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Chairman of the Board = Chairman of the Board      Chair = Chair     Committee Member = Member   Independent Director = Independent Director
  Audit Management Resources and Compensation Affiliated Transaction Governance‚ Finance and Nominating
Herbert M. Baum Member of Audit Committee Member of Management 
Resources and 
Compensation Committee    
Richard G. Cline   Committee Chair for Management 
Resources and 
Compensation Committee Member of Affiliated 
Transaction Committee Member of Governance‚ Finance and Nominating Committee
Richard G. Cline Chairman, Hawthorne Investors, Inc.
Elected 1987

Mr. Cline, 74, served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Nicor Inc. beginning in 1985, and became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in 1986. He retired as Chief Executive Officer in May 1995 and continued to serve as Chairman until his retirement from the company at the end of 1995. Prior to joining Nicor, Mr. Cline was an executive of Jewel Companies, Inc. for 22 years, becoming Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer in 1984. He is also Chairman of Hawthorne Investors, Inc., a private management advisory and investment firm he founded in 1996. Additionally, he has served as a director of Ryerson, Inc., Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of The Northern Funds, The Northern Institutional Funds and The Northern Multi-Manager Funds and he is a past chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Cline was Chairman of Hussmann International, Inc. Mr. Cline is a director emeritus and past president of the University of Illinois Foundation.

Michael J. Corliss Member of Audit Committee Member of Management 
Resources and 
Compensation Committee    
Pierre S. du Pont Member of Audit Committee   Member of Affiliated 
Transaction Committee Committee Chair for Governance‚ Finance and Nominating Committee
Archie R. Dykes   Member of Management 
Resources and 
Compensation Committee Committee Chair for Affiliated 
Transaction Committee Member of Governance‚ Finance and Nominating Committee
Jarobin Gilbert, Jr. Committee Chair for Audit Committee     Member of Governance‚ Finance and Nominating Committee
James R. Kackley Member of Audit Committee Member of Management 
Resources and 
Compensation Committee    
Matthew M. McKenna Member of Audit Committee     Member of Governance‚ Finance and Nominating Committee
Robert C. Pohlad        
Deborah E. Powell M.D.   Member of Management 
Resources and 
Compensation Committee   Member of Governance‚ Finance and Nominating Committee

Contact the Board

You can contact PepsiAmericas, Inc.'s Board of Directors to provide comments, to report concerns, or to ask a question, at the following address.

Corporate Secretary
PepsiAmericas, Inc.
4000 RBC Plaza
Minneapolis, MN 55402
United States

You may submit your concern anonymously or confidentially by postal mail. You may also indicate whether you are a shareholder, customer, supplier, or other interested party.

Communications are distributed to the Board, or to any individual directors as appropriate, depending on the facts and circumstances outlined in the communication. In that regard, the PepsiAmericas, Inc. board of directors has requested that certain items which are unrelated to the duties and responsibilities of the board should be excluded, such as:

  • Product complaints
  • Product inquiries
  • New product suggestions
  • Resumes and other forms of job inquiries
  • Surveys
  • Business solicitations or advertisements

In addition, material that is unduly hostile, threatening, illegal or similarly unsuitable will be excluded, with the provision that any communication that is filtered out must be made available to any non-management director upon request.