Current/ previous positions: President, North America, ETi S.p.A (Turkiye)

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umranbeba/

BIOGRAPHY

Umran Beba is President, Americas at ETİ and an Executive Board Member of TRUBAR as of October 2026. She also serves as Senior Advisor at August Leadership, where she was a Partner from June 2020 through September 2026, advising on executive search, leadership, and culture.

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 distinct 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.

Umran Beba is the co-Founder of the Beba Innovation and Entrepreneurship Foundation since 2018. She was an Independent Non-Executive Board Director in Bakkavor Group plc. for more than 5 years and CALBEE Inc for 5 years. She is the co-Vice Chair in the board of International Youth Foundation and an Advisory Board member of Mercy University Business School. She joined the board of BIS Integrated Solutions in Turkiye in 2023. She is the Leader of TÜSİAD New York Network Education Committee.

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 in May 2022. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her family.

Recognition & Thought Leadership

• Featured multiple times in Fortune magazine’s global list of the Most Powerful Women in Business.
• Named one of “the greatest living business minds of Turkey” by Forbes. 
• Recipient of prestigious leadership and diversity awards, including global inspiring women honors and internal legacy awards. 
• Contributor to leadership and diversity discourse through books, panel discussions, and strategic thought leadership on inclusive value creation.