Matt Smith is Senior Director of the PepsiCo Foundation, leading global strategy, partnerships and impact measurement.

Early in Matt’s career at PepsiCo, he helped co-found Food for Good, a social enterprise that utilizes PepsiCo’s unique capabilities to make healthy food accessible in low-income communities. Under Matt’s leadership, Food for Good has grown to serve communities all across the U.S., creating hundreds of jobs preparing and delivering more than 60 million nutritious meals since 2009.

Matt has brought principles learned from Food for Good – like prioritizing locally led design to deliver lasting impact – to the PepsiCo Foundation’s global strategy. The Foundation applies a community-centric approach, while leveraging PepsiCo’s vast capabilities as one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, to increase equitable access to nutritious food, safe water and economic opportunity in communities globally.

Matt is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and was a consultant for Deloitte prior to joining PepsiCo. Matt and his wife, Erica, have three children and he serves on the board for two nonprofit organizations in their neighborhood.