Carol McCall is an industry product development professional with nearly 30 years of diversified technical/managerial product development experience.  Carol holds a PhD in food science from the University of California Davis, a Bachelor’s in food science from Penn State, and is a Certified Culinary Scientist through the Research Chef’s Association.  Her experience lies in leading high performing teams, new product development process and management, transformational innovation, consumer based product design, sensory evaluation and product commercialization.  She is also experienced in business stage gate processes to help manage project resources and apply the appropriate risk-rigor to projects.

Currently Research & Development Director in the Foods Category at PepsiCo, located in Plano Texas, Carol is leading a team developing transformational pipelines for the US Market to drive growth by delivering highly incremental innovation through new channels, occasions and for new consumer cohorts. She has a proven track record developing and commercializing across a broad range of foods platforms and brands including Lay’s, Ruffles, Tostitos, Quaker and Sabra.