Women have made a lot of progress in the legal and corporate worlds, Maura Abeln Smith says, but they’re still having trouble getting to the top. That hasn’t been a problem for Smith herself. In May she became the new legal chief at PepsiCo, Inc., her fourth GC gig in two decades. She’s been successful, she says, because she’s had some extraordinary opportunities—key among them, being one of the first women to win a Rhodes Scholarship.
Smith, 55, became executive vice president of government affairs, general counsel, and corporate secretary at PepsiCo on May 5. She oversees a department with more than 500 employees, including 165 lawyers worldwide. Larry Thompson, the previous general counsel at the Purchase, New York–based company, retired to take a teaching position at the University of Georgia Law School.
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