Ramon is currently the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo. He is the sixth CEO in the company's history. Before joining PepsiCo he worked at Chupa Chups, a candy company based in Spain known for its lollipops. Laguarta was named president of PepsiCo in December 2017.
He was born on 1963 in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from ESADE Business School in Barcelona in 1985. In 1986 he received a master's in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.