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Daniel W. Bena
Elevator Sp
eech
✓ Core Approach: Head (intellect), Heart (empathy), Hands (work), &
Humanity (conscience)
✓ Inspired. “Glass half-full” optimist.
✓ Lifelong mentor and mentee.
✓ Sustainable development leader and PepsiCo pioneer.
✓ Internationally-recognized water steward. Co-created portfolio &
program which provided 9MM people access to safe water.
✓ Environmental activist.
✓ Youth advocate.
✓ Award-winning PepsiCo executive with social conscience.
✓ Dot connector who mobilizes social change through lasting
partnerships. Collaborator.
✓ Author of books, c-suite speeches, Congressional and
Parliamentary submissions.
✓ Keynote speaker. Social media influencer. Board member.
✓ Wife-, family-, and animal- lover.
Cell: +(914) 584-2591
Scan QR code“I found the silver lining.”
Imp
act
• Water stewardship and sustainable development expertise
• Writing for impact and clear, compelling messaging
• “Dot-connecting” for collective outcomes
• Creating & nurturing strategic, diverse, & collaborative partnerships
• Public speaking, brand-building, and ambassadorship
• Science-based corporate advocacy
• Scientific translation
• Story-telling to engage diverse audiences
• Securing organizational alignment
• Building global capability
• Mentoring and coaching toward a common vision
• Innovative & entrepreneurial thinking
• Family, friends, and humanity’s common connections
• Sustainable Development
• Social Investment and Immersive Philanthropy
• Corporate Conscience & Social Responsibility
• Water Stewardship, complex Climate Crises & Environmental Sustainability
• Inspiring, engaging, and equipping youth for success
• Brokering deep, lasting partnerships
• The power of the written and spoken word
• Created PepsiCo’s comprehensive Global Water Strategy
• Designed PepsiCo Foundation Water Strategy & Portfolio or partners
which provided 9MM+ people access to safe water
• Co-created PepsiCo’s policy to respect water as a human right, recognized
by shareholders, NGOs, & UN as a first for a multinational
• Worked with Sustainability Team to improve operational water use by 23%,
saving $17MM and approximately one billion absolute liters of water
• Authored 10,000+ pages of material for submission to India Parliament
• Testified to US Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power to help inform
future legislative focus and direction
• Managed pioneering public-private partnership with Penn State University
to develop innovative Student farm and Sustainable Food Systems minor
Po
rtable
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The PersonEngage ▲ Inspire ▲ Collaborate ▲ Advocate
• Four external water awards over four years
• PepsiCo Chairman’s Award (the company’s highest individual honor)
• Recognized as Sustainability Leader by Globescan
• “Global Goals/Local Leader” from UN Association
• Ranked among Top 500 CSR and Business Executives on Social Media
• Light Up the Night Award Honoree by Andrus Home for Children
• October 24th proclaimed Dan Bena Day in New York State
• Invited by President of UN General Assembly, the Royal Family of
Sweden, and the US Senate to deliver remarks in various venues
• Honorary Professor and Trustee for Glasgow Caledonian University
• Invited by Mayor to serve on Inaugural Sustainability Council for city
Reco
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Created PepsiCo Five-pillar Water Strategy:
(1) water efficiency improvement in our direct operations;
(2) extending conservation to our supply chain, particularly
agriculture;
(3) pursuing integrated watershed management;
(4) partnering to help provide community access to safe
water; and
(5) stewarding public water advocacy and engagement.
Jointly created inaugural PepsiCo Foundation
Strategy & Portfolio of Water Partners who, together,
helped surpass PepsiCo’s public goal by providing over
9MM people access to safe water.
Co-created and championed PepsiCo’s policy to
respect water as a human right, which continues to
garner external recognition from shareholders, NGOs, and
agencies of the United Nations, including the CEO Water
Mandate and the Independent Expert/Special Rapporteur
on Water and Sanitation as Human Rights.
Led or significantly contributed to PepsiCo’s receipt of
four external water awards over four years:
• Prestigious Stockholm Industry Water Award;
• US Water Prize;
• Notre Dame Global Corporate Adaptation Prize; and
• CECP Leadership Award for a strong portfolio of
partners which delivered 9MM people access to safe
water.
Co-designed and managed a novel 10-year partnership
with the Pennsylvania State University Sustainability
Institute to create a Sustainable Food Systems minor,
advance sustainable agricultural practices, and research
the behavior of recycling.
