Christine Tammara

Senior Vice President and Controller PepsiCo

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Christine Tammara has been Senior Vice President and Controller of PepsiCo since May 2025, the company’s principal accounting officer. She oversees global financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley processes, division controllership and other control functions including shared services, and works closely with the audit committee of the board. She joined PepsiCo in 2007 and has spent her career there in its control function, setting accounting policy as assistant controller, leading internal audit as general auditor, and then serving as controller of PepsiCo Beverages North America. Earlier she worked in external reporting at Reader’s Digest and as an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has worked on both sides of the audit, as external auditor and as head of internal audit, before taking charge of the books.

Career Highlights

• Senior Vice President and Controller of PepsiCo since May 2025.
• Senior Vice President, Controller, PepsiCo Beverages North America, 2023 to 2025.
• Senior Vice President and General Auditor, 2021 to 2023.
• Vice President and Assistant Controller, Technical Accounting and Policy, 2016 to 2021.

Professional Journey

Tammara earned a bachelor’s degree with a major in economics and accounting at the College of the Holy Cross and is a certified public accountant. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, rising to audit manager, and then worked in external reporting at The Reader’s Digest Association as associate director.

She joined PepsiCo in 2007 and held a succession of roles in its corporate control function. From 2016 to 2021 she was vice president and assistant controller for technical accounting and policy, responsible for accounting policy and the Sarbanes-Oxley agenda and for the control teams in global procurement, information technology and the global groups. PepsiCo says she oversaw the accounting for multi-billion-dollar acquisitions and the global adoption of new accounting standards.

From February 2021 to June 2023 she was senior vice president and general auditor, leading internal audit and reporting to the audit committee, and from June 2023 she was senior vice president and controller of PepsiCo Beverages North America, running that sector’s control agenda and financial reporting.

In May 2025 she became senior vice president and controller of PepsiCo and its principal accounting officer, and she is listed among its executive officers in the 2025 annual report. PepsiCo sells food and beverages in more than 200 countries and territories through six reportable segments and employed about 306,000 people at the end of 2025, according to its annual report. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPAs. She has spent nearly two decades at PepsiCo, all of it in finance and control.

Education

College of the Holy Cross

Bachelor of Arts, Economics-Accounting