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Christopher A. Sinclair is an American businessman. He is the current Chairman of the Executive Committee of Mattel, Inc., the world's largest toy company. He is the former Chariman and CEO of Pepsi-Cola and the former executive chairman and CEO of Cambridge Solutions

Cambridge Solutions

Cambridge Solutions is a leading Business Process Outsourcing provider in the information technology industry.Cambridge Solutions' U.S. headquarters is in Greenwich, Connecticut and its India headquarters is in Bangalore, India. It employs over 4,500 people in 62 worldwide locations...

Ltd. the second largest BPO/IT company in the world. He is the founder and chairman of Scandent Group, the privately owned holding company which owns Cambridge Solutions Ltd.

Scandent Group owners and investors include: Sinclair, Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Edgar Miles Bronfman is a Canadian businessman. He is a member of the Bronfman family.-Biography:Bronfman is the son of Samuel Bronfman, the founder of Distillers Corporation Limited, who purchased Seagram's in 1928...

(fmr. chairman of Vivendi Universal and Seagram Company Ltd.), Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. , is the Chairman of Warner Music Group. He previously served as CEO of the company from 2004 to 2011. In May, 2011, the sale of WMG was announced; Bronfman would continued as CEO in the transaction. In August 2011, he became Chairman of the company as Stephen Cooper...

(CEO of Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...

), Philip H. Geier, Jr. (fmr. chairman of The Interpublic Group of Companies

Interpublic Group of Companies

The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. is one of the "big four" global advertising holding companies . Headquartered in New York City, it has 41,000 employees and reported full−year revenues of US$6.5 billion for 2010...

, Inc.)

Background

Sinclair was born in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, and spent his childhood in Bombay

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, and was educated at the Kodaikanal International School

Kodaikanal International School

Kodaikanal International School is a co-educational independent residential school offering education for grades P-12. It is located on in Kodaikanal, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, South India. Kodaikanal is a hill station at in the Palani Hills, north-west of Madurai.Early alumni of KIS include US...

(http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/372265.cms). Sinclair's father was president of Esso Oil (now Exxon Mobil)'s international operations. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...

with a bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

in marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

, and he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega

Alpha Tau Omega

Alpha Tau Omega is a secret American leadership and social fraternity.The Fraternity has more than 250 active and inactive chapters, more than 200,000 initiates, and over 7,000 active undergraduate members. The 200,000th member was initiated in early 2009...

. Sinclair went on to receive an MBA

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

from the Tuck School of Business

Tuck School of Business

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States...

at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

in 1973.

Business career

Sinclair spent 20 years at PepsiCo

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

. In 1989, at the age of 38, he became CEO of Pepsi International, making him the youngest executive in company history.(http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFDE1639F93BA1575AC0A96F948260) Sinclair was promoted in 1993 to run worldwide operations for the $40 billion food and beverage maker.

Sinclair directed Pepsi's entry into the Indian market, and recruited Pepsi's current chief executive officer Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-born American business executive. She is the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food & beverage business in the world ....

(). As an example of his ambition, Sinclair told Fortune magazine in 1994, "If Coke starts growing 8%, we'll do 10% or 12%." (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985052-1,00.html) He predicted non-U.S. cola sales of $5 billion by 1995, and exceeded his goal. Sinclair retired as CEO of PepsiCo

PepsiCo

and the board of directors in 1996 at the age of 45, due to frequent travel and a desire to spend more time with his family.

Since his tenure at PepsiCo

PepsiCo

, Sinclair has served as CEO of Quality Food Centers, Inc.(http://sec.edgar-online.com/1997/02/20/00/0000912057-97-006336/Section15.asp) (NYSE), a U.S. west coast supermarket chain backed by billionaire Samuel Zell

Samuel Zell

Samuel "Sam" Zell is a U.S. business magnate. He is Chairman of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C. , a private, entrepreneurial investment firm he founded more than 40 years ago...

's Equity Group. After 18-months, Quality Food expanded rapidly and was successfully sold to Fred Meyer

Fred Meyer

Fred Meyer, Inc., is a chain of hypermarkets founded in 1922 in Portland, Oregon, by Fred G. Meyer. The company was one of the pioneers of one-stop shopping, eventually combining a complete grocery supermarket with a drugstore, clothing store, shoe store, fine jewelers, home decor store, home...

, Inc., for $1.3 billion in 1998. Sinclair helped orchestrate the deal and was a large shareholder. Fred Meyer

Fred Meyer

is now owned by The Kroger Co.

More recently, Sinclair led the financial restructuring of Caribiner International, Inc. (NYSE) as chairman and CEO of this Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus, LLC is an American private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil and Asia. It has been a private equity investor since 1966...

sponsored global business communications company. As well, he has served as a partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, LP

Pegasus Capital Advisors

Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P. is a private equity investment firm founded in 1995 by former co-founder of Apollo Management and Drexel Burnham Lambert lawyer, Craig Cogut. Cogut is a Managing Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P...

, a private equity firm and is a current operating partner at Tri-Artisan Partners, LLC, a New York-based merchant bank.

Sinclair currently serves as a board member of numerous public and private companies, including: Cambridge Soultions Ltd., Scandent Group Holdings, Tri-Artisan Acquisition Corp., and Mattel, Inc., where he serves on the Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Advisory board of The Water Initiative, Inc. and BioVittoria, a calorie-free sweetener company based in New Zealand. Sinclair is a former director of Foot Locker, Inc., eMerge Interactive, Inc., F.W. Woolworth Company, Merisant Company, PepsiCo, Inc., and Perdue Farms, Inc. He has served as a trustee at Brunswick School, Vermont Academy

Vermont Academy

Vermont Academy is an American coeducational boarding/day school and college preparatory school for grades nine through twelve and also offers acceptance for students seeking a post-graduate year. Founded in 1876, it is located in Saxtons River, Vermont. The school is coeducational, and...

, on the Board of Overseers at the Tuck School of Business

Tuck School of Business

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States...

, and on the Parents' Boards at Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...

and Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

. Sinclair, along with the PepsiCo Foundation has given more than $1 million to Dartmouth College, where he endowed a scholarship and the College named a dining hall in his honor. (http://books.google.com/books?id=vsq5ZpQy028C&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=%22christopher+sinclair%22+tuck&source=web&ots=UtAfKRujka&sig=ViJGjK6SpWyYt7w-1Ia8N0fcRW8)

Personal

Sinclair, and his wife Margaret, reside in Greenwich, Connecticut

Greenwich, Connecticut

Greenwich is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 61,171. It is home to many hedge funds and other financial service companies. Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut and is 38+ minutes ...

and Palm Beach, Florida

Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth...

(http://www.forbes.com/realestate/2005/02/18/cx_sc_0218movers_ls.html). Margaret is the President of the Breast Cancer Alliance

Breast Cancer Alliance

The Breast Cancer Alliance is currently the fourth largest non-profit, private funding provider to breast cancer research in the United States. It was founded in 1996 by Mary Waterman, and its headquarters are in Greenwich, CT....

. (http://www.breastcanceralliance.org/article/view/21309/1/3792)

External links

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