Worked with PepsiCo Environmental Sustainability Team
on strategies and solutions to improve operational water
use (by 23%, saving $17MM and about a billion absolute
liters of water).
Key Impacts
Served or currently serve:
• World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council (GAC) on
Water Security
• Steering Committee of the UN Global Compact CEO Water
Mandate (first to serve two years consecutively)
• Steering Board of the 2030 Water Resources Group of the
International Finance Corporation
• Water Leadership Group of the World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
• Advisory Council for the WBCSD Water Scenarios Project
• Advisory Council for the WBCSD Water Risk Tool
• Advisor, Environmental Leader Publications Group
• Board Member, Creative Visions Foundation
• Named “Action Figure in Sustainable Development”
by CircleofBlue.org
• Public Health Committee of the Safe Water Network
• Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER),
Water Board
• US Water Alliance Board
• Appointed Honorary Professor by Glasgow Caledonian
University (founded 100 years ago on the tenet of “for the
common good” and for which Nobel Laureate Mohammad
Yunus was Chancellor; now Annie Lennox); named Trustee of
their NY College
• Board of International Society of Beverage Technologists and
Chair of Emerging Scientific Interests Subcommittee
• Advisory Board to Artistic Circles (non-profit which produced the
Water Pressures documentary)
• Advisory Board, X-Prize for Water; asked by Dean Kamen to
participate in a visioning exercise/advisory context
• Advisory Board of Social Enterprise www.keela.co
• Advisor, SuperYou FUNdation (www.superyourfun.org)
• Advisory Board, Journal of Water Security, Elsevier
Vision , Strategy & Partnership
Through Board Service
Dear Mrs. Nooyi,
How are you? I hope this finds you well. It is an honor to reach out as you shared one my favorite talks from Aspen; I
loved your honesty and vulnerability in sharing how to lead in both personal and professional life (the story about your
daughter's class coffees was deeply honest- thank you for sharing). Thank you for being such a role model for millennial
leaders like me to emulate.
For the past eight years, I have been leading the Millennium Campus Network to train a new generation of global
development leaders on university campuses (story here). This journey has led us to meetings with President Obama
in the White House, hosting a global summit at UN Headquarters, and partnerships with some of the biggest
stakeholders in the world for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
On rare occasion, someone comes into my life that represents the bold refreshing leadership our world needs. In this
case, I wanted to write to you to acknowledge one of your colleagues, Mr. Dan Bena. I met Dan when we both
addressed an audience of 800 at the UN. In the last twelve months we've built out a fantastic friendship; he has shared
with me your vision with Performance with Purpose and a strategic pivot with $10 billion+ of your portfolio in especially
nutritious offerings.
What has also struck me is how proactive Dan has been in forging connections for us. After we brought together Dan,
Jeff Sachs, and more friends at the UN, Dan secured a keynote role for us at Jeff's summit at Columbia. He then
facilitated a fantastic meeting with Penn State, which is now considering joining our network alongside our current
members like Babson and Georgetown.
Over the years we've worked with partners at Microsoft, HP, Jenzabar, the UN, UN Foundation, and many others. I
haven't found anyone quite like Dan and view him as one of the best brand ambassadors in the private sector today;
and thankfully he is in a place to champion a bold vision of Performance with Purpose.
I wanted to write on the eve of Thanksgiving to share my thanks with you and PepsiCo for focusing not just how money
is allocated but also on a sustainable path to generate revenue. I told Dan I wanted to write PepsiCo and while I know
he never asks for acknowledgement, I feel very passionate about acknowledging how fantastic he has been for us at
the MCN.
If I can elaborate or be helpful in any capacity, please do reach out anytime. Thank you to you, Dan, and PepsiCo for
reminding me what leadership looks like.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sam
Sam Vaghar
Executive Director
Millennium Campus Network
617-794-4373
http://www.mcnpartners.org Sam Vaghar with President Obama
Brand Ambassador
Invited by H.E. Ambassador Sam Kutesa,
President of the UN General Assembly, to
address a High-Level panel of Member States at
The International Decade for Action “Water for
Life”: Progress achieved and lessons learned for
sustainable development - General Assembly,
High-level Interactive Dialogue.
