Vivek Sankaran

Vivek Sankaran is President and Chief Executive Officer of Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI). Albertsons is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with a strong local presence and national scale, and also manufactures and processes some of the food it sells. He has been serving as the CEO since April 2019.

Earlier, Sankaran served as CEO of PepsiCo Foods North America. Prior to that, he served as the company's president and chief operating officer. Over his ten-year career at PepsiCo, in addition to leading Frito-Lay, Sankaran also served as the chief commercial officer for PepsiCo North America, Chief Customer Officer of Frito-Lay, and as the Senior Vice President of Strategy for PepsiCo.

Before joining PepsiCo in 2009, Sankaran was a partner at McKinsey and Company, where he served various Fortune 100 companies. He co-led the firm’s North American purchasing and supply management practice and was on the leadership team of the North American retail practice.

Sankaran has an MBA from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in manufacturing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.