Rocco Papalia
Mr. Rocco Papalia is Senior Vice President of PepsiCo Advanced Research. He has responsibility for leading the strategic initiative to create new processing and packaging platforms for future growth in beverages and foods.
Prior to this, he was the Senior Vice President of Research & Development for Frito-Lay North America. He assumed this role in 1996 and had responsibility for Product, Process and Package Innovation as well as Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Regulatory Affairs and Nutrition.
He received a Chemical Engineering degree from Princeton University in 1982. He began his Consumer Packaged Goods career in Cincinnati with Procter & Gamble’s Beauty Care Division. He joined Frito-Lay, Inc. in 1989.
