July 16/Healthcare Finance, Tax & Law Weekly -- PepsiCo announced the appointment of Jonathan McIntyre, Ph.D., to the newly created position of senior vice president, PepsiCo R&D Global Beverages, reporting to Mehmood Khan, chief scientific officer, and Massimo d'Amore, chief executive officer, PepsiCo Americas Beverages.
As PepsiCo continues to accelerate the innovation in its global beverage business, McIntyre will lead the R&D beverage transformation agenda worldwide. To meet the ever-changing demands of consumers and retail customers, McIntyre will be responsible for developing products with "real functional and natural advantages" while continuing to apply credible science to enhance the portfolio of PepsiCo's beverage brands. Most recently, PepsiCo released naturally sweetened, zero calorie variants of SoBe Life Water using the Stevia root.