Recognition
Honored to represent PepsiCo on the opening
panel in the UN General Assembly Hall about
"Youth Leadership and Global Development in the
21st Century." Joined by Ahmad Alhendawi, first-
ever UN Special Envoy for Youth and Ambassador
Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Founder, Global
Movement for The Culture of Peace and Former
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Audience was over 1,000 youth delegates from
over 100 countries.
“As always [Dan], I wish to thank you for your for
passion and commitment in relation to sustainability
generally, where you are indeed a champion, and the
Global Compact and CEO Water Mandate specifically.”
Gavin Power
Deputy Director
United Nations Global Compact
Named a “Global Goals Local Hero” by the United
Nations Association for advocacy to advance the
UN Sustainable Development Goals.
One of only four witnesses invited to testify about water and energy efficiency
before the US Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power, in Washington, DC.
Honored to represent PepsiCo, and thanks to Senator Jeanne Shaheen,
Subcommittee Chair.
Recognition
Named Honorary Professor for Glasgow
Caledonian University, a century-old institution
founded on the tenet of “for the common good,”
and for which Nobel Laureate, Mohammad Yunus,
was Chancellor (now singer/activist Annie Lennox).
Named Trustee for its New York College, 2017,
which houses the Fair Fashion Center.
Honored to have
October 24th,
named “Dan Bena
Day” in the State of
New York, by State
Senator Andrea
Stewart Cousins,
and in Westchester
County.
Recognition
“The Chairman's Award honors and
rewards those individuals and
teams who have distinguished
themselves as truly extraordinary and
are an inspiration to all of us.”
Recognition
Select Endorsements
“Dan Bena is an amazing leader and sustainability expert. He brings a
broad range of global connections, experience and practical
experience across companies, cultures and polices to direct strategy
development and issues management in the sustainability field. Dan
has led large teams of people, both directly and indirectly, in a position
of influence and senior counsel. He has an excellent reputation as a
leader and works collaboratively across large organizations with the
overall goal of achieving business results. Dan shapes the external
perception of the company to provide an interactive and mutually
beneficial dialogue with key external stakeholders to promote and
protect PepsiCo's corporate reputation. He is an exceptional company
ambassador who has mastered the gift of speaking, storytelling and
social media connections. He is able to translate complex ideas and
concepts into simple, easy to understand, memorable messages and
communication vehicles and has strong social influence in his own
right.”
“Dan is a change agent within PepsiCo, working behind the
scenes- and in some cases in the public eye- to move the
company forward. He is considered a global thought leader on
water issues, and on sustainability both inside and outside of
the organization. He understands the business case for
sustainability at PepsiCo and always works towards it. He has
great intelligence combined with great judgment. I recommend
Dan without reservations.”
Founding Partner
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Sustainability Practice
Julie Hamp
Former Chief
Communications Officer,
Toyota, NA
Former Chief
Communications Officer,
PepsiCo
“Of the many corporate leaders I have worked with I have seen few who
are as clear as to their personal and professional goals, and
demonstrate the ability to infuse others around them with the same
sense of purpose. Our interactions over the last 3 years have revealed
him to be an extremely thoughtful person, with unparalleled integrity and
commitment to seeing positive change in all aspects of sustainability. He
is sweet and mild, while being forceful and effective. He listens carefully,
and makes his points gently yet clearly….Dan has influenced leadership
inside and outside the company as to a model agenda for a global
company to serve its customers, as well as those who are unserved by
societal institutions, including the environment. The challenges of the
21st century focus on the faltering economy, but underlying that are long
term resource constraints related to water, energy and the environment.
Dan is well placed to lead any group that wants to think seriously about
these issues and move plans and thoughts into action.”
