India, Planning and Strategy in Asia-Middle East-Africa sector based in Dubai.

Adding on to his roles and responsibilities, he has also served as CFO at Suntory PepsiCo JV, Vietnam and Vice President & CFO at PepsiCo Asia Pacific Region, based in Hongkong.

Over the past thirty years, Kaushik has lived and worked in Kolkata, Delhi, Gurgaon, Chennai, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong.

Kaushik has been a strong supporter of the D&I agenda in PepsiCo increasing women representation in his roles in South East Asia and now in the India Finance Leadership team and as a speaker on the Break Ceiling touch the sky forum.

Kaushik is an active contributor to the industry and has been authoring articles in IMA CFO Connect magazine. Besides that, he is a regular speaker at Economist events in Singapore. Currently he speaks at Universities, Management and Technology institutes on leadership lessons from the Corporate world.

In addition, he has also authored two fiction novels under the “Crossing over” trilogy, books that captures the aspirations, emotions and passions of a post-liberalisation middle-class India.

Kaushik is an alumni of St. Xavier’s Kolkata, an MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata and a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Kaushik is a keen musician with his own YouTube channel and enjoys travel, reading and writing. Kaushik lives in Gurugram with his wife Reetika and they have a twenty four year old son Arjun.