Nooyi, only the fifth person to run PepsiCo and a dark - horse choice — a woman, a foreigner, a onetime strategy consultant — has outlasted all but one of her predecessors and, at least for now,
a powerful shareholder activist.
A tech - savvy and surefooted negotiator, Cohn has since led more than 30
shareholder campaigns against the likes of Compuware, BMC Software, and lately EMC, becoming one of the most
powerful and effective
activists in the finance industry.