Professor Upmanu Lall
Director
Columbia Water
Center
Select Endorsements
Social Influencer
“Sustainarati”—Top Sustainability Executives on Social Media2016, 2017
• UN High-level Interactive Dialog to the Member States on Post-2015
Partnerships; United Nations March 30, 2015
• Panelist on Human Right to Water Panel with InterAmerican
Development Bank (IDB); SIWI and InterAmerican Development Bank
August 25, 2015
• Webinar: America's Failing Water Infrastructure; Department of State US
Water Partnership, Columbia Water Center, March 21, 2014
• Address at the Irish "Our Food, Our Future Summit"; September 26, 2013,
with the Prime Minister of Ireland and the Minister of Agriculture
• UN Water Triggering Action on Water for the Post-2015 Agenda;
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) September 1, 2013
• United Nations Youth Assembly Opening Panel; United Nations and
Friendship Ambassadors Foundation August 7, 2013
• Keynote Address at the Swedish Royal Gala; Swedish American
Chamber of Commerce November 7, 2011
• (Video Interview) Bonn 2011: The Water:Energy:Food Nexus; Federal
Government of Germany June 13, 2011
• US Senate Testimony; Committee on Water and Natural Resources;
Subcommittee on Water and Power July 25, 2012
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• World Food Prize 2014, Borlaug Dialogs; World Food Prize
• The Lawyer's Changing Role in Climate Adaptation; American Bar
Association March 21, 2013
• "Action Figures" in Sustainable Development; Circle of Blue July 15, 2012
• Keynote Address At Urban Water Sustainability Conference; US Water
Alliance October 16, 2012
• Unlocking Consumer Demand for the Provision of Safe Water; Safe Water
Network September 4, 2013
• (Opening Plenary Keynote) Industrial Water Reuse Symposium; Water
Reuse Association December 9, 2013
• (Keynote) “Performance with Purpose”: What is it, and how does PepsiCo
continue to embed it into its DNA? SustPACK 2015 April 2, 2015
• Panel Moderator for Safe Water Network Panel on the power of the
portfolio approach to the provision of safe water; SIWI and Safe Water
Network August 27, 2015
For brief compilation of examples, click here:
https://youtu.be/aFW1OM2tD9o
• Fair Fashion Center, Glasgow Caledonian NY College, guest lecture on
corporate conscience and the SDGs, 2017
• Pennsylvania State University: guest lectures to School of Agriculture, 2016
• Yale University: Yale International Relations Association; YIRA October 9,
2015
• Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business; Lecture to Net
Impact Champions class; December 2, 2015
• Judge, Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business—
Sustainability Case Competition; December 3, 2015
• Town Hall at Glasgow Caledonian University; GCU New York March 18,
2015
• Americas Water Conference at Columbia University; Columbia University
March 12, 2015; keynote
• UNC Nexus Conference: Food, Water, Climate, and Energy; Univ of North
Carolina Water Center March 6, 2014
• Rochester Institute of Technology Supply Chain Panel; July 30, 2013
• Interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation; Stanford Graduate School
of Business June 14, 2010
• Northwestern University Guest Lecture; Professor Ann Feldman April 15,
2009
• EPA Importance of Water to the US Economy; American University, invited
by USEPA Acting Ass’t Administrator, Nancy Stoner
• Bringing Sustainability into Management Decisions; Columbia University
March 2, 2011
• America's Water in a Global Context; Columbia University Earth Institute
March 25, 2013
• Inauguration of the Earth Institute's Agriculture and Food Security Center;
Columbia University Earth Institute September 10, 2013
• Columbia Social Enterprise Conference; Columbia University School of
Business October 31, 2014
• Making Sustainability Personal; Environmental Consortium of Colleges and
Universities April 17, 2015
• MIT Water Summit; Massachusetts Institute of Technology December 11,
2014
• Embedding the Base of the Pyramid into corporate strategy; BoP Summit
2015, University of Vermont June 16, 2015
Public Speaking & AdvocacyA
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For an abridged example of a recent guest lecture, click here:
https://youtu.be/yeLlIKsWB04
Public Speaking & Advocacy
• When the Well Runs Dry: The Currency of Water; Forbes September
12, 2014
• Protecting the Future; Guardian Food Hub June 10, 2014
• (Radio Interview) Connecting the Dots for Sustainability
• World Resources Report: A New Collaborative Era; World Resources
Report March 1, 2011
• (Book/e-book) Sustain-Ability: How a corporate conscience helps
business sustain the ability to win, AuthorHouse November 1, 2011
• The Changing Face of Water Stewardship: It's Not About Philanthropy
Anymore; New Food Magazine Europe May 1, 2012
• Interview with Ethisphere about corporate ethics; Ethisphere
September 27, 2011
• Shell Innovation Summit; Royal Dutch Shell January 9, 2013
• (Blog) Leadership Blogs for PepsiCo; PepsiCo, Inc. March 22, 2012
• Integrated Watershed Management Panel at SRI 2012 Conference;
SRI of the Rockies Conference October 25, 2012
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