Beth Sauerhaft

Beth Sauerhaft serves as the Senior Manager for Environmental Stewardship in the North America Beverages division of PepsiCo. In this position, she works with franchise bottlers and across divisions at PepsiCo to reduce the impact of their activities on the environment including Carbon footprinting and water, energy and waste reduction, recycling and sustainable agriculture. Before joining PepsiCo in 2007, she worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency as the Deputy to the Agricultural Counselor for four years. In that position, she provided policy advice to the Agricultural Counselor, the Administrator and other EPA managers on a variety of agricultural issues cutting across functional responsibilities of the Agency. Prior to working at EPA, Beth worked at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for three years where she held national leadership responsibility for Atmospheric Resource Quality Management issues. Prior to that, she was a NRCS District Conservationist in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Beth earned a Ph.D. in Rangeland Ecology and Management from Texas A&M University with research in arid land agroforestry. She has a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University specializing in Natural Resource Ecology and a BA degree in American Studies from Grinnell College in Iowa Beth grew up in New York and now finds herself back in her home town of Chappaqua where she resides with her son, Einan.